The Constitution sets the number of Congressional Representatives by population but renders selection of them to the state. To divvy up the reps, states have created districts where various laws and courts have required these districts to be politically and racially evenly divided. The de facto rule is: One Congressional Representative per District. However, the word “district” has never been defined.
Plan A: Suppose, for example, Ohio divides its 15 Districts: One district for the heavily Democrat and Black counties of Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo and the other 14 districts divided among the remaining 83 counties. In other words, Ohio could gerrymander the current 10 Dem districts down to one making this the model for other states.
Plan B: Define districts as: Equal physical size based on latitude and longitude.
California, for all intents, has already gerrymandered their state; of their 52 districts, only 9 are Republican. Recently they passed legislation, for voter approval, to decrease the number of Republican districts even more. Of course, all such major gerrymandered changes could be challenged in the courts…but this is a new ball game, it’s only the 7thinning, the Republicans are at bat, and SCOTUS is the umpire.
Chuck Klein, Columnist: American Free News Network
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