Redistricting | Virginia votes for temporary Redistricting

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aGDevil2k said:
Also, there's potential for Republicans to be so mad at this they push to ban gerrymandering. Not a high chance but that would be the best thing ever
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That would be great if every state had a non-partisan committee that divided up the congressional districts (as well as state legislative districts) in a way that best reflects how the population votes. North Carolina had it right for an election cycle until our activist state Supreme Court mucked it up.
 
Hey Republicans! Kiss all around our pronoun-loving, transgender sport-playing, land-acknowledging gerrymandering* asses, motherfuckers!

*Gerrymandering is bad, no matter who does it. Pass the damn anti-redistricting legislation so this stops happening.
 
Democrats have been very clear that they will support legislation that promotes a national gerrymandering ban. All it would take is for Republicans- who control every single branch of federal government currently- to get on board. But Republicans won't get on board because Republicans love gerrymandering, and Republicans love gerrymandering because Republican policies are increasingly wildly unpopular with educated voters, so Republicans gerrymander so that they don't their asses kicked out of power permanently. Republicans don't hate gerrymandering. They only hate it when Democrats do it.

Cry harder, Pubs!
 
CFordUNC said:
Hey Republicans! Kiss all around our pronoun-loving, transgender sport-playing, land-acknowledging gerrymandering* asses, motherfuckers!

*Gerrymandering is bad, no matter who does it. Pass the damn anti-redistricting legislation so this stops happening.
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Didn't have to be this way -- For the People Act - Wikipedia

The For the People Act, introduced as H.R. 1, is a bill in the United States Congress intended to expand voting rights, change campaign finance laws to reduce the influence of money in politics, ban partisan gerrymandering, and create new ethics rules for federal officeholders.

The act was originally introduced by Congressman John Sarbanes in 2019, on behalf of the newly elected Democratic majority in the United States House of Representatives as the first official legislation of the 116th United States Congress. The House passed the bill on March 8, by a party-line vote of 234–193. The bill was viewed as a "signature piece of legislation" from the Democratic House majority. After the House passed the bill, it was blocked from receiving a vote by the then Republican-controlled Senate, under Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

In 2021, in the 117th Congress, congressional Democrats reintroduced the act as H.R. 1 and S. 1. On March 3, 2021, the bill passed the House of Representatives on a near party-line vote of 220–210, advancing to the Senate, which was split 50–50 between Democrats and Republicans (with Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris holding the tie-breaking vote, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed to bring it to the floor for a vote. On June 22, 2021, a vote on the bill was held in the Senate. It received unified support from the Democratic caucus, but Senate Republicans blocked the bill with a filibuster, as it lacked the 60 votes needed to invoke cloture after a party-line vote. Some Senate Democrats expressed support for abolishing the filibuster for the bill, but others in their caucus remained opposed or expressed reservations about doing so, including Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.
 
aGDevil2k said:
Also, there's potential for Republicans to be so mad at this they push to ban gerrymandering. Not a high chance but that would be the best thing ever
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If all of this ends in law at the federal level to eliminate gerrymandering and replace it with non-partisan, objective procedures for setting voting districts, it will have been worth it.
 
lawtig02 said:
Didn't have to be this way -- For the People Act - Wikipedia

The For the People Act, introduced as H.R. 1, is a bill in the United States Congress intended to expand voting rights, change campaign finance laws to reduce the influence of money in politics, ban partisan gerrymandering, and create new ethics rules for federal officeholders.

The act was originally introduced by Congressman John Sarbanes in 2019, on behalf of the newly elected Democratic majority in the United States House of Representatives as the first official legislation of the 116th United States Congress. The House passed the bill on March 8, by a party-line vote of 234–193. The bill was viewed as a "signature piece of legislation" from the Democratic House majority. After the House passed the bill, it was blocked from receiving a vote by the then Republican-controlled Senate, under Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

In 2021, in the 117th Congress, congressional Democrats reintroduced the act as H.R. 1 and S. 1. On March 3, 2021, the bill passed the House of Representatives on a near party-line vote of 220–210, advancing to the Senate, which was split 50–50 between Democrats and Republicans (with Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris holding the tie-breaking vote, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed to bring it to the floor for a vote. On June 22, 2021, a vote on the bill was held in the Senate. It received unified support from the Democratic caucus, but Senate Republicans blocked the bill with a filibuster, as it lacked the 60 votes needed to invoke cloture after a party-line vote. Some Senate Democrats expressed support for abolishing the filibuster for the bill, but others in their caucus remained opposed or expressed reservations about doing so, including Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.
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10000%

Gerrymandering is stupid and it's undemocratic. It should be banned federally. Hopefully the GOP getting a very bitter force-fed spoonful of its own nasty medicine will cause them to reconsider their stance on anti-gerrymandering legislation in the future.
 
lawtig02 said:
Didn't have to be this way -- For the People Act - Wikipedia

The For the People Act, introduced as H.R. 1, is a bill in the United States Congress intended to expand voting rights, change campaign finance laws to reduce the influence of money in politics, ban partisan gerrymandering, and create new ethics rules for federal officeholders.

The act was originally introduced by Congressman John Sarbanes in 2019, on behalf of the newly elected Democratic majority in the United States House of Representatives as the first official legislation of the 116th United States Congress. The House passed the bill on March 8, by a party-line vote of 234–193. The bill was viewed as a "signature piece of legislation" from the Democratic House majority. After the House passed the bill, it was blocked from receiving a vote by the then Republican-controlled Senate, under Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

In 2021, in the 117th Congress, congressional Democrats reintroduced the act as H.R. 1 and S. 1. On March 3, 2021, the bill passed the House of Representatives on a near party-line vote of 220–210, advancing to the Senate, which was split 50–50 between Democrats and Republicans (with Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris holding the tie-breaking vote, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed to bring it to the floor for a vote. On June 22, 2021, a vote on the bill was held in the Senate. It received unified support from the Democratic caucus, but Senate Republicans blocked the bill with a filibuster, as it lacked the 60 votes needed to invoke cloture after a party-line vote. Some Senate Democrats expressed support for abolishing the filibuster for the bill, but others in their caucus remained opposed or expressed reservations about doing so, including Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.
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Short version: filibuster reform should be priority #1 for Dems is they ever re-take control of the Senate. The filibuster is at the center of so much of our government dysfunction - the increasing power grabs by the President, the increasing ineptitude of Congress, public frustration that the government doesn't do anything, etc.
 
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