Republicans Are Trying To Rig Pennsylvania By Threatening To Impeach Supreme Court Justices

After the Pennsylvania Supreme Court unveiled the redrawn district map and the result was a fairer map rather than the extreme Republican gerrymandering of districts that had been in place, Senator Toomey (R-PA) said impeaching state Supreme Court justices is a “conversation that has to happen.”

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Asked in the Pennsylvania state capital rotunda about the Republican impeachment talk surrounding the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on their gerrymandering decision, Toomey said it’s a conversation that has to happen.

Voting rights and redistricting expert Stephen Wolf noted, “WOW, this is increasingly moving from the fringe toward the GOP’s mainstream. You now have a US senator, congressman, & state party chair suggesting impeachment of judges who struck down the GOP’s extreme 13R-5D gerrymander of this 50-50 swing state.”

As Pennsylvania native Jason Easley wrote of the new map, which is arguably even better than the map Democrats asked for, “The map reflects Pennsylvania’s purple status much more than the Republican-drawn map that led to the GOP holding a 13-5 advantage in the state’s US House delegation. The new map is fair, which is all Democrats wanted… This is what a fair map based on actual geography and population looks like.”

We always end up back here, asking why Republicans are trying so hard to suppress the vote, gerrymander the vote, trick the vote, and now, even, every so sadly, allow a hostile foreign power to interfere and attack their own country on their behalf.

If Republicans’ ideas are so popular, why do they need to try so hard to rig the system in their favor.

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