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Jennifer Calfas at Time
http://time.com/4968285/john-mccain-sheldon-whitehouse-gerrymandering-supreme-court/
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Sens. John McCain and Sheldon Whitehouse doubled down on their bipartisan effort encouraging the U.S. Supreme Court to create a new standard for determining the constitutionality of partisan gerrymandering.
The Republican and Democratic senators reaffirmed their efforts Tuesday as the highest court in the U.S. heard oral arguments for a key case that could determine the future of partisan gerrymandering in the U.S. Gerrymandering is the drawing of electoral district lines to favor typically the party in power.
The Court can clean up a cause of Americas crisis in confidence in our democracy, protect our elections from wildly partisan bulk gerrymandering, and return control of our elections to the people," McCain and Whitehouse said in a joint statement on Tuesday. "We hope the Court will."
The case, Gill v. Whitford, comes from Democrats in Wisconsin who believe boundaries created in the state were made to benefit Republicans, which the Democrats argue is unconstitutional. In the past, the Supreme Court created a standard to assess whether race was used too much in the remapping of districts. However, the court has not yet created a standard to assess the same issue in its relation to partisan politics.
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applegrove
(118,778 posts)catbyte
(34,451 posts)looking at his legacy & is probably pretty ashamed at what he's done an enabled for the last 10 years or so. It might just be damage control, but I hope he's starting to try to right a lot of wrongs he supported. Maybe I'm giving him too much credit because he's been a real bastard for decades, but I don't get the same "soulless" vibe from him that I get from Ryan, McConnell, 45, & a host of other Republicans, and I've got a pretty good detector for things like that.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)I am grateful he voted no on ACA repeal, but don't forget he is the reason Sarah Palin is relevant (?) today
JI7
(89,264 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)With a fix the SCOTUS noted. Got his maverick credentials without having to get any meaningful legislation actually into law
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)their inner human beings. If the bar is that high, nothing will convince any Republicans to change their political opinions short of a near death experience. In the unlikely event of volunteers to perform that public service, we're stuck with the rest of them until such time as we can elect more Dems.
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)more than ever, on gun rights!?
Steve Scalise: The Massacre In Las Vegas Only Fortified My Opposition To Gun Control
Fox Newss Martha MacCallum asked Rep. Steve Scalise in an interview to be aired later Tuesday if his experience and the deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas on Sunday night have changed his views about the Constitutions Second Amendment. I think its fortified it, Scalise said.
Because first of all youve got to recognize that when theres a tragedy like this, the first thing we should be thinking about is praying for the people who were injured and doing whatever we can to help them, to help law enforcement. We shouldnt first be thinking of promoting our political agenda, Scalise said.
mountain grammy
(26,650 posts)as is McCain, with just a tiny crack. He says it didn't bother him what dump said, but it did.
dlk
(11,576 posts)mountain grammy
(26,650 posts)Hekate
(90,793 posts)C Moon
(12,221 posts)and he doesn't want to be remembered as a traitor.
I wonder if he was one of those who looked the other way.
It's time for those who know, to come forward.