WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed California to use a new voter-approved congressional map that is favorable to Democrats in this year’s elections, rejecting a last-ditch plea from state Republicans and the Trump administration.
No justices dissented from the brief order denying the appeal without explanation, which is common on the court’s emergency docket.
I’m not sure how to feel about this, TBH.
I wish it were federally mandated that districts could only be redrawn after a new US Census, and to me, that gerrymandering has been overtly and publicly normalized and made legally permissible this year is an eminently bad thing.
But at least one state very publicly fought back.
Its justification that red states can do whatever the fuck they want.
Do you honestly think they lacked the justification already?
Do you not remember this is a response to Texas gerrymandering all on their own?
Please explain what you mean
If it’s right, it’s right. If it’s wrong, it’s wrong. It doesn’t matter what color state and for what political shift it is trying to achieve.
This is not the first time California (and other states before Texas) have redistricted. Sadly it probably won’t be the last.
But it’s an erroneous stance to say it’s okay because hey other guy did it.
No the reason it’s ok is because it helps stop actual deranged fascists from gaining further control
Your principles are a luxury borne of false notions and propaganda
I’m prone to think that one group having rights and another group not having them solely based on who they are is more of a fascist belief than the opposite view.
But I’m not here to argue with you, I was just trying to give a perspective because you asked for an explanation.
The Supreme Court is authorizing it because they want the Texas gerrymandering to be legit, and pave the way for all the red states to do it.
Gerrymandering is legal in America already you just can’t do it by race
The Supreme Court confirmed Texas and California didn’t do it by race it has nothing to do with whether or not other red states can gerrymander
You could always gerrymander you just can’t do it by race
Exactly, and the Supreme Court could have stopped that in its decision, but it didn’t, because it served the conservative party’s ends.
Stopped it how?
There’s no constitutional or federal law against gerrymandering except you can’t do it by race…
States have to make gerrymandering illegal at the state level which many have otherwise it’s only illegal if you gerrymandered by race
If you think the Supreme Court needs a specific law to rule on something, you’ve sadly ignored much history of Supreme Court decisions. A large percentage of their work is handwavey opinions based on biased interpretations of obscure and irrelevant documents.
Yes, it’s supposed to work the way you described it, but it hasn’t for some time now.
Ok but we don’t like the Supreme Court decisions that are made up and not based in law or logic
They also obviously couldn’t have given who sits on it
What you’re really asking for is a united progressive Democratic Party that passes actual legislation ensuring fair elections
And apparently blue states too.
Welcome to America, where everything is made up, and the votes don’t matter!
Right, they are making a gamble that red states are going to abuse it faster and harder than blue states.
It’s not a gamble. The red states outnumber blue states.
The fun thing, though, is when an unpopular leader realizes that they are so unpopular that they can’t even gerrymander because it may backfire.
But the blue states have more voters and more districts.