My favorite part of this is that the redistricting would have had no problems in court if the Republicans had simply not talked about their race-related motives in public.
With that said, I don't have high hopes for the Supreme Court here.
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Have they tried not being fascists?
No.
Why would they abandon a course / mentality that's been working so well for them in Texas?
Texas? No... No, they have not.
Perfect opportunity to find out whether or not they're just going to falsely declare seats for the Republicans that they didn't actually win, like both the state and federal GOP have been working towards for several years
wasn't that unitary executive theory or something?
That's the pseudointellectual term for the theory of "the president gets to do whatever he wants because he's the president", yeah.
The elections specifically is just the "no smoke without a fire" approach to poll monitoring by people lugging around a barely concealed smoke machine, a zippo lighter, and a can of gasoline.
Womp womp.
I'm a little curious how this impacts CAs efforts, as I believe those were meant to be contingent on TX but with appeals existing and the timeframe, I'm not sure when or if they'll undo what they were going to do in CA. And CAs is pretty obviously not race driven, even if it's blatantly partisan (yet that's legal because fuck us).
Would be really funny though if this backfires such that Ds get more gerrymandered seats overall, though, lol.
CA lawmakers saw the writing on Texas’ glory hole wall and removed the “if Texas does” verbiage from prop 50 before it was put to vote. As it stands now, before appeals, CA gets to draw new lines, and TX can get fucked.
Hmm. Neat. I didn't mind Prop 50 mostly because it's a one off thing. Plus we already know Rs already are more represented in the house than they should be due to gerrymandering, so it's not like there aren't other states to offset, lol.
I think that requirement was removed.
Oops.
And of course the illegitimate, corrupt SCROTUS stepped in to allow the Republicans racist disenfranchisement.