This Ridiculous GOP Gerrymander Could Give Democrats a Better Crack at Winning the House
Creed’s Seafood and Steaks in King-of-Prussia, Pennsylvania, looks like any other restaurant tucked up against a highway intersection, a place for diners in the Philadelphia exurbs to drive for a chop and a couple of glasses of wine.
But it also happens to be a significant piece of Pennsylvania’s political geography—and part of the reason Republican control of Congress could, despite the GOP’s troubles, be hard for Democrats to break in 2018. The state’s 7th congressional district, whose convoluted shape has been likened to a drawing of Goofy kicking Donald Duck, snakes through a bottleneck as narrow as the restaurant and its parking lot, forming a tiny land bridge that connects pools of mostly Republican voters.
On Monday, Pennsylvania’s appellate Commonwealth Court will begin hearing a now fast-tracked case that could invalidate the 2011 map that created the 7th District and the state’s 17 other congressional districts. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has ordered the lower court to issue, by year’s end, a ruling on whether the map is an unconstitutional gerrymander, holding open the possibility that all the state’s districts could be redrawn before the 2018 midterm elections.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/12/this-ridiculous-gop-gerrymander-could-give-democrats-a-better-shot-at-the-house/
For those that haven't read the book RATF*CKED: The True Story Behind The Secret Plan To Steal America's Democracy, By David Daley
It was an eye opener to say the least
Now the right wing republicans are going for a lawsuit in Maryland to gerrymandering, which has John Delaney Democrat Maryland 6th District as that lawsuit
All of this make be moot depending on what the right wing U.S. Supreme court does it the lawsuit coming out of Wisconsin------------------
I'm not holding my breath that this rigged court will side with voters, after all they gutted the Civil Rights Act of 1965 , lead by John Roberts
