One can be in a state of delusional denial all they want but reality is there and it speaks volumes when it comes to a right wing extremist packed SCOTUS that is a threat on Democracy and U.S. Constitutional law:
The Supreme Court, gerrymandering, and the Republican turn against democracy
A bigger threat to American democracy than Donald Trump.
The Supreme Court’s Thursday morning ruling in Rucho v. Common Cause amounts to a blank check for partisan gerrymandering. Chief Justice John Roberts’s opinion holds that federal courts should not have the power to declare particular maps unconstitutional, as doing so would be “unprecedented expansion of judicial power ... into one of the most intensely partisan aspects of American political life.”
What this means, in practice, is that local authorities get to decide on the shape of House and state legislative districts. Parties that control statehouses will be freer to not only cement their own hold on power but ensure that their party sends more representatives to Washington as well.
While Republicans and Democrats both gerrymander, there is no doubt that Republicans do it more and more shamelessly. North Carolina Rep. David Lewis, who helped draw one of the maps at issue in Rucho, was admirably honest about his motives in a 2016 statehouse speech.
“I think electing Republicans is better than electing Democrats,” he explained. “So I drew this map in a way to help foster what I think is better for the country.”
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-poli...me-court-gerrymandering-republicans-democracy
