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In It to Win It

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4. The republican strategy appears to be to run out the clock

Reply to SoonerPride (Reply #2)

Wed Apr 27, 2022, 03:00 PM

Apr 2022

Step 1: Spend time creating another partisan map that the state court will likely strike down again

Step 2: Spend time defending the new very-gerrymandered map likely ending in the same result

Step 3: Go to the US district court and say we won’t be able to make a map fast enough and we have to use the map already passed into law by the legislature or else it will severely negatively impact the citizens right to vote.

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BREAKING: New York's highest court strikes down congressional & state Senate maps [View all] In It to Win It Apr 2022 OP

Wow that's Tickle Apr 2022 #1

Appeal to SCOTUS who says gerrymandering is OK SoonerPride Apr 2022 #2

SC is unlikely to take the case. former9thward Apr 2022 #3

yup, SCOTUS has said before they won't get involved in state maps Amishman Apr 2022 #5

Didn't they intervene over Wisconsin though? Bettie Apr 2022 #10

My memory on the details are fuzzy but I believe their intervention was due to a In It to Win It Apr 2022 #11

The republican strategy appears to be to run out the clock In It to Win It Apr 2022 #4

No; Court appointed Special Master will do all maps at this point. brooklynite Apr 2022 #6

Just keep SI the way it's been for years n/t Polybius Apr 2022 #17

You can't brooklynite Apr 2022 #18

Holy shit we are screwed budkin Apr 2022 #7

For what it's worth Tickle Apr 2022 #8

I hope our chances are good in the Florida Supreme Court when it gets there In It to Win It Apr 2022 #9

Republican states tend to have Republican courts In It to Win It Apr 2022 #14

What a bunch of horseshit!!💩💩💩 InAbLuEsTaTe Apr 2022 #12

Meanwhile in Wisconsin. Our manipulated right wing not so "Supreme" Court Greybnk48 Apr 2022 #13

Meanwhile Florida gets to keep their racist map. Marius25 Apr 2022 #15

Florida's map is being challenged also but my hopes aren't high for the state Supreme Court In It to Win It Apr 2022 #16