SCOTUS upholds Arizona nonpartisan redistricting commision

[Lance_Turbo]

@Saint_Cad

What we are arguing is the interpretation that the people under the initiative processes are the Legislature discussed in the Elections clause.

But that argument was heard by the Supreme Court and dismissed.

[Saint_Cad]

@Lance_Turbo

But that argument was heard by the Supreme Court and dismissed.

Incorrectly IMHO

[UltraVires]

@Really_Not_All_That_Bright

If Arizona had tried to do away with representative government entirely, I would agree with you. It’s clear, however, that some level of direct democracy is constitutionally permissible or we wouldn’t have voter initiatives in the first place.

But this type of direct democracy completely supplants the representative body leaving it powerless (at least on this issue). We might as well say that Cuba is a republic since they have elected bodies and a “President.”