Very important news

Huge deal in Pennsylvania today.  Link to a story about the new congressional map drawn by the courts after they struck down gerrymandering.  in a state that's currently about a 50/50 split of Dems and Repubs, the GOP holds currently 13 of the 18 House seats, which is complete and utter bullshit.  The general belief is that after the redraw it's probably a 10-8 GOP advantage based on the voting in 2016, which may be a bit different in 2018, i.e. perhaps a 9-9 split.  Regardless, this makes a hell of a lot more sense and at least seems more democratic than the prior map.  Would love to see SCOTUS do this to the rest of the country.  They won't, because the court is a Republican court right now, but maybe some kind of miracle will happen with Kennedy leaning away from gerrymandering.  The way the case went on argument day seemed to imply that Kennedy was ok with it, so don't hold your breath.  

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/19/pennsylvania-redistrict-democrats-midterms-354432

Are you insinuating that the Supreme Court isn't fair and balanced??? 

cream919 wrote:Are you insinuating that the Supreme Court isn't fair and balanced??? 

Maybe.  Probably not balanced.  Who are we to claim if they're fair?  They are the supposed experts.  Saw today that there's new evidence that Thomas lied during his confirmation hearing, although I don't know what that evidence is.

sharpy wrote:I kind of believe Roberts and Kennedy tend to do what is right and not completely right or left winged biased. But who knows?

I somewhat think that, too.  Alito, Gorsuch and Thomas seem like they are lockstep with the far right.  Some are lockstep with the left, too.  I've always just accepted this as a part of life until they blocked Garland, which really just served to shine a spotlight on the politicization of the court, instead of just allowing it to be what it is.