I keep thinking about the fact that our current equal protection jurisprudence looks like this:
Bad People: we want to discriminate against…uh, the people most likely to have sickle cell anemia
SCOTUS: well that’s not race, is it?
Bad People: oh no, just strongly correlated with it
SCOTUS: well as long as you don’t SAY the word race it’s fine! 😇
Bad people: I mean that IS why we picked it
SCOTUS: I can’t hear what you’re saying, you’re going through a tunnel
Anyway, we hold that this is constitutional.
I'm still figuring out how a political party purposefully cracking and packing in it's favor isn't considered disenfranchisement of the opposing party.
It seems that a minority party making the districts to gain power and then making the rules to stay in power is a just a tad undemocratic. I guess I have been mistaken that normal people want democracy. My bad.
