Wait for the SCOTUS decision.
Do you have any opinion about how the Justices are going to rule?
Justice Kagan has made remarks showing that she is against the practice of partisan gerrymandering.
I’m not just talking about the courts. How many liberals want to see Maryland lose three or so democratic seats? All in the name of correcting gerrymandering?
I’d love to see an answer to that on here.
The only people in favor of partisan gerrymandering are partisan hacks. Real Americans want the practice to end full stop.
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That’s my point. That’s who is in power in Maryland. They’re not going to change their behavior.
They will be forced to if the SCOTUS makes them.
Do you have any opinion on how the individual Justices are going to rule?
Justice Kagan has said she’s against the practice.
It is “so dramatically wrong … to leave all this to professional politicians” who rig the outcomes, said Justice Elena Kagan.
It would be interesting if Kavanaugh makes the deciding vote. He lives in Maryland. He said at one point, “The 7-1 is a problem. The 5-3 is almost certainly not a problem, which I think has got to be right … because it’s close to the proportion of Democrats and Republicans in the state.”
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Except they’re not in any meaningful way. But please continue to complain about the speck in Dems’ eyes while ignoring the giant plank in the GOPs’.
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Ahh, so Maryland’s doesn’t matter. Got it.
Nobody is saying that except you. That should be the lesson learned by creating this thread.
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That will never happen, 5-3. I guarantee that.
We’ll see. Kavanaugh seems to think 5-3 would be good while 7-1 isn’t.
You keep ignoring my question about how you think the individual Justices are going to rule on the Maryland case. Why are you doing that? Right now all we can do is wait for their decision.
I don’t know what they’re thinking. I can’t read their minds. I know we won’t see anything in Maryland comparable to what happened in PA when the democrats easily flipped 5 republican seats and weakened every single republican district in the state.
People have reached agreement in this thread but some still feel the need to argue…
Interesting microcosm of American Politics.
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The MD attorney general has appealed every decision and defended the gerrymander fully.
Why would I believe that people in Maryland or Maryland Democrats want anything to change?
You don’t know anything, because as you pointed out you can’t read the SCOTUS’s minds. I guess we’re going to have to wait to see how they rule before we know what’s going to happen in Maryland.
I predict Kavanaugh will side with the liberal Justices against Maryland’s partisan gerrymandering.
Screw that guy.
They’re going to be forced to. Welcome to the future.
Then don’t believe.
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And then the entrenched Maryland Democrats get to decide the new maps. See where I’m going with this? Nothing will change.
Odds are the SCOTUS will have lower courts create new maps. Maybe a nonpartisan committee, like California has.
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I’ll believe they’ll be forced to when I see it.
The decision is expected before late June. Try to bump this thread when that happens. It’s not going to be that long.
Hell, i’ll probably bump the thread if I remember.
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I have a feeling this thread didn’t go as expected.
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