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Independent State Legislature Theory

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Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission vs Arizona State Legislature

In 2000, the people of Arizona voted by referendum to create an independent redistricting commission that would handle election redistricting. When the state legislature and Republicans were in charge, they gerrymandered the state to hell, right? So redistricting authority is given to this independent commission in Arizona, and the state legislature sued the independent commission. Hilarious, you know, like we want a g Gerrymander. Let us gerrymander. You got to respect the pettiness of Clarence Thomas. I love that he manages to squeeze his anger about gay marriage into a gerrymandering case.

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