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pat_k

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4. It's a question of PARTISAN GERRYMANDERING. Something the five black-robbed men on the court in 2019 treasonously ruled
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 09:05 PM
Friday

... was "non-justiciable" under federal law.

In Rucho v. Common Cause (2019), Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh declared that challenges to a partisan gerrymandered map are "non-justiciable" at the federal level. In other words, the Federal courts can't weigh in on claims of partisan gerrymandering.

The sane voices of dissent to the horrible decision, Kagan, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Sotomayor, argued, correctly, that the majority abandoned the Court's duty to protect democracy, asserting that federal courts could and should address partisan gerrymandering because it undermines fair elections and equal participation, with some lower courts already developing workable standards to evaluate these harmful practices. They contended the majority's refusal to act would encourage more extreme polarization and that modern technology makes gerrymandering more precise and damaging than ever.

Rucho v. Common Cause is another of the horrific decisions that must be reversed if we are to have a hope in hell of effecting change for the better.


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