Over at “One First,” I wrote about how the redistricting chaos we’re seeing in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Virginia is something #SCOTUS *chose,* and how it belies both the entire purpose of the “Purcell principle” and the Court’s claim that it’s staying out of the political process:
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The Supreme Court has not only accelerated the race to the partisan redistricting bottom; it is directly responsible for the chaos we're seeing on the ground.Steve Vladeck (One First)
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in reply to Steve Vladeck • • •But it's not chaos. It's different states choosing to follow their procedures surrounding districting as they see fit.
It's nothing new that politicians wanted to do this for a long time, and now they see a political opportunity, and it's regardless of the SOCTUS decision since that has no legal weight in so many of these examples.
Even the Virginia nullification was predictable as the normal process in the commonwealth was to reject the referendum as invalid.
This is only chaos if separated from the rules and factors aligning it.