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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 01:14 PM Feb 2018

Trump wants Republicans to "challenge" the "correct," gerrymandered PA map.

Donald J. Trump? Verified account @realDonaldTrump

Hope Republicans in the Great State of Pennsylvania challenge the new “pushed” Congressional Map, all the way to the Supreme Court, if necessary. Your Original was correct! Don’t let the Dems take elections away from you so that they can raise taxes & waste money!
6:11 AM - 20 Feb 2018


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Trump wants Republicans to "challenge" the "correct," gerrymandered PA map. (Original Post) Miles Archer Feb 2018 OP
IIRC, the USSC refused to see the Repub challenge to the court ruling... Wounded Bear Feb 2018 #1
Pro Gerrymandering. What a shock. JDC Feb 2018 #2
Trump's afraid he will lose PA in 2020. ProudMNDemocrat Feb 2018 #3
LOL! Waste money, says the guy who golfs every weekend and makes money courtesy SammyWinstonJack Feb 2018 #4
So everyone but Trump knows... Orange Free State Feb 2018 #5

Wounded Bear

(58,717 posts)
1. IIRC, the USSC refused to see the Repub challenge to the court ruling...
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 01:15 PM
Feb 2018

leading to issuing this map. Good luck with that.

SammyWinstonJack

(44,130 posts)
4. LOL! Waste money, says the guy who golfs every weekend and makes money courtesy
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 01:21 PM
Feb 2018

of the taxpayers. He's a hoot, that's what he is.

Orange Free State

(611 posts)
5. So everyone but Trump knows...
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 01:33 PM
Feb 2018

...that the US Supreme Court has already declined to hear the case, which was decided by the Pa. Supreme Court, on the Pa. state constitution only. There is a provision in there that says that a political entity should be divided as little as possible, and to balance the populations in the congressional districts. That was clearly ignored, and the Repukes’s original map was found to be unconstitutional.

What next, will Trump hole up in the basement of Mar-a-Lago, ordering imaginary armies around as (metaphorically) Mueller’s tanks circle and close in?

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