Is gerrymandering wrong?
Is gerrymandering wrong? I think so, but Justice Roberts thinks the rest of us are too dumb to understand enough to care.
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#gerrymandering
Originally shared by ****
The evidence might be persuasive, once you take the time to digest it, but few voters have the patience or smarts to do so. If justices blow the whistle on Republican cheating, Roberts believes, the public will inevitably conclude that they're simply shilling for Democrats — "And that is going to cause very serious harm to the status and the integrity of the decisions of this Court in the eyes of the country."
Roberts' argument amounts to a rejection of rational inquiry itself: If the evidence that Wisconsin has violated its citizens' constitutional rights is too sophisticated for laymen to grasp at first glance, he says, the court would be better off to ignore it.
...Roberts is right to be worried about the credibility of the judiciary, and its capacity to command the confidence of citizens across the political spectrum. But he should be at least as concerned about the credibility of representative democracy itself.
Via Mary McD
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.freep.com/amp/737243001
#SCotUS
#gerrymandering
Originally shared by ****
The evidence might be persuasive, once you take the time to digest it, but few voters have the patience or smarts to do so. If justices blow the whistle on Republican cheating, Roberts believes, the public will inevitably conclude that they're simply shilling for Democrats — "And that is going to cause very serious harm to the status and the integrity of the decisions of this Court in the eyes of the country."
Roberts' argument amounts to a rejection of rational inquiry itself: If the evidence that Wisconsin has violated its citizens' constitutional rights is too sophisticated for laymen to grasp at first glance, he says, the court would be better off to ignore it.
...Roberts is right to be worried about the credibility of the judiciary, and its capacity to command the confidence of citizens across the political spectrum. But he should be at least as concerned about the credibility of representative democracy itself.
Via Mary McD
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.freep.com/amp/737243001
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