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It doesn’t seem to me likely this Supreme Court is going to say ‘go draw more Black districts in the south,’.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
State courts have proven to be surprisingly fertile territory for this, courts in both Republican states and Democratic states have been willing to strike down maps from the party in charge.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
But in a world where Democrats have sole control of the process, the Democrats have an incentive to vote down the commission maps.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Read MoreOn the flip side is sort of like the poster child for like the worst of all worlds.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Ohio's reforms were designed for the assumption that Read MoreOn the flip side was Read MoreOn the flip side, and Read MoreOn the flip side just isn't anymore, and now Republicans are like,' Well, we'll pass a map. It's only good for four years, and then we'll redraw the map in four years. We don't have a problem with that.'.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Sometimes you can overthink these things, and you can design things like for a world that just doesn't exist anymore, because politics change.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
In California, a list is prepared of qualified people and lawmakers get a certain number of strikes, similar to jury strikes, so, the California system is very hard to game.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Republicans are in a mood where they want to throw mud at the wall.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
But as places like Gwinnett County get more diverse, communities of color are starting to challenge for power, and that threatens the status quo, people are asking for a seat at the table, and that worries some of the people who are at the table right now.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The fact that this gerrymander is achieved at the expense of people of color is not surprising.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
They're doing to the suburbs now what they used to do to Austin or big cities. That tells you where Texas Republicans are -- that Texas Republicans really need to use the rural areas to neutralize the suburbs, in a lot of ways, it's a replay of the battles that have been going on for the last couple of decades, since Texas Republicans gained control of redistricting. The one variant is White voters in the suburbs.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's the million-dollar question, map makers tend to be nothing if not cautious and the cautious thing to do is to assume that the changes that work against you or Republican Party are permanent, while the changes that work in your favor are temporary.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
( In South Florida) the problem with white Democrats is they tend to live near white Republicans, sometimes in the same house, so unless you're gerrymandering down somebody's bed... South Florida's really hard to gerrymander white Democrats when there aren't that many of them, south Florida's much more efficient because of residential segregation to target communities of color. And so you really can't politically gerrymander in South Florida without targeting communities of color, which gets you right into race based claims.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The Constitution requires counting everyone -- children, immigrants, everyone -- The Constitution doesn't have exclusions based on legal status.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's something that people around the country are going to be watching.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
There's a lot more sunshine on the process, it doesn't mean you'll win every time, but it means you'll have a fight.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
When a single party has control of the process, the maps are less fair.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
It would be the equivalent of a tsunami, democrats would have to win larger than any sort of recent midterm wave — almost double what they got in 2006 — in order to win a narrow majority.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
This case could cause a nationwide upheaval in state legislatures.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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