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In reply to the discussion: Breaking: Legal Team Led by David Boies and LULAC Files Lawsuits Challenging Winner-Take-All Approa [View all]shanny
(6,709 posts)41. Good question.
They asserted it in the decision and they got away with it because there is no higher review.
Fun fact, Justices are exempt from the ethical rules that apply to lower court judges. Just another set of rules / standards--like the ones the trumpettes are ignoring--that will need to be codified into law ASAP.
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Breaking: Legal Team Led by David Boies and LULAC Files Lawsuits Challenging Winner-Take-All Approa [View all]
Gothmog
Feb 2018
OP
Why stop there? While we're at it, let's change us to a parlimentary system of government. :-
TheBlackAdder
Feb 2018
#31
What does have promising support is the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
Demit
Feb 2018
#27
But governorship and senate seats can't be shared, so that's irrelevant
muriel_volestrangler
Feb 2018
#42
well i'm certainly liking what's going on in pennsylvania regarding gerrymandered districts
unblock
Feb 2018
#44
The is the originalist approach. Times change. Like with firearms from 200 years ago and today.
Fred Sanders
Feb 2018
#17
"Equal Protection" was falsely cited in Bush v. Gore; now it's time to right that.
lagomorph777
Feb 2018
#37