@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-05 19:11:04
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…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-05 00:30:54
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
@joe@toot.works2025-11-05 21:49:41
It's crazy how some of these gerrymandered districts look.
#Politics #USPol #USPolitics
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-05 01:47:18
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…
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange2025-11-01 05:45:41
Mike Schultz, the same weirdo from Hooper, Utah who thought he should have a say in my Millcreek representative choice by creating and funding a PAC that tried to trans scare people out of voting for the progressive candidate.
Thankfully, my neighbors and I like trans people and voted for a candidate that does, too.
Now, it appears Mike is using public funds to attack a judge who is following the law and upholding the power of the people, from whom the legislature gets its power…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-30 00:53:55
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…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-19 02:14:10
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…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-21 23:15:59
Republicans Are Making One of the Most Gerrymandered States in the Nation Even More Rigged (Ari Berman/Mother Jones)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/north-carolina-republicans-gerrymandering-trump-don-davis/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p129#a251021p129
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-27 23:24:14
Trump’s plan to rig the 2026 midterm election
by pressuring states to create more Republican congressional seats
will face a major test in a federal courtroom in El Paso, Texas
starting Wednesday,
as a panel of judges considers whether to block the state’s new gerrymandered map.
At stake in the hearing,
scheduled for ten days,
are as many as five congressional seats
— perhaps enough to determine control of Congress in next year’s midterms
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-14 21:15:41
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…
