(January 10, 2018 at 12:13 am)Minimalist Wrote: Well fuck. What's the point of winning if you can't oppress people!
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/gerryma...itutional/
Quote:Gerrymandered North Carolina congressional districts drawn by Republicans ruled unconstitutional
Quote:The judges — James A. Wynn, a Barack Obama appointee to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and federal District Judges W. Earl Britt, a Jimmy Carter appointee, and William L. Osteen Jr., a George W. Bush appointee — were unanimous that North Carolina lawmakers under Republican leadership violated the Constitution's equal-protection clause when they drew maps explicitly to favor their party.
"On its most fundamental level, partisan gerrymandering violates 'the core principle of republican government ... that the voters should choose their representatives, not the other way around,'" the majority opinion states.
Republicunts never see it that way, your honors.
I live here. And I moved here in 05. I knew something was up after Obama won the first time, when in the 08 election my poling place was diverse as hell. But after he won the first time in 10 seemed like all the black people were not there, and even his second run far less, at the same polling place. Now when I go I see nothing but white people.
It was fishy as hell. I know even with white liberals, we have a bad history of not showing up in midterms, but the difference from year to year was striking. I lived in Northern Va when I first started voting, and never did that mix change. Shit, even in Lynchburg it seemed more even, and that was Fuckwell's city.
