ahh you are correct, im clearly too far from my civics courses.

after reading tho i wonder a few things:



this seems incredibly pertinent in DC given federal holdings



im not familiar with what the local govt landscape in DC is like and how drafting this would work.

also seems like a large number of people wouldnt get votes as they vote in their home districts, clerks, politicians, staffers, etc.



i can only imagine how politicized of a circus the hearings on that would be lol.

The most important takeaway I got from reading about this process is that it would take quite some time. I doubt that Democrats could ram it through before the 2022 midterms when Republicans have a shot at taking back the Senate.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Oct 27 2020 10:34am

i agree, especially with how long deliberations take to start and then take to finish these days.

If Democrats were smart, they’d use the 6-3 court against Republicans.

With the amount of seats expected to be gained this year in local/state elections, Democrats should focus the next 4-6 years on extreme gerrymandering and other GOP Tea Party-esque ideas. If the GOP sues, try to push it up to the Supreme Court. If the Court comes down against it, then the GOP lost one of its only ways of maintaining power in advance of demographic changes and the ultra-liberal/activist Gen Z. If not, then Democrats gerrymandered a billion fafillion districts to their demographics... win-win. Obviously not moral, but look at what the GOP is willing to do (Trump) for power. This is significantly less of an evil to root out fascism.

This same logic could apply to voting, too. Just pass some bullshit voting restrictions in some places, but tinge them to repress GOP voters, and wait for the Courts to knock it down.

This post was edited by Interesting on Oct 27 2020 10:42am

You wrongly assume that the courts couldnt find judicial justifications for striking down the Dem gerrymanders/voting rights laws while leaving the door open for Republicans to pass similar stuff based on a slightly different legal basis later on.
You also assume that the partisan 6-3 GOP court would not be willing to contradict its own earlier rulings out of partisan motives. It is likely that the court would show this kind of self-restrain and integrity, but there's no guarantee for that, so it's not a trivial assumption to make.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Oct 27 2020 10:49am

Perhaps you’re right. I definitely fear for our country in 10-20 years when the shift left occurs and the old, white, conservative court striketh down everything. It will not be a good situation.

Every liberal city in a red state should be its own state with two senators so they have representation.

> implying Mother Jones is journalism.

nn to be redundant

Is the info true or false? That's literally the only relevant thing. It doesn't matter if it came from 9gag if it's factually true.