She went into the details of the two cases in front of the court — challenges to a Democratic-drawn map in Maryland and GOP-drawn map in North Carolina — and how the legislatures were able to draw districts that ensure that their respective received a number seats disproportionate to the state wide vote.
“Is that how American democracy is supposed to work?” Kagan said. “I have yet to meet the person who thinks so.”
“Free and fair and periodic elections are the key” to the framers’ vision of democracy, Kagan said.
“And partisan gerrymandering can make [elections] meaningless,” Kagan said. “At its most extreme — as in North Carolina and Maryland — the practice amounts to ‘rigging elections.'”
Not sure it's any kind of earth shattering observation or anything but it is the correct one. Also not sure what to do about it. Anyway, so what now? If we operate from the premise that elections are rigged and pointless, then the way to proceed must involve pursuing power by means other than the pointless and rigged elections, right? So then where are we?
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