ThatOwlWoman (02-13-2018)
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.
ThatOwlWoman (02-13-2018)
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.
Althea (02-12-2018)
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.
ThatOwlWoman (02-13-2018)
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.
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?......
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...
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.
I think it's safe to conclude that judicial decisions can be as biased as any other decisions.
AT&T MOBILITY, LLC V. CONCEPCION (2011)
JANUS CAPITAL GROUP, INC. V. FIRST DERIVATIVE TRADERS (2011)
ASHCROFT V. IQBAL (2009)
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT BUSINESS V. SEBELIUS (2012)
BUSH V. GORE (2000)
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