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Novara

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2. I don't quite understand how state maps end up at the SCOTUS considering the 10th A.

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Mon Jun 6, 2022, 12:28 PM

Jun 2022

All this bullshit about "states' rights" - so how does the SCOTUS decide on a state's case regarding how their maps are drawn?

I'm not making a judgment about this case but I'm wondering how gerrymander cases don't end at the state level because it's a state's interest.

Any Constitutional scholars out there who can explain it? Does the SCOTUS assume there's an interest to the entire country when a state screws with their maps?

And if so, isn't that the best case of all for making sure all districts are drawn fairly by nonpartisans in every single state every single time?

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I don't quite understand how state maps end up at the SCOTUS considering the 10th A. Novara Jun 2022 #2

The duty of reapportionment goes to the states. However, the Constitution specifies In It to Win It Jun 2022 #8

Maybe I didn't state my question well Novara Jun 2022 #10

Perhaps I misunderstand the question so my apologies In It to Win It Jun 2022 #12

no need to apologize Novara Jun 2022 #14

Ignoring the rest of the article like with 2nd A words sanatanadharma Jun 2022 #4

WTF? Disaffected Jun 2022 #7

The NY Times is not taking that position. They are reporting that to be the position of In It to Win It Jun 2022 #9

OK, thank you. Disaffected Jun 2022 #15

Constitution says state legislature should draw them. That it! jimfields33 Jun 2022 #5

This is a broad, and deep, conspiracy against democracy. empedocles Jun 2022 #6

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