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    Default Pa. Legislature Trying To Impeach Justices Who Struck Down Illegal Voting Districts.

    Wow...State Supreme Court ruled that the gerrymandered districts are illegal. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld that ruling. Now, the Pa. Republican Legislature is going to try to dump the 5 justices who voted against them.


    https://thinkprogress.org/pennsylvan...-408544a51b96/

    In a direct attack on the rule of law, Pennsylvania state Rep. Cris Dush (R) sent a memo to his colleagues Monday evening asking them to cosponsor articles of impeachment against five of the state’s seven supreme court justices.
    The justices’ crime? Striking down the state’s gerrymandered congressional maps, which allowed Republicans to win 13 of the state’s 18 congressional seats even in election years when Democrats won a majority of the statewide popular vote.
    Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Althea View Post
    Wow...State Supreme Court ruled that the gerrymandered districts are illegal. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld that ruling. Now, the Pa. Republican Legislature is going to try to dump the 5 justices who voted against them.


    https://thinkprogress.org/pennsylvan...-408544a51b96/
    We'll have to keep an eye on this and see where it goes. Why am I not surprised that the GOP would try a tactic like this? Don't like a ruling? Send the judges to the gula.... er, impeach them and replace them with puppets who will do your bidding.

    The gulags aren't far behind.

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    I'm surprised this isn't all over natl. news. This country is going down the tubes. Republicans are realizing that they are a vast minority in this nation. So they have to keep voter turnout low by any means necessary.
    Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Althea View Post
    Wow...State Supreme Court ruled that the gerrymandered districts are illegal. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld that ruling. Now, the Pa. Republican Legislature is going to try to dump the 5 justices who voted against them.


    https://thinkprogress.org/pennsylvan...-408544a51b96/

    Checks and balances.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Althea View Post
    Republicans are realizing that they are a vast minority in this nation.
    A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Althea View Post
    I'm surprised this isn't all over natl. news. This country is going down the tubes. Republicans are realizing that they are a vast minority in this nation. So they have to keep voter turnout low by any means necessary.
    Then explain why PA. went red this past presidential election. What do you know about the "whens and hows" of my state's redistricting?
    Common sense is not a gift, it's a punishment because you have to deal with everyone who doesn't have it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Althea View Post
    The justices’ crime? Striking down the state’s gerrymandered congressional maps, which allowed Republicans to win 13 of the state’s 18 congressional seats even in election years when Democrats won a majority of the statewide popular vote.
    apparently that wasn't 2016......I find it interesting that in 2010 the PA Supreme Court decided unanimously that the congressional maps were legal.....Chrispy tells me that the change is because that court was more conservative......is it safe to conclude, therefore, that this decision is totally political?......

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    It's about time the impeachment process was used. It should be used a lot more. Judges are the easiest to get rid of so it's a start...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kacper View Post
    Checks and balances.
    Yes balancing law and anarchy. That is patriotic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nordberg View Post
    Yes balancing law and anarchy. That is patriotic.
    It is not anarchy to follow the procedures of the Constitution and practiced for 227 years by both Democrats and Republicans.

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    only about 225 years too late. but elections have consequences, i hear.
    A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flash View Post
    It is not anarchy to follow the procedures of the Constitution and practiced for 227 years by both Democrats and Republicans.
    Destroying the judicial because it will not allow you to cheat. Yeah, anarchy,. One man one vote, means nothing. Some votes should count more just like the constitution says......where?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nordberg View Post
    Destroying the judicial because it will not allow you to cheat. Yeah, anarchy,. One man one vote, means nothing. Some votes should count more just like the constitution says......where?
    How is following the Constitution cheating?

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    Quote Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet View Post
    apparently that wasn't 2016......I find it interesting that in 2010 the PA Supreme Court decided unanimously that the congressional maps were legal.....Chrispy tells me that the change is because that court was more conservative......is it safe to conclude, therefore, that this decision is totally political?......
    I think it's safe to conclude that judicial decisions can be as biased as any other decisions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OODA View Post
    It's about time the impeachment process was used. It should be used a lot more. Judges are the easiest to get rid of so it's a start...
    There's no grounds to impeach them.

    Please sober up before trying to post again.

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