Federal judges deny stay to state in gerrymandering case

[brooklynite]

Source: Columbus Dispatch

A three-judge federal court panel on Thursday rejected the state’s request for a stay of an order to draw a new congressional map by June 14 to replace the unconstitutional map crafted by ruling Republicans and in use since 2012.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, a Republican, had asked the court to stay its order by Friday, arguing the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule by June 30 on gerrymandering cases that could uphold Ohio’s map as legal or set out new standards that could make efforts to quickly redesign the 2012 map moot.

The judges on U.S. District Court in Cincinnati were unpersuaded.

“No new arguments persuade the court that a stay is now warranted,” the judges wrote in rejecting the stay, saying the state “attempt(s) to relitigate the merits of the case in these motions and avoid the court’s finding and conclusion that the current map is unconstitutional and has thus harmed voters.”

Read more: https://www.dispatch.com/news/20190509/federal-judges-deny-stay-to-state-in-gerrymandering-case

[Ohiogal]

1. Yay for the judges!

Our federal courts come through for us again!

[LakeArenal]

6. Yay for Ohio.

One step, one state at a time.

[NCjack]

2. GOP will find a way to erode the time such there will not be enough time

to prepare a new map. Solution: the judge should start a nonpartisan group to begin preparing a new map now.

[Greybnk48]

3. I wonder if Wisconsin will ever get a clean election.

I don't hear anything about changes to our crooked map.

[LakeArenal]

7. Last I heard they appealed and rigged courts complied

We sure are screwed here on that.

Haven’t heard much from Evers regarding either.

[Fritz Walter]

4. Here's a suggestion, Buckeye

Ask the League of Women Voters to help. They know a thing or three about fairness in elections.

Useless nut!

[angrychair]

5. Given the current environment

How much longer do we think it will be before Republicans start ignoring rulings like this and just doing whatever they want?

I'm betting it will start happening before the year is out.

When it comes right down to it what can they really do? No is actually going to get arrested or anything.

Really, it their minds, why have elections at all. I mean some ppl like us may whine and cry but make a few of us disappear and everyone else will fall in line.
Americans dont have the guts or intelligence to actually care more than crying about it in Twitter or something.