We'd really be screwed if it wasn't for federal courts consistently slapping the shit out of #DeSantis.
In this one, they tell him his map is way too racist and he needs to redraw it.
QT: https://indieweb.social/@WillRobinson/111001021846244110
@ArenaCops Pretty sure the map hasn't actually been used yet, so yes, preventing it from being used is all the courts can do.
@LouisIngenthron Already drafting discriminating, obviously racist maps in an official capacity, that would violate the 15th Amendment if used, can be seen as attempted fraud, which shouldn't go unpunished — to break the unholy, racist chain of habitual gerrymandering to the serial disadvantage of people of color in the U.S.
@ArenaCops I don't believe the 15th has anything to do with this. The map didn't prevent anyone from voting. It was struck down on state constitutional grounds.
More importantly, "punishing" elected officials for their choices is generally not the job of the courts; it's the job of the electorate. We're responsible for voting out politicians who seek to abuse their power.
@LouisIngenthron Only an electorate, vast parts of which are not disenfranchised or artificially split up in different districts so they're no longer a homogeneous/ coherent community but weakened, can be able to exert its responsibility to consequently vote out abusers of official power.
One example I prefer to quote is that of Texas's 1st congressional district, which was turned more urban & "Republican" after 2003 redistricting & as a result went to Louie Gohmert, the first "Republican" to represent the district since Reconstruction (~1877).
That's how redistricting abusively & undemocratically works to create fake majorities & illegitimate representatives, who responsible voters would surely like to vote out, but are prevented from by fraudulent redestricting.
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@LouisIngenthron That's all? DeSantis & his co-conspirators just need to redraw the map?
That's all they get for violating the Constitution/ Reconstruction Amendments????
Hasn't justice been tempered with mercy for too long already, to the blatant disadvantage of people of color in southern ex-slaveholder states, which ratified the Reconstruction Amendments to regain congressional representation, only to habitually violate those Amendments in those states after having infiltrated Congress again?
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