Appeals court rules Louisiana must enact new congressional map by mid-January
3 years ago by jeffw to c/politics
The Louisiana Legislature has until Jan. 15 to enact a new congressional map after a lower court ruled that the current boundaries weaken the power of Black voters in the state, an appeals court ruled Friday.
Exactly what they did in Ohio. Fucking infuriating.
If that comply then then independent organization should draw the maps.
I'm a fan of Shortest Split-Line.
What you do is take a population map of the state and draw the shortest line possible to separate the population into two equal halves. Then you subdivide those halves with the shortest line to make equal population quarters.
Keep this up until you have all your districts.
There's a little math trick to get equal populations for odd numbered districts.
Now, some people hate this method because it can break up historic neighborhoods and such. I don't care because it ends gerrymandering completely. It's 100% party neutral.
Also, the generated maps are often better than you'd think.
https://www.rangevoting.org/Splitline2009/la.png
vs this;
The Federal Judges picked the map for Alabama after their legislature's racist asses sent the case all the way to the SCOTUS, who rightfully declined to hear the case and the same thing would likely happen here. But nah we have to be massive cynics ignorant of the system and just assume everything is burning down around us so that we're powerless to do anything about it because we're too lazy to figure out something to do to help save democracy.
š„ Thank you! It is seriously awesome to hear someone say this. I'm so sick of the doom. There's plenty to worry about without adding made up shit to the list.
Yeah the last couple days I've really had my hackles up on the doom and gloom stuff. It's makey me cray cray.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The order said āthe district courtās 2022 preliminary injunction, issued with the urgency of establishing a map for the 2022 elections, is no longer necessary.ā
The opinion clarified that uncertainty remains regarding how external factors could affect developments in the case ahead of Jan. 15.
The court argued āan opportunity to adopt a new plan is appropriate since redistricting is a quintessential obligation of a state after a census.ā
Bel Edwards previously vetoed new congressional maps that were advanced by the stateās Republican-controlled legislature.
Bel Edwards said he thought the maps did not accurately reflect the makeup of Louisiana, a state where nearly 33 percent of residents are Black.
The court argued they chose the Jan. 15 deadline because they wanted to āallow newly elected officials to play an effective role in the process.ā
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And the new map will be just as bad as the old one oops! No good? Ok we'll do another map, oh its just as bad? Oops!
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Oh were out of time! Guess youll be forced to use one of the map we already made, oops!
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