# What happened to Bricker?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [August 25, 2018, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249 "2018-08-25T09:51:59Z")
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### Author: ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2018, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249/148 "2018-08-30T20:10:27Z")

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> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> What an incredibly ungenerous interpretation. It wasn’t just any member of the general assembly; it’s the member responsible for drawing the maps. It’s not just any statement; it’s the statement that the court said represents a choice that “is not a choice the Constitution allows legislative mapdrawers to make.”

Yes, true enough. But against that ungenerous interpretation, I have the inescapable experience that quite often, in these discussions, “unconstitutional,” is simply a synonym for “bad public policy.” I maintain that I’m absolutely entitled to ask anyone making a claim on unconstitutionality what the specific textual basis is for the claim.

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> You fucked up here, in a way that you often fuck up. Why not do better, do the things that you really do well? You still haven’t explained in that thread (I believe) your rationale for thinking that this gerrymandering doesn’t violate Article I or the first or fourteenth amendments; why not do that, instead of trying to score some cheap-ass points and then being all petulant and “stoopid liberals ha ha” when called on it?

Sure, I could (again) delve into the details. But how much typing time would that take? Longer, I assure you, than the bare assertion **Aescwynn** took to make.

Which turns debate on its head: I’m expected to respond to single-paragraph summaries with detailed argument, and not allowed to demand specifics, in the name of generosity? Why can’t my opponents be equally generous, and lay out their claims, which as proponents of a position it is their burden to do?

But OK. Sure. I’ll post back in that thread. Because I am your monkey.

(Non-racially, of course.)

And I can already foresee what will happen: a chorus similar to this:

> [@NC Federal House Districts unconstitutionally gerrymandered](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nc-federal-house-districts-unconstitutionally-gerrymandered/806306/136):
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> I, for one, could give two flying eagles whether or not it’s constitutional (and don’t know enough to have an opinion on that). It clearly breaks Democracy, and so is morally and philosophically wrong.

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