Dark money: The backstory of Alabama’s redistricting defiance
“The Alabama Legislature’s open defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Allen v. Milligan ordering the creation of a second majority-Black district baffled and infuriated the federal three-judge panel that initially ordered the state to redraw its 2021 congressional map.
APR has now identified connections between Alabama officials who led the 2023 redistricting process — which disregarded the U.S. Supreme Court’s order — with far-right power broker Leonard Leo’s dark money network, described this past week by Politico as “a billion-dollar force that has helped remake the judiciary and overturn longstanding legal precedents on abortion, affirmative action and many other issues.”
APR’s reporting shows the extent to which Alabama’s calculation to defy the Supreme Court was made not simply by state legislators in Alabama but has been driven by nationally connected political operatives at the center of the well-documented right-wing effort to reshape the composition and jurisprudence of the Supreme Court and to overturn the remaining key protections established by the 1965 Voting Rights Act.”
Leonard Leo is big friends with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni
The Most Gerrymandered States Ranked by Efficiency Gap and Seat Advantage
2022:
Princeton Gerrymandering Project
“We bridge the gap between mathematics and the law to achieve fair representation through redistricting reform.”
Did you know this?
Ohio Voted on this in 2018
Ohio Issue 1, Congressional Redistricting Procedures Amendment (May 2018)
Road Map to Redistricting 2021-2022
US House Seats and state House and Senate seats no longer competitive
My state of Tennessee
Nashville’s political future could be in jeopardy by gerrymandered congressional districts | Opinion
TEXAS
Texas lawmakers pass controversial new map for the U.S. House of Representatives
Christie, Pompeo named co-chairs of GOP redistricting group
“The National Republican Redistricting Trust (NRRT) also announced on Thursday that longtime GOP strategist Karl Rove will serve as a senior adviser. Both Christie and Pompeo are seen as potential candidates for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.”
GOP Could Retake the House in 2022 Just by Gerrymandering Four Southern States
Alabama
South Carolina
Elise Stefanick
In case she deletes it:
SAD:
‘We need to make a change’: McCarthy backs Stefanik’s bid to replace Cheney as GOP conference chair
SADDER:
Elise Stefanik blaming Nancy Pelosi for Jan. 6 is a brazen attack on reality
Overview Of NY-21 Congressional Campaign
Not much diversity in Elise Stefanick’s District:
US Census – QuickFacts – New York
United States congressional delegations from New York
New York State has 27 US House Members, 19 DEM and 8 GOP.
So DEMs make up 70% of New York State Representative. If half of 26.2% of independents vote Democrat, that brings Democrat vote to 62.3% – how many races were competitive in New York? (Sadly, both parties like ‘safe’ elections, not competitive elections)
2020 United States House of Representatives elections
Jim Jordan
Ohio Supreme Court Justice Pat DeWine says he won’t recuse himself from redistricting lawsuits involving his father, Gov. Mike DeWine
Jim Jordan’s Gerrymandered District
“Opinion: In the Ohio 4th, as in gerrymandered districts all over the country, democracy is at stake“
Jim Jordan’s District is not very diverse!
US Census – QuickFacts – Ohio
Ohio’s 4th Congressional District
Ohio has two senators in the United States Senate and 16 representatives in the United States House of Representatives. Ohio is a state in the United States.
Ohio has 11 GOP Representatives and 3 DEM Representives. 2 Vacant Seats.
So 79% of Ohio US House seats are Republican. How about the votes?
2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Ohio
12 GOP winners, 4 DEM winners, 75% Republican yet 56.45% to 42.55% of the votes – a direct result of Gerrymandering
Thanks to ALEC (ALEC you ask?)
Marjorie Greene Taylor
How Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘Basically Bought’ Her House Seat
Marjorie Greene officially shifts campaign to District 14 seat
“A press release issued on Twitter this morning from the Marjorie Taylor Greene for Congress campaign officially stated she’s ending her campaign for the 6th District and is shifting to run for the 14th District.”
United States congressional delegations from Georgia
8 GOP US House Members, 6 DEM
57% of House Members
Georgia’s 14th Congressional District
Quick Facts – Georgia
Lauren Boebert
Sadly,
The Spot: Lauren Boebert’s odds of staying in Congress just got better
United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado, 2022
4 DEM, 3 GOP
57% DEM
Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District
Quick Facts – Colorado
2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado
Colorado is a great example of why both parties are happy with gerrymandering – No Competitive Races
Paul Gosar
Arizona’s 4th Congressional District
Paul Gosar received 69.7% of the vote, how did the state as a whole vote?
2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona
Madison Cawthorn
Madison Cawthorn: behold the rotten fruit of extreme Republican gerrymandering
US Census – QuickFacts – North Carolina
United States congressional delegations from North Carolina
Dan Crenshaw
US Census – QuickFacts – Texas
