Idiot Rep, Glenn Grothman, Teabagger, defends gerrymandering...
He is as stupid as Trump
Jun 21
Congressman offers a rousing defense of gerrymandering
https://thinkprogress.org/glenn-grothman-gerrymandering-scotus-case-b1821c4e5ee2
“I’m not sure there should be any restrictions whatsoever.”
House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. administers the House oath of office to Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-Wis., during a mock swearing in ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017. CREDIT: AP Photo/Zach Gibson
On Monday, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear Gill v. Whitford, a Wisconsin-based case that is the most promising challenge to partisan gerrymandering to come up through the courts in over a decade.
Wisconsin Rep. Glenn Grothman (R) responded to the news by arguing there shouldn’t be any rules around how political parties draw district lines at all.
“I’m not sure there should be any restrictions whatsoever, because I don’t think it is the court’s business to draw lines,” Grothman told Matt Kittle of the conservative MacIver Institute in a Tuesday radio interview. “There are many rules right now — that the courts have laid out — that if you want your redistricting map approved you have to meet.”
You can listen to his remarks here, starting around 12:00:
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Partisan gerrymandering, by contrast — which is when a majority political party redraws the lines of the district maps to make it easier for them to win their next elections — is a murkier legal area: In a 1986 case, the Supreme Court held that partisan gerrymandering could be found unconstitutional, but didn’t specify how the courts could determine what was a constitutional redistricting and what was an unconstitutional gerrymander..........................
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He's my congressman. 