Yes, states CAN redistrict counting only citizens, or eligible voters as GOP plan seems to be. (Reply #25)

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Response to watoos (Reply #20)

Thu Jul 11, 2019, 10:13 PM

CaptainTruth (5,391 posts)

25. Yes, states CAN redistrict counting only citizens, or eligible voters as GOP plan seems to be.

On Twitter @msbellows has great (& scary) analysis of this. A SCOTUS. case (Burns I think) upholds this.

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Anyone else aggravated that no MSNBC hosts except @AriMelber seem to understand the danger of the eligible voters-based redistricting effort Trump announced today? I'm tearing my hair. Lookin' straight at you, @Lawrence @MaddowBlog.

Great Q. But no, because the number of seats each state gets ("apportionment"

must be based on Census population, but districts WITHIN each state ("redistricting"

do not. Which carries an extremely ugly historical analogy: ...
https://t.co/JuaM1Zzwqe

IOW, it appears that Trump just announced a policy of encouraging states to redistrict in ways that do not count huge numbers of mostly-Black citizens, most concentrated in Dem-stronghold cities -- and ordered all federal agencies to help them do so.

Which is super scary: ...

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32 replies	Author	Time	Post
That was a massive win today [View all]	malaise	Jul 2019	OP
You know, I trust you	Bettie	Jul 2019	#1
It's a foiled loss	jberryhill	Jul 2019	#2
YES, this.	BamaRefugee	Jul 2019	#9
+1	CrispyQ	Jul 2019	#32
The idiot-in -chief declares he will get the information elsewhere.	panader0	Jul 2019	#3
Malaise, I do not think he is done yet	rurallib	Jul 2019	#4
+10000, they are going to still try and cook the census books ex post facto	Celerity	Jul 2019	#5
Neither do I but he did not dare disobey the Supreme Court	malaise	Jul 2019	#7
The SC, even though it is majority fascists, is still hanging by a thread...	pangaia	Jul 2019	#21
Yes... and I for one did a happy dance...	Thekaspervote	Jul 2019	#29
It was an elaborate scheme...	kentuck	Jul 2019	#11
They will still not fill out the form.	former9thward	Jul 2019	#18
Perhaps, but that wouldn't affect the 2020 election	StarfishSaver	Jul 2019	#19
Not according to TPM	NRaleighLiberal	Jul 2019	#6
Right on!	kentuck	Jul 2019	#12
Citizen-based districting at state levels will be overruled as unconstitutional. It'll be ongoing	ancianita	Jul 2019	#17
From legal discussions I saw today, SCOTUS has ruled it is constitutional.	CaptainTruth	Jul 2019	#22
They ruled that they can't rule on state districting, so I guess, yes. But it seems that in national	ancianita	Jul 2019	#23
I'm a citizen of Fucktrumpia...	JenniferJuniper	Jul 2019	#8
I think he's truly terrified of being impeached, regardless of whether the Senate convict him	Fiendish Thingy	Jul 2019	#10
I wonder who was able to convince him of that defying the SC would lead to impeachment.	QED	Jul 2019	#15
K&R	Scurrilous	Jul 2019	#13
Neal Katyal agrees.	moondust	Jul 2019	#14
one thing is guaranteed: trump's fuckery is not over	EveHammond13	Jul 2019	#16
Thank you ACLU,	watoos	Jul 2019	#20
Yes, states CAN redistrict counting only citizens, or eligible voters as GOP plan seems to be.	CaptainTruth	Jul 2019	#25
The Supreme Court Case	RobinA	Jul 2019	#24
Do you really think	customerserviceguy	Jul 2019	#26
I canvassed for the census for the	Iliyah	Jul 2019	#27
'Illegal' is an adjective, not a noun.	roody	Jul 2019	#31
k&r	Demovictory9	Jul 2019	#28
Yes it was but really it was already decided	underpants	Jul 2019	#30

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