Supreme Court gives Texas the green light

[Missouri_Mike]

Yeah, typical RWNJ: "I got mine, **** everyone else".

You got yours years ago, deal with the blowback.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

You also just gave California and Virginia the green light to do the same. You guys are stealing democracy from millions of people in this country for what? A result that will now basically be a wash and you'll still lose the House anyway.

No, they will be stupid and base it on race, which violates the current law, dumbass! Texas did not do that, which is why their plan was approved.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

And did so in a way that was clearly race based.

As all the evidence shows.

Thats not legal.

So you are all for race as the primary factor in deciding congressional seats.

Yet you are bitching because the court wouldn’t uphold racism.

I don’t think you know what the **** to do here.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

We're reaching a point where elections are simply an illusion and the parties are appointing oligarchs to make decisions for us.

Democrats already did that when they anointed Kamala as their candidate without winning a single vote.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

When states lose population they lose congressional districts, and when states gain population the add congressional districts.
It's a math thing.

Still has nothing to do with what you quoted.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

By disadvantaging a race, illegally?

They have not. But you go ahead and keep playing dumb.

Neither did Texas. Game. Set. Match.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

No, they will be stupid and base it on race, which violates the current law, dumbass! Texas did not do that, which is why their plan was approved.

It’s amazing how crazy the left gets when you take their racism away. They absolutely lose their shit.

 

[leftwinger]

You also just gave California and Virginia the green light to do the same. You guys are stealing democracy from millions of people in this country for what? A result that will now basically be a wash and you'll still lose the House anyway.

Stuff it commee arsejack.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

By disadvantaging a race, illegally?

They have not. But you go ahead and keep playing dumb.

Their excuse for gerrymandering has always been to make sure certain districts remain racially separated.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Once again the MAGA wing of SCOTUS have shown to be so far up Trump's ass it's a wonder they can even breathe. Plus doing the bidding of their billionaire oligarch bosses.

Harland Crow's boy Thomas as an example has earned his keep. "Ya need anything MASSA? Cin I's make ya'll a drink, Massa? Cin I make ya'll somepin ta eat, Massa? Need anytin at the sto, Massa"?

Well that was racist as ****.

 

[Ringo]

 

[justoffal]

This is yet another disgraceful decision by the corrupt Roberts court that is also another nail in the coffin, for the Voting Rights Act.

Which, make no mistake, was part of the reason Republicans brought this fight.

We long ago figured out that racial gerrymandering, even IF done to achieve partisan advantage, is not okay. Whether you meant to be racist or not, too bad, find another way.

The conservatives ignored this. Their entire opinion amounted to, "Nuh uh, it was clearly done for partisan advantage only, and that's that." This is a stunning rebuke of the mountain of precedent and hard fought law on disallowing racial bias in gerrymandering, regardless of intent.

Then they chastised the lower court for rendering the decision just weeks before candidates are due to declare for a primary, marking a year long blackout period which, in general, covers at least 50% of our time on this planet, apparently. But no mention of the redistricting just months before an election.

This court gave to itself the power of the district court without presenting any clear error in the reasoning of the district court. This is not a normal Supreme Court.

Too many words to say nothing but a bundle of frustrated feelings. The Political manipulation of voting district boundaries has been going on for the past 75 years( at least) rampantly and unabated. The race card does little and nothing to highlight it, make it worse or make it better. It's just the same old tired, stupid race card which today has done absolutely nothing for anyone including the people it's supposed to benefit.

Stop your cry baby complaining and say thank you to Harry Reid in the grave for the predicament that you are in now. The left never ceases to seize the moment without foresight or any consideration of future consequences until the consequences become a reality.

 

[justoffal]

It’s odd, I can’t recall you having problems with democrats creating “creative” districts to advance either racial or political objectives.

FF is one of the most verbose hypocrites you will ever run across. He...she ....or it has an endless amount of energy to spit endless sums of vituperative political hackery completely devoid of any balance or fairness while at the same time self aggrandizing with a personal Halo of imagined self-righteousness.

But then again that's what makes this place so colorful.

Jo

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

Texas has about 3 million that are not being represented.
They deserve to have a congressperson

How?
Are they missing a congressperson or several?

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

Stuff it commee arsejack.

WTF?

What a stupid ******* comment.

Just because there aren't any republicans that won congressional seats, doesn't give them the 'right" to them, because they lost.

 

[WorldWatcher]

California worked out a deal with the Republicans decades ago for something like that and made is a Constitutional Amendment. The democrats just over-rode their Constitution to increase their ability to gerrymander the republican representation out of existence.

Kind of a one sided response don't cha' think?d

California put a measure to the people and the people voted, and the only reason that California even did that was because Trump/Taxas decided to perform an mid-census redistricting to squeeze out potential DEM districts from being able to elect DEM Representatives.

So if you want to blame someone, blame Trump/Abott/Texas for their actions, without them California wouldn't have put an initiative on the ballot.

WW

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

How?
Are they missing a congressperson or several?

There should be about 760k people per congressman, but the population of Texas has increased.
There should be about 4 more congressmen.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

There should be about 760k people per congressman, but the population of Texas has increased.
There should be about 4 more congressmen.

WTF?
No, there shouldn't.

It doesn't work like that.
The extra population gets absorbed into existing districts, until after the census.

 

[berg80]

Supreme Court Just Okayed One Neat Trick to Illegally Gerrymander Your State​

The Court just wrote a roadmap for illegal gerrymanders: Just wait to pass them until the “eve” of the election, and no one can stop you.

The Supreme Court was simply hamstrung, Justice Samuel Alito wrote, unable to knock down Texas’ hyper-partisan, likely racial gerrymander because the election it would govern is so close.

Said election, though, is a whopping 11 months away. Yet that near year of time — plus a March primary, which Texas could delay — counts as the “eve of an election,” Alito wrote in his concurrence, so close to voting that changing the maps risks confusing voters. He’s referring to the Purcell principle, which stems from a 2006 case that concerned a change in Arizona photo ID laws “weeks away” from the election.

Supreme Court Just Okayed One Neat Trick to Illegally Gerrymander Your State

The Supreme Court was simply hamstrung, Justice Samuel Alito wrote, unable to...

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It's not like the conservatives on the Court are fooling anyone with these hyper-partisan rulings. Just as clear is the fact they don't care who knows it.

 

[leftwinger]

WTF?

What a stupid ******* comment.

Just because there aren't any republicans that won congressional seats, doesn't give them the 'right" to them, because they lost.

40% "R" but zero "R" in the whole NE. Seems odd? Fruitcake much?