so much for THAT clause...

[acroyear]

get ready for it - every even year, a congressional election; every ODD year, a congressional redistricting.

Comments

[thatliardiego.livejournal.com]

Now boy, wasn't THAT a surprise...

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

bleh. Maybe we can get some sort of grassroots thing going making there be a specified ratio of area to boundary length below which they can't go, or insist on lower resolution in the voter maps.

[mandrakan.livejournal.com]

Annoyingly, it's probably right. Just one of a dozen or so naked power grabs that the Constitution doesn't prohibit because the Framers really weren't that devious.

[scaleslea.livejournal.com]

I thought there were laws against gerrymandering your districts.

Doc

[mandrakan.livejournal.com]

There are laws against gerrymandering districts based on race. Gerrymanders based on politics and partisanship, however, are completely legal.[1]

[1] For now, at least. There are four Supreme Court Justices who think that there are limits to how egregiously you can gerrymander a district, and one (Kennedy), who thinks there are limits, but can't articulate them and therefore refuses to impose any.