New maps that added
five Republican districts in Texas
hit a legal roadblock on Tuesday,
with a federal judge saying
the state cannot use the 2025 maps
because they are probably “racially gerrymandered”.
The decision is likely to be appealed,
given the push for more Republican-friendly congressional maps nationwide
and Donald Trump’s full-court press on his party to make them.
A panel of three federal judges in Texas said in a decision t…
Supreme Court Conservatives Reinstate Texas' Gerrymandered House Maps (Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme-court-conservatives-reinstate-texas-gerrymandered-house-maps
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p124#a251204p124
It would be pretty funny if a D-tilted environment
coupled with trying to dilute D votes by gerrymandering them into heavily red districts
resulted in a much bigger blowout than if they hadn’t gerrymandered
https://bsky.app/profile/adamgurri.liberalcurre…
It's crazy how some of these gerrymandered districts look.
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Court rejection of rigged "racially gerrymandered" Republican #TX voting #redistricting maps hinged on #Drumpf #DOJ dubious declarations and h…
The conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court
has cleared the way for Texas to use a gerrymandered congressional map in next year’s midterm elections
that a lower court found racially discriminatory.
The 6-3 ruling is another political win for Donald Trump and his allies,
who have gotten a number of favorable rulings from the justices after being stymied by lower courts.
Trump has asked Republican-led states to redraw their maps
in order to preserv…
The Supreme Court, in a Thursday evening order, put on hold a lower court ruling that blocked Texas’ aggressive gerrymander,
a maneuver the state legislature carried out on orders from the Trump administration and the president himself,
hoping to preserve Republicans’ majority in the U.S. House in 2026.
In a brief order, the Court argued, among other things, that the District Court had intervened to block the maps too close to next year’s midterm election.
Justice Sam A…
In Miami last night,
𝗘𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝘆𝗼𝗿’𝘀 𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝟯𝟬 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀.
She didn’t just win; she defeated a candidate endorsed by both Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis in a city that has trended heavily Republican in recent cycles.
In Georgia, Democrat 𝗘𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗚𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗹𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗱 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝘄𝗼𝗻 𝗯𝘆 𝟭𝟮 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘀.
He didn’t do it in a blue stronghold. He did it in deep red territory that had been purposely gerrymandered to …
Republicans are hanging on to their majority in the House by a thread.
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s abrupt resignation means that a reliable red House seat will remain unfilled for months.
However, it is what is happening in a special House election in Tennessee that should be terrifying Republicans.
Tennessee’s Seventh US House district is not a race that, in a normal year, anyone would consider to be ripe for flipping.
Republicans have heavily gerrymandered the distri…