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In a previous letter, I stated no one agrees with the U.S. Supreme Court decisions 100% of the time … a statement I stand by.

In a recent Supreme Court “bad” decision, the court ruled states could redistrict before the next census (in 2030). Thus, several states “red” and “blue,” have begun a mad redistricting race to gerrymander their congressional districts before the upcoming midterms.

The Supreme Court should have ruled states can not redistrict until after the 2030 census. Now states will be redistricting every two years, after the mid-term elections.

Also, the high court should have ruled each state’s redistricting should have, as accurately as possible, reflected each state’s political makeup, with no gerrymandering. For example, Virginia has eleven congressional districts, with, currently, six Democratic districts and five Republican districts. Virginia’s voting bloc currently consists of approximately 54% democratic voters and 46% republican voters. Thus, Virginia’s congressional districts “fairly” represent its voter makeup.

Sadly, after the high court ruling, Virginia attempted to gerrymander their congressional map to ten Democratic districts and one Republican district. Had this been done, the majority of Republicans in Virginia would have no representation in the U.S. House. Thankfully, this gerrymandering was stopped by the Virginia Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by the Commonwealth of Virginia of its state supreme court’s decision.

Also worth mentioning, several New England states, with 35% to 40% of their voters voting Republican, have no Republican congressional districts and thus no Republican congressional representation in D.C. This is blatant gerrymandering.

Congress should step up and enact a redistricting law, allowing redistricting only once a decade, after each census and requiring each state fairly divide their districts based on their party affiliation, with no gerrymandering, to counter the U.S. Supreme Court’s “bad” decision.

TV news recently reported on Chinese “anchor babies.” The communist Chinese government is sending their pregnant women into the U.S. to give birth to their babies, who are then American citizens, through birthright citizenship. They are thus returned to China for 20 years, educated to be anti-American, then returned to America, with all the rights as citizens to spread pro-communist, anti-American propaganda.

SCOTUS will soon have the opportunity to end birthright citizenship for babies of non-citizens, but I have little faith they will do the right thing, concerning birthright citizenship.

Steve Wolverton

Parkersburg