The most powerful politicians in Ohio are apparently willing to risk being held in contempt of court if it means they can pass state legislative maps gerrymandered in their own favor.
Way, way, way too late for that…
contempt
That’s exactly the ugliness of the Republican Party today.
They have contempt for everything.
contempt: the feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving scorn:
What is it about GQPers that they believe they are above the rule of law.
Screw these SOBs and Lock.Them.Up!
OT. You’re fired!!
“If Josh has left … all bets are off,” one of the sources told Reuters, calling Adams the “brains” behind the app’s technology.
What Technology? They just used off the shelf components.
They couldn’t pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.
Matt, in a few places in the story you refer to a date of April 28. Is that supposed to be March 28?
I was going to joke about how they don’t seem to respect democracy, but it’s not a joke - they really, really don’t. My Florida brother has used the “we’re not a Democracy, we’re a Republic” line, J.D. Vance opined a few weeks ago that only parents should have votes (one for each child) and I’ve seen posters at Redstate argue that only “landowners” should have the vote. All are code for “we don’t like the result of democracy, so need something else”.
I’m still enough of an optimist to think that it’s “the last act of a desperate man” (cue the Blazing Saddles quote) but seriously, how can an entire political group so completely abandon the principles they espoused for so long?
Man, talk about sore losers… 
This is absolutely and Oxymoron! It is neither the “Truth” nor is it “social.” It is merely the incoherent rantings of deranged minds. . . especially Trumps.
I, for one, don’t know that. It’s interesting though that, as a group, they’re all talking about change.
On the one hand, so are we.
On the other, they’re easy marks for new laws by “the right reps”.
Could it be the complete lack of consequences dating back to (at least) St. Ronnie’s reign?
It isn’t some great mystery, they know the only way they can win is to cheat. Let’s get out the vote and wipe them off the map.
Poor Devin Nunes always thought the formula was “buy high, sell low.” He’s a loser, Donnie is a loser.
So is Contempt a jail thing or a rules-and-norms thing?
Because quite frankly I can’t see with what’s at stake how they’d GAF even if it means 30 days in the pokey for someone.
Once again, Republicans accusing others of what they themselves our doing. Because “since we are doing it, they must be too.”
The most powerful politicians in Ohio are apparently willing to risk being held in contempt of court if it means they can pass state legislative maps gerrymandered in their own favor.
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Well shit…who needs a free and fair election when ya can win by cheating? Where I grew up in southwestern Ohio the democrats did not even bother with a name on the ballot. All John Boehner need do is cast his own vote… Or mebbe include his wife too.
It’s not really new.
Putin is still living and that’s a stain on humanity.
We’re not that far away from 50/50. Shit, they’d do pretty well if they just dropped the racism. Better to drop democracy than the racism.
Adding that the process could take months, LaRose said O’Connor “violated her oath of office by making up what she wants the law to say, rather than interpreting what it actually says.”
Let’s check the tapes:
We hold that petitioners have shown beyond a reasonable doubt that the second revised plan violates Article XI, Sections 6(A) and 6(B).
What does the Ohio Constitution say about this?
Article XI, Section 6 | Additional district standards
The Ohio redistricting commission shall attempt to draw a general assembly district plan that meets all of the following standards:(A) No general assembly district plan shall be drawn primarily to favor or disfavor a political party.
(B) The statewide proportion of districts whose voters, based on statewide state and federal partisan general election results during the last ten years, favor each political party shall correspond closely to the statewide preferences of the voters of Ohio.
This is their latest failure of a map:
The maps show a 54-45 GOP advantage in the House and an 18-15 lead in the Senate, but 17 of the Democratic House districts and seven Senate districts are considered political “toss-ups,” meaning they are within two percentage points in partisan breakdown.
Note, that makes the true breakdown as 54-17-28 (GOP-Competitive-Dem) in the House and 18-7-8 (GOP-Competitive-Dem) in the Senate in a state that went 53-45 for Trump in 2020.
Seems like Ohio Supreme Court keeps getting it right by calling our the GOP BS.