The Supreme Court is allowing California to use its new congressional map for this year’s midterm election, clearing the way for the state’s gerrymandered districts as Democrats and Republicans continue their fight for control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
The state’s voters approved the redistricting plan last year as a Democratic counterresponse to Texas’ new GOP-friendly map, which President Trump pushed for to help Republicans hold on to their narrow majority in the House.
And in an unsigned order released Wednesday, the high court’s majority denied an emergency request by the California’s Republican Party to block the redistricting plan. The state’s GOP argued that the map violated the U.S. Constitution because its creation was mainly driven by race, not partisan politics. A lower federal court rejected that claim.
Aka the supreme court couldnt figure out how to argue this without making themselves look even more like clowns OR they have a plan B.
In guessing plan B. If California can use this democrat friendly slanted map then every other state can use whatever conservative slanted maps they draw up.
Plan B for sure. It smells like “Fine, gerrymander CA, we’re gonna rig the shit out of this election anyway. Good luck, byeee!”
This is my exact take too. Opening the floodgates for ultra gerrymandered maps.
I don’t know enough about how all this works. Would it be possible for them to time in coordinated map changes, and outpace any kind of coordinated democratic response right before an election?
Each state has their own rules and laws. I think the bigger problem is that the majority of states are run by republican legislatures so even if democrat run states went tit for tat with each map change the repugnants would have an advantage.
I wonder how much flexibility is possible with Congressional districts? Does a district even have to correlate to a geographic area? Could a state separate its districts, say, by age?
Imagine what that would look like. Each state gets the same number of districts it does otherwise. If a state has five representatives, its population pyramid would be divided into five equal-area chunks. People in each of those chunks would then vote together. So the youngest 20% vote for one representative, the next 20% vote for another, etc. The boundaries would shift automatically. There would be no possibility of an unfair district, as you’re basically just lining up your entire state’s population in a line sorted by age, dividing the line into equal chunks, and asking people in each of those groups to pick a representative. It would cancel out a lot of the effects of differing voting rates by age.
I think plan B is the ice agents at poking locations they announced today.
That’s plan A.
They were already using it, California did this to get those banned and failed.
Is it really failing when you so often seem to wind up on the same team?
California Gov. Gavin Newsom doubles down on his criticism of the proposed billionaire wealth tax
Sometimes it feels like Trump was the response of a crazy abusive asshole (Thiel/Musk/broligarchs) who “tried to do things the nice way by giving you somebody like Gavin Newsome,” but since people didn’t want that he decided to show how crazy he can really be for a 4 years to wear you down the next time around (if you’re lucky enough to even get a next time around).
Then threatening this bullshit of “if you expect me to pay taxes, you’re going to regret it. I’m warning you… you’re going to be so sorry once I’m gone”
It’s like stop flapping your fucking gums and leave already you piece of shit, nobody wants you, and we’re already in the toilet with you here. America can do bad all by herself. At least then we won’t have to deal with your bullshit on top of everything else.
Anyway, long winded way of saying, I don’t trust Gavin Newsome anymore than I trust Peter Thiel. Fuck them both.
Just because they’re on the same side doesn’t mean they aren’t greedy.
More Dems in office means more bribes for them.
Like more bribes from the Dems or more Dems willing to accept bribes? Either way, that’s my point. It’s not really a Dems vs Republican problem when it comes to a Newsome Dem. vs. a Republican. It’s a problem of a bipartisan oligarchy seeking to destroy what’s left of a democracy.
You could argue it’s already been destroyed, but then that just leads back to the question of why bother wasting money on all the theatrics and big threats if they really are untouchable? Why would they need to make this campaign attacking a billionaire tax? Why would the supreme court need to give California the ok before giving the red states the same blessing?
More dems = more power = more bribes.
If Republicans can pass anything why bribe anyone else?
It’s both actually. The justices beholden to Trumpanzee were informed that the election will be stolen anyway and so the fallout from them “looking even more like clowns” wasn’t necessary.
they would have to admit that the GOP states are doing it unfairly, which they dont want to get on the news.
Oh yeah I’ve talked to trump supporters about it