Mark Gaber

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

[Campaign Legal Center @CampaignLegal]

The Supreme Court has turbocharged the redistricting battles.

"What we're really going to see is a state of perpetual redistricting. With each election cycle, if one party benefits, they will take that power and use it," says @markpgaber.
https://t.co/3IGWFZPUNI

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

@joeminocqua Chris Taylor is winning our shared home - Oneida County - 52-48 (including having won Minocqua) before any results from Rhinelander have been reported!

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

Giant mirrors should be erected in the Utah capitol building.

[Robert Gehrke @RobertGehrke]

There is a LOT of stuff to unpack in Todd's thread here. So let's break it down, shall we?

It is true that about 220k people signed the petition. About 30% were invalid. Another ~9K removed their signatures.

That was the tally over about 100 days of signature gathering. The ..

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

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[Robert Gehrke @RobertGehrke]

Prop 4 repeal update: A big day for removals in Senate District 15. There were 185 people who removed signatures, dropping the margin in that district down to 354 (from 858 just two days ago).

Where it stands:
SD15: -185 (Now +354)
SD12: -16 (+506)
SD10: -19 (+607)

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

@joeminocqua Take it from the three-judge federal court, not me: https://t.co/rOYLCU6zPS

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

@joeminocqua @ElectionCenter_ Except that Evers' map (enacted by GOP legislature) splits fewer counties than the 2021 map (33 v. 45), fewer than half as many municipalities (33 v. 71), and scores significantly higher on compactness metrics.

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

This went so well the first time.

[Lindsay Aerts @LindsayOnAir]

AMENDMENT D 2.0? GOP Senate leaders say they will be bringing the amendment to the ballot in 2026 over the power of initiatives, and are hinting at a special session instead of addressing before the end of this legislative session. @abc4utah #utpol
https://t.co/uoLiZDDVZg

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

@SJonNantucket That's not correct. The Legislature had from Aug 25-Oct 6 and they passed another map, Map C, that was also unlawful. Then the Legislature declined *Plaintiffs'* suggestion that the parties jointly request a ruling prior to Nov. 10.

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

BREAKING - Sweeping victory upholding fair congressional map in Utah. The three-judge federal court unanimously rules that Judge Gibson had the power and obligation under federal law to impose Map 1 https://t.co/7poyG9XOsa

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

The months of attacks about the power of the court to impose a map - all wrong. As SCOTUS has held for decades, if a legislature declines to pass a lawful map, state courts must impose one. The Utah Legislature chose to violate Prop 4. Utahns will now finally have a fair map.

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

@joeminocqua @RedistrictNet That's not a district that exists. It was part of a rejected proposal. Also, it's not the "Evers map" - it's Wisconsin law. The map was enacted by the GOP legislature and signed into law by the Governor.

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

@kylewilsontharp @readchaoticera That open rate!

[The Redistrict Network @RedistrictNet]

#BREAKING: The Indiana Senate has voted 19-31 to reject the proposed Indiana congressional map.

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

Incredible show of bipartisan patriotism and commitment to democracy by the Indiana Senate rejecting an egregious mid-decade gerrymander.

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

“Fair Lines America” 🤔

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

DOJ and Abbott demanded that the map eliminate multiracial majority districts. The map did exactly that, and the legislators loudly proclaimed it over and over and over. That's racial gerrymandering.

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

As we tell SCOTUS in our brief, this is not a close case. DOJ cannot demand that states dismantle districts on account of race. And states cannot heed that demand. Gov. Abbott proclaimed on TV that the map was drawn on the basis of race. That's illegal.

[Brad Johnson @bradj_TX]

The Brooks respondents, one segment of the original plaintiffs against the Texas map, have filed their response to SCOTUS: https://t.co/rJgcx6J5x9

"The federal government cannot insist that a state dismantle districts on account of race. States cannot dismantle districts on account of race. This Court hears hard cases. This is not a hard case."

[Mark Gaber @markpgaber]

And Texas's primary defense is that the out-of-state mapdrawer is the relevant state actor, not the Governor or Legislator. As we tell SCOTUS, good luck finding mention of Adam Kincaid in the Texas Constitution.