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Texas is a lost cause.
I think you missed my point. Their being a lost cause doesn't mean we don't have to care about what they do. Their illegal gerrymandering affects all of us by cementing a republican majority in the US Congress.
I get your point. But it’s not illegal. The only way it would be illegal is if it was racially motivated, and that won’t ever be proven.
Texas won’t be stopped. The right wing has all but won. No one is doing anything about it and they’ll keep taking until we push back—which at this point I think is never.
The only reason this story is getting as much national attention is because of the Texas State House members literally doing something about it. And newsom and hochul and pritzker, all doing something about it
We should stop celebrating “doing something” and only celebrate “successfully preventing”
Thanks for the info that it's totally legal, I didn't realize that. So I guess the cases I've heard about where district boundaries were found illegal by a court must have been based solely on the racial discrimination aspect for violating a civil rights law or something (maybe the voting rights law that SCOTUS has been gutting step by step?)
I know there has always been plenty of gerrymandering, but there always seemed to be a limit to how far they went with it, so I stupidly thought there was some actual law limiting it in some way.