The proposal would require the Texas Legislature to return for a special session to carry out the rare move of reshaping the state’s political boundaries mid-decade.
  • Carvex@lemmy.world
    38·
    12 days ago

    If you can’t win in a fair way because your ideas are fucking garbage, change how you count!

    Remember, they won’t abandon their ideas, they abandon democracy.

  • fluxion@lemmy.world
    English
    14·
    12 days ago

    Literally in response to Trump asking them to so they can win the midterms…

    But the Supreme Court will somehow say this is not blatant gerrymandering, or it’ll be “unfortunately” timed to not be applicable to the midterm results

    • e_t_@kbin.pithyphrase.net
      2·
      12 days ago

      In other cases, the Supreme Court has said gerrymandering is A-OK so long as it’s based on partisanship instead of race. And they’ll accept the most blatantly prextextual justification for why any particular district is partisan instead of racist.

  • sartalon@lemmy.world
    12·
    12 days ago

    I’m not saying this is/isn’t bullshit.

    But, there is no reasonable way they can redistrict anything in time for the midterms.

    Not to say that they still won’t try, potentially harming future elections even more.

    Plus, can you really get more gerrymandering out of this state?

    Brother in Christ, Crenshaw’s district is out of this world