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BumRushDaShow

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4. Could be that when the original language was drafted
Wed Aug 27, 2025, 05:22 AM
Aug 27

Texas was still working through their legislative process that is now done (where it was uncertain whether the TX House (D)s would stay away through the end of the calendar year, which they didn't).

What is missing now is Abbott's signature, and CA basically stole Abbott's blowhard thunder. TX also has a bit of a harder issue due to their map being done via racial gerrymandering, a violation of the VRA. Of course "Daddy" John Roberts could use that to torpedo what is left of the VRA.

Meanwhile, early polling (although I hate polls because they have been awful the past decade) in CA has the voters generally approving as a majority -


(Berkeley Poll)


(Berkeley Poll)

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-22/la-times-berkeley-poll-on-redistricting

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