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Abbott, lawmaker comments helped doom Texas’ new voting map (www.texastribune.org)
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[–] 32 points 11 months ago (11 children)

lol. And because Texas went ahead with gerrymandering before CA put prop 50 on the ballot, CA removed the “if Texas gerrymanders” clause from prop 50. Since it was happening, they yanked the unnecessary conditional logic.

So now, prop 50 is happening, but Texas is stuck in the mud, and the GOP might get the opposite of the corrupt thing they pushed for. Amazing.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago* (7 children)

    So as long as California is just doing partisan gerrymandering, and it's not racial, or at least hasn't said racial out loud, they're also in the clear from challenges given it was approved by voters?

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    Yup. Unless the SCOTUS comes up with some stupid way to prevent California from doing something red states have been doing for years, but without voter approval.

    But California and Newsom were pretty clear about this being 1000% about balancing political party power.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    So do you think he might back off given Texas cant now?

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    TX is going to appeal to the Supreme Court. TX still stands a very good chance of getting their maps.

    Also, you can’t really fuck with districts at the last minute. You need time for candidates and elections officials to organize around them.

    Also, the GOP is trying this shit in other states.

    CA needs to just assume the worst out what the GOP put in motion. This is too hard to counteract late in the game, which is why all this stuff if started going down a year and a half in advance.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    I had no idea they removed that. Dang.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, the final text basically called out a ton of states and operated with the assumption that some GOP gerrymandering was going to happen since efforts were pretty firmly in motion. The button had been already pressed by other states.

    https://vig.cdn.sos.ca.gov/2025/special/pdf/text-proposed-law.pdf

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    • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    SCOTUS has already blocked the ruling

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