American Thinker: In a repeat of the state’s extraordinary role in the 2016 presidential election, this year, Pennsylvania will be the center of a serious constitutional challenge.
At stake may be the entire congressional balance of power between Democrats and Republicans. Democrats in PA are attempting to do through the courts what they were not able to do at the ballot box. They are assuming that the woes of their cause are due to redistricting, not to failed policies repudiated by the electorate.
Trump’s stunning statewide victory in Pennsylvania in 2016 had absolutely nothing to do with gerrymandering.
As background, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in 2018 ruled that the 2012 redistricting of Pennsylvania’s congressional districts was unconstitutional. The Court gave the legislature until February 9 to submit a plan of redistricting to the governor for approval. The governor would then have until February 15 to accept or reject the map.
The governor has rejected the map, and in its decision, the Supreme Court reserved the right to draw the boundaries of redistricting of its own accord or to select one of many competing plans.
Currently, Pennsylvania is represented by 13 Republicans and five Democrats. The governor’s perspective is that it is “fairer” to have approximately equal representation of Democrats and Republicans despite extreme “clustering” of Democrats in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and other cities. The commonwealth has been known for decades to have a very conservative “T” region in which only the anchor cities in the Southeast and Southwest provide traditionally solid support for a liberal agenda. read more
The AP story in this was as biased a story as I have ever read. The law says the state legislature creates the districts, NOT the state Supreme Court ( which is democrat dominated). Once again the Dems are using the courts to steal what they couldn’t win legitimately.
The legislature and governor by law have the power to draw districts. Should be a no brainer but, I remember James Comey rattling off all Hillary’s wrongdoing at a press conference and thinking she was toast.
Judicial Collusion.
They’re trying this shit all over the country, and that useless f–k Eric Holder is running all over the place spreading his usual poison.
Is there any reason that the “districts” couldn’t be based on something different than physical address? Each state has a certain number of congressmen according to their population. Then the population is divided among those congressmen by alphabetical or some other means. That way, each congressman’s “district” are those citizens no matter their color or policies.
I know the constitution must say something about this, but my copy is still in storage. Dang, gotta get a house soon so my life can go back to ‘normal’. hehe
Oh, CONGRESSMEN. If you would prefer not to be offended: congresspeeps.
The conservative “T” portions of PA are well populated with deer hunters who know the law, which includes the 2nd Amendment.
IF the lawyers, including the ones wearing robes over their girly undergarments, decide to subvert the law re gerimandering, I hope these citizens assert their God-given right to object to that usurpation, as has been done before, quite nobly, in American history.
http://www.showbiz411.com/2018/02/20/george-clooney-and-wife-amal-donating-500000-to-march-for-our-lives-and-will-be-there
“It is also likely that there will be a move to impeach the justices engaged in redistricting without the legislature’s approval.”
So be it. Dems will stop at nothing to retain power, including violating the Constitution and disregarding the will of the people. Throw ’em out.
Bulldozing Philthy would fix a LOT of our problems. City Hall in Pittsburgh can be next. 😡
Tar, feathers, rope, tree. Assembly required.
@Anon ~ the last time those Pennsyltuckian ‘Deer Hunters’ went against the State it didn’t fare too well ….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion
@Molon Lave, never confuse a defeat with a final defeat.
“The Whiskey Rebellion demonstrated that the new national government had the will and ability to suppress violent resistance to its laws, though the whiskey excise remained difficult to collect. The events contributed to the formation of political parties in the United States, a process already underway. The whiskey tax was repealed in the early 1800s during the Jefferson administration.”
@grnberet February 20, 2018 at 3:27 pm
We already paid for, paid for installation of, and are still paying for maintenance of, all those conveniently located, endlessly replicated, lampposts. So let’s “put out for bids” (subject to established familial and campaign contributor rules of participation) for new, single use, suspension devices.
@Bob February 20, 2018 at 12:37 pm
> Clooney– thanks to the sale of his Casamigas Tequila company for $1 billion– now has the money to put behind causes he and Amal believe in.
> George and Amal’s appearance at March for Our Lives will be key to this movement. He won’t be speaking, however: his rep says only “kids” will be speaking at this event, no adults.
Wasn’t there some recent action about sizing the assets of those involved in child exploitation?