Missouri Tries to Ignore Petition and Brute Force Gerrymander into Place

UNITED STATES - JULY 19: Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., the representative whose seat Missouri Re... UNITED STATES - JULY 19: Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., the representative whose seat Missouri Republicans are trying to obliterate. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) MORE LESS

A citizen group filed a new lawsuit attempting to force Missouri’s Secretary of State to stop slow-walking his certification of a petition that would put the state’s 2025 gerrymander to a public vote.

Meanwhile, a member of South Carolina’s Legislative Black Caucus predicts that “it’ll take us 10 to 15 years to overcome” the ramifications of the post-Callais gerrymanders.

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  1. Welcome to Chief Robert’s Post-Racial America!

    :fire: This is fine. :fire:

  2. Three-Fifths Compromise, We Hardly Knew Ye…

  3. Ah, back to the back-of-the-bus. What progress.

  4. This wouldn’t be happening if those 7 million that voted for Biden had made an effort and voted for Harris.
    For those that believe that their vote doesn’t count..well…here we are.

  5. “There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between Al Gore & GW Bush” = Alito & Roberts

    “There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between Hillary & Trump” = Gorsuch Kavanaugh & Coney Barret.

    I hope y’all are happy !

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