yeah so think of every 3 or 4 people you know and toss one of them. That is chilling. I live in a complex with several buildings so just blast one of the buildings right out of existence. The fact they mention texas though makes me think this is all eventually going to be turned around action wise to elections. Texas wants to make their vote based on land rather than population so that dense urban centers can be disenfranchised.
That’s not far fetched at all. It was only in 1964 that SCOTUS ruled that state legislatures had to use districts of approximately equal population. Other forms of districting were ruled to violate the Equal Protection Clause. It wouldn’t even be that hard for today’s SCOTUS to strike this down, as the Equal Protection Clause, due to its generic language, tends to provide the weakest protection of any constitutional protection.
yeah so think of every 3 or 4 people you know and toss one of them. That is chilling. I live in a complex with several buildings so just blast one of the buildings right out of existence. The fact they mention texas though makes me think this is all eventually going to be turned around action wise to elections. Texas wants to make their vote based on land rather than population so that dense urban centers can be disenfranchised.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_v._Sims
That’s not far fetched at all. It was only in 1964 that SCOTUS ruled that state legislatures had to use districts of approximately equal population. Other forms of districting were ruled to violate the Equal Protection Clause. It wouldn’t even be that hard for today’s SCOTUS to strike this down, as the Equal Protection Clause, due to its generic language, tends to provide the weakest protection of any constitutional protection.