Originally published at: Nancy Mace Can Thank John Roberts for Keeping Her Congressional Seat Safe - TPM – Talking Points Memo
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. On Wednesday, the South Carolina Supreme Court decided that it has no power to protect Black voters from partisan gerrymandering, dismissing a challenge to the state’s congressional district map as a “nonjusticiable political question” in a 5-0…
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It is the Constitutional right of representatives to choose their constituents instead of the constituents choosing their representatives.
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After thanking John Roberts, Nancy Mace needs to relinquish her seat and get mental health treatment.
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When William Tecumseh Sherman was done making Georgia howl, he turned his attentions to South Carolina. We need Sherman again.
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I hate Nancy Mace’s face. Both of them.
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Nothing like these slave states acting up.
If America survives Trump, all this shit needs to taken care of once and for all.
All SCOTUS decisions proven to be influenced by donations to justices need to be rescinded.
We can’t just let the South rise again. The only money they have to do it we gave them.
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Mace is the Michelle Bachman of Virginia Foxxeses.
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Someone local should organize Dems in Mace’s district to register as republicans. Make her fight for her seat in the only election that matters, the primary. They can still vote D in the general.
It’s actually an experiment which could be repeated everywhere Dems are gerrymandered into irrelevance, like Florida and Texas. The blind spot in the fascists voter suppression schemes is that by making the primary the only election that counts, they’re exposing themselves to a rear guard action.
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This whole “districting” thing is BS. The system of districts, with one rep elected by majority vote per, assures there will be just two parties. That doesn’t give much “choice.” And we have seen, when one of those parties goes bad, voters really have no choice at all.
More modern strategies like proportional representation make a lot of sense. Frankly, the US system was devised in the 1700s and has been OBE (overtaken by events). It’s archaic and ineffective. And the American fairy tale about “I vote for the man, not the party” is just delusional.
In most civilized countries, folks vote for the party. They have simple, short, easy ballots. The final results appear to be a lot less worse than we have here, Israel being the exception, of course.
But Israel is always the exception and cannot be held to any rules, laws, or standards.
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Equal protection of the law, schmeequal protection of the law.
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The Texas GQP is currently fighting to close their primaries, in the name of Party Purity, I guess.
[At present, we can vote in either primary. The polling clerk records which party ballot you request, and that information qualifies you to attend precinct meetings and/or vote in a runoff.]
The party argues that without judicial relief, it will be forced to run open primaries in 2026 and beyond, effectively allowing Democrats to continue shaping GOP nominations.
“This lawsuit is about protecting Republicans’ right to choose their own standard-bearers,” said George. “Only Republicans should pick Republican nominees. That’s how we defend our platform, our values, and our future.”
ETA this will be unfortunate, because my area is so ruby-red-GQP, that many local positions are only contested in the Republican primary. Some acquaintances vote in the GQP primary in order to try to block the craziest crazies from judge or sheriff seats.
Spare me the lectures on “SomeOne Should Run for the Democratic Nomination!” Most Dems here could do without the death threats and vandalism.
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Originalists and textualist always find a way to maintain and protect slavery, corruption and greed
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How many families would have to relocate to tip the balance back the other direction? What would be the cost, and how does that compare to what is raised and spent on those statewide campaigns?