Gerrymandering is a legal practice, it's just seen as a douchey thing to do. It's harder to accomplish in a purple state, but Florida is no longer a battleground state. The GOP could accomplish this with Georgia and Ohio as well. Democrats always gerrymander their own states, so - as you said - there's nowhere else for them to go with the practice.
But she brat, and that's what really matters.
From what I read it was a temporary stay to preserve the status quo and allow for more briefing.
Not exactly there Johnny, gerrymandering has been around for a long long time. The only thing that has changed lately is the GOP actually seems to want to fight back a little bit.
I was thinking in the contemporary context when I wrote the post, but it's worth pointing out that the practice is old as shit.
I thought it was declared illegal and they had to postpone some early elections to redraw it? Or was that a different State?
In Virgina the issue is that they went about the whole referendum and re-drawing thing in a way which was patently illegal, so the entire vote is invalid.
They just stayed the ruling to give things a chance to play out while the case is heard. They didn’t make a ruling. That will take months.
Grilling time
A State Judge declared it Illegal about 7 different ways and the VA SC did not let them ratify the vote. So right now in VA it is in a holding pattern with the current map being the law of the land. We need to see what 7 VA SC Judges decided. And even then there are a couple more ways to sure over this (I believe there is a court case ongoing about the language of the vote).
Also Heavy blue states have already Gerrymandered themselves to all hell and The GOPe never really responded in kind. I don't think the Democrats really want the GOP to start playing this game in the democrats do, I would love to just see a single district in Texas that consists of all the big cities connected along the thinnest thread possible.
Didn't the VA SC strike down similar rulings from the same judge twice already?
I can relate, I've had my own politics prediction effort posts in the past.
My post was pointing out that everything said about Biden also applies to Trump.
"If you don't support the pants shitting pedo and more endless desert wars you're a dumbocrat!"
Sure are a lot of things happening post-Bondi.
I mean, yeah, it's inherently bullshit. I think we should fuck them hard for an election cycle or two, and dangle some sort of changes of having it drawn by some computer or something to make it more "fair"