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BumRushDaShow

(172,716 posts)
10. Yup
Mon Feb 19, 2018, 09:43 PM
Feb 2018

Problem is that the GOP did not comply with the PA Supreme Court order and the SCOTUS already refused to hear their previous challenge noting that this was a PA state Constitution issue ("states rights" ) not a federal one. They were given ample opportunity to call the legislature into brief session to even create a "shell bill" that could have included the map they eventually submitted, but they didn't. Nor did the map they submitted at the last minute, have any legislative input or review at all.

So they petulantly slow-walked their response and manufactured a means to try to halt this in the federal courts, but they would have to find some U.S. Constitutional reason to do so.

So we will see...

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The new map graphic DeminPennswoods Feb 2018 #1
Thanks! BumRushDaShow Feb 2018 #2
I was just going to post the PG link DeminPennswoods Feb 2018 #5
Looks pretty good to me DeminPennswoods Feb 2018 #3
From my twitter feed Gothmog Feb 2018 #4
Oh, Crud! MyOwnPeace Feb 2018 #6
Where are these districts that are supposed to benefit democrats? femmocrat Feb 2018 #7
Dems will have a chance now DeminPennswoods Feb 2018 #8
I found that the 4 counties in the new PA-14 BumRushDaShow Feb 2018 #11
And the GOP is vowing court action to stop it. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2018 #9
Yup BumRushDaShow Feb 2018 #10
Some interesting analysis has been going regarding potentials for this map BumRushDaShow Feb 2018 #12
No third party/independent votes considered in these stats FakeNoose Feb 2018 #14
Well statistically BumRushDaShow Feb 2018 #15
Sam Wang and Princeton Consortium response to the map BumRushDaShow Feb 2018 #13
How about that, our "uneducated guesses" were pretty close DeminPennswoods Feb 2018 #16
Well what happened was BumRushDaShow Feb 2018 #17
Yep, LV and Lancaster DeminPennswoods Feb 2018 #18
I keep forgetting about Altoona! BumRushDaShow Feb 2018 #19
It's a bit jarring to look at a couple of the CDs and DeminPennswoods Feb 2018 #20
It's funny that I didn't even look at the legend and what it represented BumRushDaShow Feb 2018 #21
Old CD 5 contains the Allegheny Natl Forest DeminPennswoods Feb 2018 #22
You can see a dark strip going from NW to SE in Philly BumRushDaShow Feb 2018 #23
Once travelling across the PA Tpk, traffic was forced to detour DeminPennswoods Feb 2018 #24
That sounded like when me and my sis took my niece to Crystal Cave BumRushDaShow Feb 2018 #25
Predictably, the Post-Gazette editorial team sided DeminPennswoods Feb 2018 #26
Links to history of PA redistricting lawsuits wrt 2010 map DeminPennswoods Feb 2018 #27
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