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Georgia lawmakers send redrawn congressional map keeping 9-5 Republican edge to judge for approval

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When a map is determined to be gerrymandered in court, it seems like that's the immediate point where it should be redrawn by the special master.
Sending it back to the people who gerrymandered it in the first place, and asking them to fix it is a stupid idea.
- Which is by design.
- Gerrymandering is legal, as is mentioned in the article. What's not legal is racial gerrymandering. If all a court does is find a map to be gerrymandered, it won't send it to anyone to be redrawn.
  
  If all a court does is find a map to be gerrymandered
  Courts don't just release random findings. To get a finding, somebody with standing has to bring a legally valid case before the court. If they find a map to be gerrymandered, then it is related to some court case about gerrymandering.
They're going to follow the Ohio playbook and just keep submitting bad maps until the time is up.
- Yep. And anyone who expected otherwise is a damned fool.
  Georgia republiQans: cheating their brains out as usual.
- The big difference is Ohio wasn't a racial gerrymander, it was an unconstitutional (state) political gerrymander. But yes the play book is the same.
WTB proportional representation for the House. No need to gerrymander shit when there are no congressional districts to gerrymander.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
ATLANTA (AP) — For Georgia Democrats who didn’t get what they want out of a special legislative session to redraw voting districts, their retort Thursday was simple: “We’ll see you in court.”
“This plan adds the required district; it complies with Judge Jones’ order,” said House Redistricting and Reapportionment Committee Chairman Rob Leverett, a Republican from Elberton.
They’ll argue whether lawmakers’ actions fulfilled Jones’ earlier order, in which he found congressional and legislative districts approved in 2021 illegally diluted the power of Black voters.
The GOP congressional map creates a new majority-Black district in parts of Fulton, Douglas, Cobb and Fayette counties on Atlanta’s west side.
“It is self-evident that the Republican Party’s primary goal is to maintain political power at all costs, to the detriment of Georgia voters, representative democracy and the rule of law.”
“It is self-evident that the Republican Party’s primary goal is to maintain political power at all costs, to the detriment of Georgia voters, representative democracy and the rule of law,” Park said.
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