Relief may be on the horizon, but probably not, since the republicans are apparently going to get away with stealing Obama's rightful SCOTUS appointee.
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In 2012, when Republicans earned just 48.6 percent of the vote, they won 60 seats in the 99 seat Assembly. Two years later, when the increased their share of the vote to 52 percent, they won 63 of the 99 seats.
Indeed, one expert testified that, even if Democrats won 54 percent of the votes, they still would only win 45 seats — giving Republicans the other 54.
The fact that the map was drawn with the intent of rigging the assembly for Republicans, and the fact that it achieved this goal in spades — combined with the fact the mapmakers rejected other proposed maps that “would have achieved the legislature’s valid districting goals while generating a substantially smaller partisan advantage” — renders the maps unconstitutional.
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