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Is gerrymandering wrong? I think so, but Justice Roberts thinks the rest of us are too dumb to understand enough to care. #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 ac...

Everyone should take a moment and look at this map. #gerrymandering is bad, m'mmkay. Originally shared by **** What America would look like without gerrymandering. A fundamental problem with district-drawing remains: as long as humans are drawing the lines, there's a danger of bias and self-interest to creep into the process. There is another way, however: we could simply let computers do the drawing for us. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/13/this-is-actually-what-america-would-look-like-without-gerrymandering/?utm_term=.d91212218144