Friday, June 28, 2019

The Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court is blind and deaf


Map source:  govtrack

Reported in Supreme Court Bars Challenges to Partisan Gerrymandering.  (The New York Times, 6/27/2019)


Related reading:
What’s Stronger Than a Blue Wave? Gerrymandered Districts.  (The New York Times, 11/29/2019)
In a year in which Democrats picked up as many as 41 House seats elsewhere, including in places as conservative as Oklahoma and Utah, they appeared to lose all three of their targets for pickups in one of the nation’s most closely divided states. Democrats in North Carolina earned 48.3 percent of the total vote cast in House races but appeared to win only three seats; Republicans had 50.4 percent of the vote and won at least nine seats.

Related posts:
UPDATE. The art of the Ohio GOP gerrymander: Climate deniers get their own district.  (5/7/2019)
Which begs the question, how many GOP voters are naturally dispersed across the head of a penis?  (1/9/2019)
Transparency is not a word in Robin Vos's vocabulary.  (1/1/2019)
Broken record: The WIGOP gerrymander messaging of power-mad Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.  (12/2/2018)
Rhetorical question posed in election article headline.  (11/9/2018)
UPDATE. Say goodbye to Goofy kicking Donald Duck, Pennsylvania's wildly gerrymandered 7th congressional district.  (3/20/2018)
In a close vote, male-dominated Columbia County Board of Supervisors endorses gerrymandering of state and congressional legislative districts.  (1/22/2018)
Suitable for framing: The art of the North Carolina gerrymanders.  (1/12/2018)
Wisconsin redistricting: Judges saw evidence, reached obvious conclusion, part 1.  (1/28/2017)
Wisconsin redistricting: Judges saw evidence, reached obvious conclusion, part 2.  (1/28/2017)
Wisconsin redistricting: Judges saw evidence, reached obvious conclusion, part 3.  (1/28/2017)

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