Turley on New York gerrymandering ruling: Courts are saying Democrats are ‘trying to rig elections’

Constitutional regulation professor Jonathan Turley mentioned on “America’s Newsroom” Friday that the Democrats can’t declare to be “defending democracy” whereas courts throw out their gerrymandered congressional maps. Turley mentioned that in New York and different states, judges are basically denying Democrats’ makes an attempt to “rig elections.”

LIBERAL STATE’S DEMS ILLEGALLY DREW CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS, COURT RULES

JONATHAN TURLEY: Properly, what’s fascinating is that districts just like the one for Home Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, who has spoken towards gerrymandering, may be very very like the unique gerrymandered district. It seems like a salamander. It’s so contorted, and what the Republicans had been complaining about is that the Democrats had been making an attempt to principally cut back their benefit within the state to simply 5 districts to cut back the variety of Republicans going to Congress. A choose earlier mentioned this was uncooked partisan gerrymandering. Now this appellate courtroom has agreed. Now, remember that lately a Maryland choose additionally struck down a Democratic map, saying it was unconstitutional and uncooked partisan gerrymandering. After which in Wisconsin, a courtroom went with a Republican map over the Democratic map due to related issues. That is making it increasingly more troublesome for the Democrats to run on this ‘Shield Democracy’ slogan when courts are saying that they are making an attempt to rig elections.

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