“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
2022:
“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
US House Seats and state House and Senate seats no longer competitive
My state of Tennessee
TEXAS
“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.”
Alabama
South Carolina
Elise Stefanick
In case she deletes it:
SAD:
SADDER:
Not much diversity in Elise Stefanick’s District:
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)
“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!
Ohio has 11 GOP Representatives and 3 DEM Representives. 2 Vacant Seats.
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
“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.”
8 GOP US House Members, 6 DEM
Lauren Boebert
Sadly,
4 DEM, 3 GOP
Colorado is a great example of why both parties are happy with gerrymandering – No Competitive Races
Paul Gosar
Paul Gosar received 69.7% of the vote, how did the state as a whole vote?
Madison Cawthorn
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