Tribune Editorial: Competitive elections — where no political party has a free ride — are necessary for democracy to function.
Their only concern is that the judiciary — state or federal — may move to put the interests of democracy ahead of their partisan power grabs. That the courts might put an end to the kind of political oppression that allows those in power to stay in power without threat of being turned out of office in a truly democratic process.
Such a set-up is not a good thing, of course. And, like all acts of every state legislature and of Congress, should be reviewable by the courts. It is the job of that branch of government to put a break on purely political actions, when those actions clearly violate any semblance of one-person, one-vote democracy. Which Utah’s congressional districts clearly and unashamedly do.
All the East Bench and West Side neighborhoods where yards display progressive signs might as well be on Mars for all the influence they have in picking a member of Congress. Their sometimes overwhelming votes for little-known and underfunded Democratic candidates cast in Salt Lake and Summit counties are deliberately drowned in the returns from the rest of their districts, which reach into the much-more-conservative counties, all the way to the Colorado and Arizona borders.
So far, no Republican in Congress has been heard to object to what is, according to the pro-gerrymandering argument of Utah’s delegation, the Roberts Court’s unconstitutional encroachment into exclusively congressional territory.
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