Mark Gaber

👨🏼‍⚖️Sr. Director of Redistricting @campaignlegal. Father of Reba 🐾. Aspiring baker/sitcom actor. 🏳️‍🌈Views my own.

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

Contiguous 😊

[Dan Shafer @DanRShafer]

The new Democratic majority in the Wisconsin State Legislature.

Senate: 18-15
Assembly: 53-46

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

Bad night for gerrymandering - NC, AL, TX, TN, FL, MO. And Tarrant County, where the gerrymander not only didn't work, but COST the GOP a commissioners precinct. Now's the time for a national ban!

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

@mattyglesias We have granite curbs.

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

@okayheyjay This is a classic: https://t.co/4n4VF0XlOM

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

“It’s disappointing we used an unlawful map in the primary in a misguided scheme to have an illegal general election.” - fixed it for you!

[Governor Mike Kehoe @GovMikeKehoe]

It is disappointing that today’s decision by the United States Supreme Court means Missouri will conduct its November general election under a different congressional map than its primary election.

Voters deserved consistency and certainty, and not for the rules to be changed between elections.

Nevertheless, Missouri will follow the Court’s order.

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

Two notable things from SCOTUS: 1) it should have been “no surprise” to CA8 and the district court that they were wrong to defy two SCOTUS orders and 2) SOS Hoskins is to blame, not the Mo. S.Ct. Broader message - neither Supreme Court will be a tool in SOS’s bad faith delay.

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

BREAKING - SCOTUS restores 2022 Mo map.

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

@justin_ryland And a subsequent cert petition and a subsequent SCOTUS adjudication of that petition. The same words SCOTUS used for every stay it grants. Unsatisfied with that sequence of events, the court of appeals issued the same injunction under a different title. That’s the problem.

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

As we await SCOTUS re Missouri, consider how non judicious CA8’s conduct is. The only adverse party was before the district court for *2 hrs* total. No one moved for judgment or a permanent inj. CA8 declared the trial proceedings done so they could bypass SCOTUS stay. 1/

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

@justin_ryland SCOTUS stayed the timeline. That’s the whole point of a stay.

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

There are other big flaws (three judge court statute, issuing an injunction that on its face results in NO map). But the magnitude of CA8’s abandonment of the rule of law in this case warrants great attention. That we are at SCOTUS a 3d time after votes have been cast is absurd.

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

It is implausible to read the SCOTUS stay of the TRO as a plea to CA8 to change the title on the injunction, keep the exact same relief, and issue it CLOSER to the election and after voting started. 6/

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

The 8th Circuit cannot convert an appeal of a TRO re Missouri's map into a final merits decision and order the precise same relief SCOTUS has already stayed. It's difficult to summon sufficient words to describe how egregious that is. Our 3rd SCOTUS brief: https://t.co/xJPtKRWlmz

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

@joshgerstein This is a case study for the use of commas :)

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

@joshgerstein Wrong!! Opposite! Stay of TRO granted unanimously

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

BREAKING - SCOTUS unanimously stays the trial court’s TRO. 2022 map in effect