if California voters approve Newsom’s plan and Democrats net the projected +5 seats, that would be enough by itself to flip the U.S. House majority from Republican to Democratic, given the current 219–216 split.

rig the system forever.

Fucking party of lawless power-mad idiots. Don't like it? Drop the Texas shit.

The Texas gerrymandering effort is the first shot of this generation's Fort Sumter attack.

Don't skip a beat with these m-effer's. Expose them widely.

while upholding Texas.

isn't the initiator and is even putting their redistricting to a vote, while the Republicans are doing this to cement their power forever and are acting unilaterally to do it, with no one else getting a say in the process and being punished if they so much as try.

Even if they don't have jurisdiction, they will assume jurisdiction and give Trump the win. The Thomas court is bought and paid for.

... you may be right, but I don't see it. Right now they are objecting to not being given 30 days notice under CA state rules and or laws. I don't see the SCOTUS getting involved in state legislative rules. I would think that o get to the SCOTUS they would have to sue raising some other objection.

said reactions when I said the SCOTUS would grant Trump immunity. And yet, here we are.

That was a made for SCOTUS issue that was going straight to the SCOTUS from the git-go. There was never any question that they would have to decide the issue, just what and how they would rule. I don't think the analogy holds. But we will see.

SCOTUS no longer even pretend to care about the Constitution, stare decisis, the law, or justice. The court is openly corrupt, and ideologically motivated. It has a White/Christian nationalist agenda it is going to see enacted. We can keep pretending this isn't so, or that former norms and checks are in place, but they are not. SCOTUS either rules directly for Trump, or stalls/defers rulings to Trump's benefit.

We are a de facto dictatorship. Procedures, jurisdiction, laws and processes are no longer followed. This administration does whatever it pleases with very little consequence.

This whole issue will be litigated all the way up to the election, will then be used to cause chaos during the election, and then pushed to SCOTUS after the election as an "urgent" matter. The six wholly owned justices will then rule in whatever manner gives MAGA the win.

I have been warning about this since Bush v. Gore.

... we will see what happens.

But I fear that they are not going to give up power peacefully.

if it's done by both sides.... Ask them if they are for what Texas and other red states are about to do.

How about those California Republicans talk to their pals in Texas and other red states to get them to stop their power grab? No? Then sit down and STFU.

Democratic lawyers and affiliates are gearing up to sue if or when the new redistricting maps are signed by Abbott. This is in additon to the ongoing redistricting case that will be amended to included the new map

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Democratic-aligned nonprofit, civil rights groups ready to sue over Texas congressional map

Several Democratic-aligned and civil rights groups are readying to sue over a proposed set of new congressional lines in Texas as lawmakers in the Lone Star State look to advance a GOP-friendly map ahead of…

— Today headline (@todayheadline.bsky.social) 2025-08-19T05:24:33Z