More on that egregiously overreaching Pennsylvania Supreme Court redistricting decision
It’s even worse than you may have thought [emphasis mine]:
The change took the people of the Keystone State unawares. While we dozed through a rainy three-day weekend, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court declared itself a lawmaking body, one over which the real legislators have no veto. They did so for all the usual reasons tyrants do what they do. “Fairness.” “Equity.” “Justice.” All things that, in a person’s own mind, he and he alone represents. They had a good story to tell, one that the mainstream media was apt to believe. The only thing they lacked was the law. But no matter. Courts do not need such things in Pennsylvania anymore.
The court’s Democratic majority would deny that any such change took place. They would say they were doing their job, interpreting the law, not making it up out of whole cloth. But not long after inventing a new requirement for congressional districting, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court invented the map, too. Rather than judging the legislature’s efforts against the legal standard (a standard they pulled out of thin air, but a standard, at least) they took the pencil out of the legislature’s hands and said “we’ll just write the thing ourselves.”…
Pennsylvania’s constitution contains no rule against weird shapes, and the United States Supreme Court had explicitly held that political gerrymanders, like the one passed in 2011, were legal. In Easley v. Cromartie in 2001, the U.S. Supreme Court held that unlike racial gerrymanders, political gerrymanders and gerrymanders to protect incumbents were allowed under the Constitution. In the 2004 case of Vieth v. Jubelirer, which concerned the previous version of Pennsylvania’s map, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor held that the issue of political gerrymandering was not even justiciable; that is, it was not a subject that courts had the authority to decide. And nothing in Pennsylvania’s body of state constitutional law changed in those years.
The real difference came in 2015, with the election of three Democrats to the state supreme court, giving the party a 5-2 majority.
Please read the whole thing.
The court failed, among other things, to follow precedent, or to name the specific provision the old districts violated so that the legislature could come up with something that fulfilled it (although later the court did invoke one, it was just that elections be “free and fair,” an incredibly broad and amorphous standard to meet).
In this way, courts can dramatically change the political results of future elections. How very tempting!
This isn’t the first time that judges overrode the will of the People. Sometimes (e.g. political congruence “=” or selective exclusion) it is welcomed. Sometimes judges will even override human rights and scientific evidence (e.g. selective-child) when rationalized by the twilight faith. The establishment of the Pro-Choice Church, selective, opportunistic, and congruent, has clear and progressive consequences.
That said, gerrymandering occurs in several ways, including taxpayer-subsidized schemes (i.e. redistributive change) that normalizes color (i.e. racism) and sex (i.e. sexism) diversity. Americans are losing our nation one baby, one child, one politically incongruent (i.e wrong color, sex, or gender) citizen, at a time.
old hat…
read what soviets did in countries they were allowed to operate in..
sheesh…
its like yuour discovering 100 year old things..
on another note
initial analysis has been outright confirmed and at least two Russian Su-57s have been forward-deployed to Khmeimim Air Base in western Syria. Satellite imagery dated February 23rd, 2018 shows two of the aircraft parked on the base’s tightly packed fixed-wing tactical aircraft ramp.
artfldgrs:
Again, you make some unwarranted assumptions.
The one you’re making here is one you’ve made before on other posts, which is that if something is written about because it’s in the news, it means the person writing or commenting is shocked, shocked! that this is happening and believes nothing like it has ever happened before.
It’s not a correct assumption.
From Progressing America:
maybe i am referring to the average person reading, not writing… does it matter? not like anyone gets anywhere unbound to the past moorings… how would they know?
How is it worse than selected, not elected, these so called representatives of the people.
Have the courts always been this bad as covert partisans and legislators?
Ever since Justice Roberts wrote that convoluted opinion for Obamacare, reason and the Constitution have seemed to me minor formalities to be overcome in legislating from the bench.
I imagine for earlier conservatives Roe v. Wade was much the same.
It is a huge mistake to elect judges. Elections invite politics, which should have no place in a courtroom.
Maybe artificial intelligence could do better.
Of such actions are “a long train of abuses” made…
Cases like this are always annoying. I sometimes wish we had followed the British system a little more closely. Parliament is sovereign.
Now, I don’t support the ability of a simple majority to change the constitution, but I believe courts ought to show deference to elected representatives. Courts shouldn’t be bending over backwards to make more work for themselves. They’re busy enough as it is.
It took a Civil War to establish parliamentary sovereignty. Looking at America today, a lot of people are complaining about Trump, and I understand. But the biggest systemic problem is the legal system. If we fight another civil war, I suspect it will be over some act of judicial review, not all the feelings Trump has hurt.
The Leftist alliance and Deep State have mile long blackmail and goodie lists on the judges (all lawyers remember) and Congress critters.
Don’t worry, they got it guaranteed that a certain percentage will “rule” in the favor they were told to rule in (like Roberts).
For example, it just so happens that one of the judges for Roe v Wade, had a daughter that needed an abortion. How he was put on the pivotal precedent judgment without anyone figuring it out… and why didn’t he recuse himself…
The American people were told that their representatives were elected based upon the popular will. I say they were selected, not elected.
The Demoncrats pretend that election rules matter and the Republicans pretend that election results matter. Everyone will be happy so long as we continue this game of illusion… until the war breaks out at least.
I’m sorry, the Democrats have an election to win. Never forget that, when they got their filibuster -proof Senate, the DOJ went after Ted Stevens with false information and hid evidence that was in his favor, costing him the election in Alaska. Then, they stole the Franken election in Minnesota. So, when they come up with a plan, everyone does their job. Hence, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, they’ll teach those rubes to vote for Trump. They aren’t going to take a chance on that happening again.
Another contemptible, anti-republican example of what Scalia called a “Judicial Putsch” [Obergfell]…
These judges need to be removed from the bench, and placed on a rail, covered in tar & feathers.
That is the just reward for their acts.
Posts like these are extremely frustrating. The real question is what are we going to do about this? We can tut-tut all we want about these judges but if/when the Dems win the House they will impeach the President and tear the country apart.
We are in a civil war. The Left only has the will to rule. They do not accept the results of elections when the other side wins. They will use whatever tools are available to them to impose their ideas on the rest of us. If they don’t control the Congress or the Presidency then they rule through the bureaucracy and the courts.
The question above is genuine. I am asking you Neo to apply your considerable intellect to figure out ways in which common people like me can fight back. All I can figure out now is to vote and to contribute to political candidates that seem to support my views. I do not have enough money to sway elections but I know that if enough people like me contribute we can affect things.
If/when tyranny comes to the USA it will most likely come from the judiciary. To paraphrase Stalin, I do not care what laws you pass so long as I get to say what they mean. We are one Supreme court judge away from this. Actually, in many respects we are there. All it takes is for Anthony Kennedy to get up on the left side of his bed to do away with any of our rights.
So, what to do about it?
So many judges are no longer honorable.
We are in a civil war. The Left only has the will to rule.
People were warned about the next civil war 10+ years ago. They didn’t care back then nor do they care about it now. Not enough to kill the Left at least.
It is a good or necessary thing that US patriots have learned to hate the Left. Not enough however. They should control that hate, instead of the other way around. The next thing they should learn is the fear of the elohim.
So, what to do about it?
I don’t care what the rest of you humans and mortals decide to do, but I’m just going to bypass the authorities entirely. They only have as much power as US patriots give them to begin with. The slaves think they are free in slavery 3.0
Most people who have thought about such matters as much as you have probably already know how to fight back. What 99 out of 100 of them lack is the will to do it.
“Politics is downstream of culture.”–Andrew Breitbart
Start by doing your bit to clean up the culture. If you’re a believer or a seeker but not a weekly worshiper, now is the time to become one. Worship with a congregation that lives the values this country is losing sight of, honesty, respecting those who do productive work no matter how lowly, rendering personal assistance as appropriate to the less fortunate, spurning those who covet their neighbor’s goods, respecting parents and other elders, and chastity. If you’re an atheist, be ready to defend those values just mentioned without recourse to God. (If you can’t, then as a notorious atheist quipped, “examine your premises, one or more of them may be wrong”.) Then, congregate with like-minded ‘values atheists’ if you can find any.
Invite others to join you for weekly worship or for the atheists whose atheism has persisted this far, meet weekly with fellow values atheists.
Only when you have accomplished that will you be ready to begin grassroots politicking. Volunteer. Learn. Meet other grassroots volunteers. Network. Walk a precinct. Your couple of hours a week (or month) of walking swing precincts for a campaign or county party committee is more valuable than donating money to hire ‘mercenaries’ to do it as a paid-for chore. (It takes about $25/hr to hire a minimum-wage precinct walker.)
Micha Elyi Says:
February 27th, 2018 at 5:31 pm
One of the reasons why I don’t jump on the blame Peterson or Israel band wagon is one of the commandments from Moses’ god. Thou shalt not bear false witness against your neighbor.
I think I already pissed off quite the number of elohim, before I forgot everything. No reason to add another one to the list just yet.
The Alt Right exists to fight the Leftist alliance. Although I don’t agree with the tactical or strategic effectiveness of all the plans used in the various factions. And they have quite the number of factions, often with mutually exclusive ideologies.
The Leftist alliance is the same way, but they somehow find a way to get the Gaystapo to work with the gay hating black inner city Panthers.
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