Legal Expert Dershowitz Explains Potential Shifts in Election Law

Supreme Court Set To Rewrite Election Law

Supreme Court Set To Rewrite Election LawPatrick Houck – Alan Dershowitz, one of the nation’s most prominent constitutional law scholars, says the Supreme Court is poised to dramatically reshape election law in ways that could affect congressional power for decades.

In an interview with Newsmax, Dershowitz said the Court appears ready to move away from using race as a central factor in drawing congressional and legislative districts. The shift is tied to a pending case testing whether the Voting Rights Act of 1965 still allows states to create districts that favor minority voters, or whether redistricting must instead prioritize race-neutral standards. Continue reading

Gerrymandering and Hypocrisy: The Joke’s on Democracy

Politics Without Shame: Gerrymandering Makes Hypocrisy a Political Punch Line

Politics Without Shame: Gerrymandering Makes Hypocrisy a Political Punch LineJonathan Turley – Former diplomat and Democratic senator Adlai Stevenson once remarked that “a hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.” If so, this week in politics was nothing but the worst form of stump speeches.

In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) declared that the move by Texas Republicans to redistrict mid-decade was a “legal insurrection of our U.S. Capitol.”

In Texas, Democratic State Rep. Jolanda Jones (D) must have felt “insurrection” did not quite capture the infamy. Instead, she insisted, “I will liken this to the Holocaust.” Continue reading

How Redistricting and Census Errors Influence Congressional Power

The Gerrymandering War and International Peace

The Gerrymandering War and International PeaceClarice Feldman – For ages, if there was a way to subvert the law for electoral advantage, the Democrats would do it, but under new leadership Republicans are fighting back. If you accurately read the Democrats’ nonsense about “saving our democracy” as a plaint about saving their party, you wouldn’t be wrong.

Just as these domestic outrages are being undone, the President has brokered a series of seven international peace agreements and is negotiating for an eighth (between Russia and Ukraine) this week in Alaska. He’s rightfully thrown up his arms at a Gaza deal because psychopathic Hamas is utterly irrational, but has made astonishing progress with 22 Arab nations who now distance themselves from Gaza. (It remains to be seen how the gormless Norwegians who gave Obama a Nobel Peace Prize for no reason at all will avoid awarding it to the man who rightfully deserves it.) Continue reading