US House Redistricting: Arizona

[DrScholl]

I'm reading that Schweikert isn't running in AZ-9, but in the new AZ-6 and that Quayle will also be running in that seat. The new seat will be wide open.

[DrScholl]

Bottom line, Republicans just aren't going to get as many safe seats as they like, not with any makeup of the commission. As it stands, there are only 2 D+ PVI districts on the map, which is hardly a Democratic gerrymander. No party owns the congressional seats, so it's a bit ridiculous for the governor to claim the map is "thievery". Sometimes you just have to get over it, that's what Democrats in many states have to do.

[DrScholl]

And what if the next chair doesn't obey the Republicans demands? Are they going to repeat the process over and over again until they find someone that will? This isn't going to stop, because the commission isn't going to draw the map they want, no matter who the chair is.

[DrScholl]

The bottom line is, impeachment of any commissioner has to have a solid reason and it can't be "we don't like the map". The sort of negligence for impeachment would be things like embezzlement or showing up under the influence, where a commissioner could not do the job they were appointed to do.

To show how bogus the whole thing is, one of the Justices asked Brewer's lawyer if Brewer could have thrown out Mathis for a bad hairstyle and the lawyer's response was yes.