House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., have been calling state legislators about the map, which could affect control of Congress.
“Fine you don’t get to participate in the next election” seems like an appropriate response?
Naw, maybe not. But then that’s the kinda shot we go for here.
This seems like the kind of thing where the justice department could be exerting pressure and building a federal case. I’d be interested to see what kinds of emails are flying around behind the scenes.
The historical precedent is “fine we’ll run your election then and we’ll have armed troops protecting it”. It’s literally Biden’s job to enforce this
In a fair and just world, the leader of the body would be put into prison until the Court’s decision was applied. Each new leader would come to this fate until the situation was rectified to the ruling’s satisfaction. Essentially, it’s a contempt of court condition, and the person in charge is responsible for satisfying the order. That’s why they’re in charge, and why they (at least in most cases) get paid more.
We seem to have forgotten that actions should have consequences other than trivial fiscal or paper declaration penalties.
Don’t you dare call them racist though.
This isn’t about racism, they’re simply trying to protect their majority.
I mean, they are racist, but that’s not the no.1 reason they’re doing this.
They’re inherently tied to each other. What do they want their majority for? To do racism. How are they protecting it? Racism. It’s like when we ask “states rights to do what”.
Huh, good point. Guess I was being too literal.
So what happens when people in government don’t follow court orders? Do they just get sued again?
If it’s anything like Ohio in 2022, they just ignore the court order to redraw it and there’s no recourse.
Imagine packing the court with conservative stooges, doing something SO unconstitutional that those stooges tell you to stop, then defying the orders of your lopsided Supreme Court, that you built yourself.
The Supreme Court gave AL a one week deadline to draw a new map or they would draw it for them.
Alabama is choosing to let that happen in order to save face with their POS base.
By the next election, there will be a 2nd black district. There is no way around it.
The federal government needs to go in and force the legislature to uphold its obligation the the rest of these United States. As Tom cotton once said: “send in the troops”
Alabama is currently “fucking around”.
The “finding out” stage is having your electoral maps redrawn by lawyers in D.C. & enforced at gunpoint.
