Judges say throw out the map. Lawmakers say throw out the judges.
Judges say throw out the map. Lawmakers say throw out the judges.
- February 14, 2018
- Bernie Grofman, poli sci, via The New York Times, Feb. 14, 2018
“This is Trumpism at the lower level,” said Bernard Grofman, an elections expert at
the University of California, Irvine who redrew Virginia’s congressional map in 2015
following a federal court finding that districts had been racially gerrymandered.
“This is the view that if independent branches of government say things that don’t
match what you say or do, you fire them; you impeach them; you malign them; you destroy
them as best you can.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/14/us/pennsylvania-gerrymandering-courts.html.
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