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https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-texas-redistricting-trump-republicans-discrimination-c1bbf88e2a1f7d49cda512b8ef165750
Nov 22, 2025 11:13 AM
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https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-texas-redistricting-trump-republicans-discrimination-c1bbf88e2a1f7d49cda512b8ef165750
oldguyexlurker
I did NAZI that coming. (jk... anyone who didn't see that coming was a fool.)
etherbunny41
Remind them who they work for: https://blackoutthesystem.com/
ImHereToGetDownvotes
They'll block it for now, then delay taking the issue up until March and then they'll go "Well we can't overturn anything now, it's too close to primaries / elections!" It's the usual Republican playbook.
awholelotofnothin
Here's the thing - If the Supreme Court ignores all legal precedence and equal justice, voted to allow bribes for itself, and can choose all manner of corrupt "laws" to allow fascism to destroy the country's government, why obey it? All laws only exist by the consent of the governed or by the rule of force. Stop consenting to their rule of force.
UncleScarwasright
Sam Alito strikes again.
ToolPackinMama
As was foretold
mmckee44
This isn't quite accurate. This was a preliminary ruling that is done by ONE SCOTUS by himself and not the full SCOTUS. So this wasn't SCOTUS that ruled but Alito, one of the traitors to the constitution currently on SCOTUS.
DonL9
Alito is probably the worst of the bunch right now. He'd love a real life Gideon. Fuck him.
lolfighter
"We have discovered this congressional map is racist."
"What? We forbid this from being true!"
chaotropicagent
Shadow docket: nah
Mirrormancer
Supreme Joke.
TofuGolem
The US is a racist shithole.
wseslar
Something something states rights and small government
evilspock
Listen closer:
"STATE'S RIGHTS when it's in our favor..."
They usually omit that second part, but it always applies.
RigidGristle
MasterMookie
RElGNMAN
Interesting, usually they stop something from being allowed until the appeal gets a court ruling. This seems to ignore that typical stance, so that something questionable and potentially illegal can continue in favor of Republicans by a Republican leaning Supreme Justice.
lpooptoomuch
they got a year to rule on it before the next election so it makes no difference until then.
hogeyegrex
Primaries are in March.
DVSBSTrD
But hey, at least Hillary wasn't elected. So this is really the best possible outcome.
Elonth
yeah yeah we've heard about trumps emails. But what about her emails just being on an insecure server?!
TheWombatStrikesAgain
I mean, can you imagine? A woman? So emotional, she would've thrown international tantrums about trivialities like a malfunctioning escalator. And vindictive, she would have used the justice system to persecute critics. And let's not forget her horrible record on corruption and security, she would sold the country to the highest bidder or accidentally leaked secret information out of sheer incompetence.
Good thing the American voters made sure you don't have to worry about any of that. /s
chingadamadrex
Don’t forget a woman would probably start wars or instigate trouble in other countries for absolutely no reason or lack of control of their emotions….
I can’t stand the guy… just listening to him puts me in a shitty mood….
KR1570F
anyone wanna bet that they leave the california map change alone instead of obviously showing their bias?
Roaddog184
Remember, the California map redraw was voted on and approved by the voters. Not rammed through by the state legislature. They valued the voters choice not telling the voters what they think is best like Texas.
KR1570F
right, which is exactly why this piece of shit line up of supreme clowns is going to take issue with the california map. The authoritarian nutjobs just hate anyone who dares to actually listen to or value the citizens and constituents.
medimr
Doesn't really matter. They'll probably find some meaningless justification for striking the CA map down while upholding whatever garbage the pedophile states get up to.
icantbelieveistillhavetoprotestthiscrap
I want to go slap everyone who spent 2024 smugly telling me it was more important to send a message to the Democrats about Gaza than it was keeping the literal fascist out of the Oval Office.
PhurbuMukpodom
The insufferable bOtH sIdEs lot…
doctorId
I think the main problem with each party's voters is that too many GOP voters think their guy is infallible, and too many dem voters demand that theirs be.
freshthrowaway1138
Well here's a repeat from 2016,
icantbelieveistillhavetoprotestthiscrap
Roe overturned? And Trump bragged about it? Too bad ladies, I've got a STATEMENT to make! What's that? Trump will be objectively worse for the Palestinians? Fuck off, Palestinians. I've got to let the Democrats know I don't like the way they're treating the Palestinians! Hoo boy, my farts smell delicious. I'm a left wing voter, and I'm better than you! /s
Chicagorooftop
In our two party system, sending a message to the less evil party only backfires on you. The Gaza war was kept going by Trump/Bibi because they knew that they could force Dems to own the horrible killing and Dems were trapped. Go against Israel before an election has always been deadly. Just doing nothing wipes off your college lefties. Now you're dead. To sum up: Trump pushed a genocide that killed Harris. Brilliant and horrible. So: always vote against the most evil choice or....
icantbelieveistillhavetoprotestthiscrap
Yep. It was obvious and I tried explaining it to people but they would just shriek "I AM NOT VOTING FOR GENOCIDE". Some of them have spent the time desperately trying to help the Palestinians, most simply refuse to talk politics anymore.
Chicagorooftop
You could watch it happening live, and you could see Trump basically outsmarting the "smart people" for the months leading up to the election. He had help from Israel, but he is president because the left took the bait.
leperoutcastunclean
I want things my lawyer has advised me not to express.
putcleverusernamehere
Seriously. Actually, I want things I try to push out of my mind because even I don't like me being that kind of human. But I definitely want them
BeaverOnFire
DarthWaiterSE
Just make a better lawyer! With blackjack and hookers!
BeaverOnFire
medimr
Inb4 they let them keep their shitty racist maps and it ends up being a dummymander anyway.
cousteau
Is a dummymander when you fuck up a gerrymander and actually lose votes?
mardukkur
Yeah, you try to dilute the opposition vote to create more seats but every individual seat is a bit less secure so any kind of wave election ends up hurting you more than it would otherwise.
cousteau
JaceTiger
Or better yet, pissing off so many that the gerrymandering just doesn't work at all. Like not a spectacular backfire, just so many leftist votes that they can cover up the losses.
Elonth
I don't think you understand how Gerrymandering works. It is not a total vote. Its about isolating sections of the state into groups. Whoever wins the groups get 1 collective electoral vote. Then like most states whoever wins the majority vote of those collective electoral votes gets all of them. Yes it is very stupid. The electoral college was specifically made so those in power could keep the will of the masses in check as a safety measure. At the time good. Nowadays its only abused.
medimr
This has nothing to do with the Electoral College. These are specifically congressional maps.
JaceTiger
As I said in another comment: if people get complacent, they might be so sure they're gonna win, then they don't vote. The other side turns out and wins. I've seen it happen.
Doesn't really matter how you divvy it up, if less than 1/4 of your side votes, and 90% of the opponent's side votes, unless you've built up one hell of a supermajority.
Elonth
if 70% of all democrate leaning voters live in 1 disctrict all they have to do is fit them all in the same district. Then no matter how many democrats show up the state will still be full red.
JaceTiger
See "supermajority". I didn't mean in just number of voters, I also meant by district. And outside of the wide open spaces states, it's hard to divide them up like that.
cousteau
Gerrymandering basically means putting most voters of party X in some districts and distributing the rest carefully across the rest of districts so that they're like 49% X, 51% Y. Which is an extremely dangerous game because it's easy enough to miscalculate and actually have all those 49% turned into 51% on many districts.
JaceTiger
Yes, I know, but just like when people assumed Kamala was gonna win, so they didn't vote (I know a few that were so certain they just didn't bother to vote)
cousteau
Ugh. Tell them I said they're fucking idiots.