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 think they may have signaled to Trump that they were going to rule this way and that’s why the regime is talking about federalizing elections in blue states.
Could be.
I don’t think it’s clear to Donald because he is constitutionally incapable of confronting bad polling data, and Republicans assuredly have an abundance of negative internal polling data, but he’s managed to make himself so unpopular that not even gerrymandering is looking like it can save his majority. (Which is why they stopped doing it.)
His musings on federalizing blue state elections are just that, though: Musings. If they can’t get Minnesota to buckle, they can’t get California or New York to buckle. And dialing up the aggression will only make that more true, not less, and aggression is all Donald knows.
I think it far more likely he’ll try to get a Trump check out to voters before the elections, personally. It would be a whole lot easier to tack another trillion in debt onto the national debt to accomplish the goal of keeping his majority.
Yeah he’ll send out a check and say it’s paid for by the tariffs or something.
I also think sending ICE to intimidate voters is likely. Might even be seizing voter registration data to make a list of enemies that need to be harassed and intimidated into not voting.
He can try, but there’s no reason to think the 2026 elections won’t be a repeat of the 2025 elections, where two dozen red districts flipped in several states, many of which Donald won by double digits in 2024. ICE doesn’t have the manpower to handle that level of unpopularity, and dialing up the violence will only exacerbate Donald’s unpopularity further.
I think there’s reason to believe that voter intimidation works; that’s how Reconstruction was defeated and how the white minority dominated minority-majority districts for nearly a century. White terrorism was basically the norm through most of US history.
The regime is acting like popularity is irrelevant, and that only approval from their base matters. I think that tells us their plans.
The key word here is ‘acting’.
And, at the same time, ignoring all evidence to the contrary, resulting in the recent bloodbaths at the polls. I’m fine with them shooting themselves in the foot in their refusal to approach electoral politics like grownups.
Voter intimidation only works if you know who to intimidate, and clearly, they do not. It’s why they stopped with the crazy overt gerrymandering.
The recent bloodbaths at the polls are happening without voter intimidation, hence, they’re going to start employing it.
Why do you think Tulsi Gabbard just raided Georgia? They want a list of the people they need to intimidate.
I don’t follow. Their entire campaign of aggression has been against Democrats and Democratic areas.
It is voter intimidation, and not only did it backfire, it destroyed their own coalition. They’re losing by double digits in both red and blue districts, and I don’t see how voter intimidation works when both sides have turned on you.
Yes, the Georgia thing looks bad now, just like all the EO’s that took weeks and months for the courts to invalidate. Checks and balances are working, they just don’t work instantaneously.