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California Approves New House Maps in a Major Win for Democrats and Newsom (www.nytimes.com)
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The aggressive gerrymander could help Democrats flip as many as five House seats next year. While that could neutralize new maps in Texas, Republicans are redrawing more district lines elsewhere.

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[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 39 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

64 to 35

Motherfucking landslide

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 3 months ago

AND IN COMES CALIFORNIA WITH THE STEEL CHAIR!

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is ILLEGAL! You're NOT supposed to Ask your Constituents to VOTE on Whether they want THIS or NOT! You're supposed to do just DO IT and IGNORE your Constituents!

[–] chillpanzee@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The US Supreme Court will probably come up with an even dumber reason invalidate Prop 50. I imagine we'll know pretty soon.

[–] teft@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The supreme court doesn’t have jurisdiction for state elections so how would they invalidate it?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Civil rights law covers district maps. If they want to invalidate it, they can pretend it discriminates against whites.

Edit: Republicans are now claiming exactly that in court

[–] chillpanzee@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Term Limits, Inc v Thornton and Bates v Jones are both cases where the federal courts ruled on similar issues (California ballot propositions). I'm not a legal scholar, but if federal courts can determine jurisdiction in those cases, why wouldn't they in this one?

Never mind the "who's gonna stop them" issue.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

Oops all Democrats!

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

Oh thank goodness.

[–] thrawn21@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Hell yeah!