Today at The Federalist, I wrote a follow-up to my piece on the gerrymandering fight in Pennsylvania and why the state legislature is right to impeach rogue justices.
Today at The Federalist, I wrote a follow-up to my piece on the gerrymandering fight in Pennsylvania and why the state legislature is right to impeach rogue justices.
The Pennsylvania high court isn’t alone in being more partisan than exercising judicial impartiality. Colorado’s Cheif Justice selects some members of our Reapportionment Commission. We’ve had this system for four censuses. In all cases the Chief Justice handed the party of the Governor who had appointed her/him a group of nominees who always sided, in the final analysis, with that governor’s party.
And, considering congressional redistricting plans created by the legislature, the court has regularly sided with Democrats … most notably when they approved breaking up Colorado’s Western Slope in order to create a Pine Bark Beetle district. (That’s Jarod Polis’s district.) The vast majority of justices were, no surprise, appointed by Democratic governors.