Democracy is going from the USA
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North Carolina’s gerrymander is about to become even more extreme and unrepresentative:
“It would take an absolute blowout, over 7 percentage points in the statewide popular vote, for Democrats to even get half of the state’s congressional delegation.” https://t.co/RRb2F4CZUK pic.twitter.com/eJdxJbr2gT— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) November 10, 2021
Needless to say, this is also a huge disenfranchisement of Black voters, a long-beloved North Carolina tradition.
As far as anti-democratic Roberts Court decisions go, Rucho is much worse than Citizens United. Much, much worse. The only real question is whether it’s even worse than Shelby County.
Speaking of which, today Utah’s governor used the same world-historically specious reasoning used by Frankfurter in Colegrove and Roberts in Ruccho:
Utah’s @GovCox says he won’t veto aggressive GOP gerrymander bc if voters want to stop this they can vote accordingly.
Utahns voted for redistricting reform in a referendum!
that lawmakers then gutted before gerrymandering!
lawmakers who’re gerrymandering their own districts! https://t.co/pugpZ7RInK— Taniel (@Taniel) November 10, 2021
If you don’t like gerrymandering, just petition the representatives you don’t have because you’ve been disenfranchised! I see no flaws in this reasoning.