Obey on Redistricting: "what the pattern shows is when you have one party government, that the majority party goes nuts!

Can we stop acting like idiots? Please? We’re really smarter than this.

Gee, you think the Republicans are really rushing through a partisan redistricting map to discourage participation in the recall elections by removing a few of the Democratic challengers from their Senate districts?

You think?

You think their illegally rushing redistricting before communities can draw up their own district lines first? Is that why they’re going to change that law first, clearing the way for gerrymandering?

You think? Is the following comment a lie?

WSJ: “I don’t think we are rushing it at all,” said Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald.

You think? And finally:

Republican lawmakers now face criticism that their plans overstep the Legislature’s powers by requiring the state Supreme Court to create a panel to decide redistricting lawsuits.

You think? The Fitzgerald brothers are counting on the conservative activist Supreme Court to allow this violation of the separation-of-powers doctrine. This from the Republican legislature that just complained the courts shouldn’t get involved due to the separation-of-power doctrine when they passed the collective bargaining law.

My god damn head is spinning. The Justice Prosser majority is now getting its marching orders in the broad daylight.

As part of redistricting plans, the Supreme Court would have to assign a panel of judges from three circuit courts to hear legal challenges, and those suing would be barred from substituting any of the judges. Appeals of the panel’s rulings would be heard by the Supreme Court without going through the appeals court.

A bill drafter from the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau raised similar concerns.

“Please be aware that this draft requires the Supreme Court to take certain actions,” legislative attorney Peggy Hurley said in a July 1 note to Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald. “This may be in violation of the separation-of-powers doctrine and may be rejected by the Supreme Court on those grounds.”