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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

CHARGE THEM

they’re going to keep doing this until the goddamn election

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Agreed.

Hold them in contempt of court and let them spend a week in jail all expenses paid.

They’re just trying to run out the clock so that, come election time, they’ll throw their hands up in the air and go “Welp, guess we’ll have to use the old map”.

Having a special master draw up a map is great in theory, until SCOTUS stays the lower ruling and drawn map and decides to not rule on the case until after elections (if they even were inclined to rule in favor of a fair map to begin with).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I will say that while I have little faith in SCOTUS, this map was originally thrown out by the SCOTUS decision upholding Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. It’s very unlikely they’d immediately allow the AL legislature to defy them so brazenly.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, to show that AL can ignore them would show the country that they can be ignored. More likely they'll follow their process then call for the justice department to charge them with treason so they can be brought before them and made an example of.

[–] brawleryukon 3 points 1 year ago

let them spend a week in jail all expenses paid.

All expenses paid? But that's SOCIALISM!!

Bill them for their time in the clink, it's what they would want.

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