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dpmapper
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« on: December 05, 2016, 10:38:58 PM »

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How can this possibly not be used in future court rulings to show how much partisan gerrymandering inhibits the free speech of voters?

Because only a tortured reading of "free speech" interprets it as being relevant to the issue of drawing electoral boundaries?  

I'm anti-gerrymandering but I'm also against redefining constitutional terminology for the sake of winning a political argument.
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dpmapper
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« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2016, 11:09:34 PM »

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How can this possibly not be used in future court rulings to show how much partisan gerrymandering inhibits the free speech of voters?

Because only a tortured reading of "free speech" interprets it as being relevant to the issue of drawing electoral boundaries?  

I'm anti-gerrymandering but I'm also against redefining constitutional terminology for the sake of winning a political argument.

Okay, do you believe Corporations are people and money is speech via Citizens United?   Because that's another national precedent set by the Supreme Court.

Restricting what means you may use to exercise your ACTUAL free speech rights is a restriction of your free speech rights.  That's not torturing any 1stAmd definition of what speech is or is not. 

And corporation, defined: "group of people authorized to act as a single entity and recognized as such in law."

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