{"id":135784,"date":"2018-01-09T22:46:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T05:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135784"},"modified":"2018-01-10T00:15:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T07:15:54","slug":"first-time-federal-ruling-partisan-gerrymandering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/09\/first-time-federal-ruling-partisan-gerrymandering.html","title":{"rendered":"A first-time federal ruling against partisan gerrymandering"},"content":{"rendered":"

And I say huzzah.<\/p>\n

Gerrymandering — by any political party to achieve and sustain its staying in power — is anti-democratic and wrong. That’s true whichever party is doing it<\/i> (though at present most challenges are against the GOP, who were most recently in a position to game the system after their 2010 midterm victories), and I am perfectly happy to see court decisions and legislation that block the practice by anyone, even the party I vote for most often.<\/p>\n

If you can’t win without stacking the deck in your favor, then you don’t deserve to win. The fundamental principle of voting is that we all<\/i> have a say in determining our elected representatives; when that principle is violated with no more reason than “We want our side to win,” it’s an attack on everyone.<\/i><\/p>\n


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\nNorth Carolina’s Novel Anti-Partisan-Gerrymander Ruling – The Atlantic<\/a><\/span>
\nJudges said redistricting designed to elect Republicans violated the Constitution, the first time a federal court has come to that conclusion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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And I say huzzah. Gerrymandering — by any political party to achieve and sustain its staying in power — is anti-democratic and wrong. That’s true whichever party is doing it (though at present most challenges are against the GOP, who were most recently in a position to game the system after their 2010 midterm victories), … Continue reading “A first-time federal ruling against partisan gerrymandering”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,1140,358,740,347],"tags":[125],"class_list":["post-135784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2018","category-poor-citizenship","category-race-racism","category-voting-rights","tag-gop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/unnamed-43.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134916,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/04\/will-supreme-court-gerrymandering.html","url_meta":{"origin":135784,"position":0},"title":"What will the Supreme Court do about gerrymandering?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 4-Oct-17 8:02am","format":false,"excerpt":"Everyone, even the staunchest conservatives on the court, admit that gerrymandering -- the political party in power drawing district lines to favor their party's future electoral success\u00a0-- is distasteful and hampers democracy. 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