The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Saturday, February 24, 2018

Not about to forsake their Gerrymander

Another reason to hate Republicans is their totally shameless demand to be allowed to get 80% of the seats in the federal House of Representatives available to our state with only 50% of the vote.

Federal judges fast-track hearings on whether to block new Pa. congressional map, decline to immediately do so

A panel of three federal judges declined Friday to immediately block Pennsylvania’s new congressional map from taking effect, leaving it in place for now.

Ruling on a motion filed by Republicans opposed to map, the judges fast tracked a hearing on whether it should intervene in the case.

The claims of injury from the Republican lawmakers are “not so exigent as to justify” immediately blocking the map through issuing a temporary restraining order, the judges wrote, especially because they favor giving “an opportunity for all parties to be heard.”

This newest legal challenge to the map was filed Thursday by two state senators and eight Republican U.S. Congressmen from Pennsylvania. 

They asked the courts to consider whether the state Supreme Court, by imposing the new congressional map, violated the U.S. Constitution’s elections clause, which gives power to state legislatures to run elections.

A similar request, filed by state Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati (R., Jefferson) and House Speaker Mike Turzai (R., Allegheny) is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.

But are not state legislatures, in all they do, subject also to the state constitution?

It was for their violating that that the state Supremes stepped in.

The new map.

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