As the Framers of the Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment comprehended, representatives serve all residents, not just those eligible or registered to vote. Such a change would likely lead to a transfer of political influence away from urban areas that are younger and more racially diverse, and toward rural areas that are older and whiter.
I'm concerned that all of the advances that we made for the last 61 years are going to be eradicated. Charles Mauldin, 78, one of the marchers who was beaten that day, expressed this concern about potential Supreme Court limitations on the Voting Rights Act.
Holdman, for whatever reason, voted against Redistricting in Indiana, in a District that I won by 39 points, which puts the United States Congress in jeopardy. Holdman and his RINO friends made Indiana, a State I love and have been very good to, the only State in the Country that essentially said they don't care about what happens in the United States Congress.
The state Appellate Division, First Department cleared the way on Thursday for the New York State Board of Election to begin reconfiguring U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis' Congressional district. The decision comes a week after lawyers for Malliotakis New York City's only Republican member of Congress asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in the order to reconfigure her district a process that would most likely be unfavorable to her midterm reelection campaign.