Texas' rigged map hits the rocks

[B.See]

Texas' rigged map hits the rocks - Dailykos

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Or, more to the point, what’s bad for the goose is very bad for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s gerrymander. 

Abbott and his fellow Republican lawmakers are probably currently digesting this 160-page mic drop from the United States District Court in El Paso. Turns out that Texas’ attempt to rig elections with a mid-decade redistricting turned out to be a racial gerrymander. Which, it turns out, is still illegal! Even for Texas! Who knew?

Tuesday’s ruling throws out the 2026 congressional maps that Texas Republicans pushed through to preserve their slender majority in the House of Representatives at the behest of ... Donald Trump.

Hey, if you can’t win over voters with your policies, you’re going to have to go with these sorts of shenanigans, designed to dilute or entirely suppress the votes of people who tend to vote for Democrats, because we can’t have that.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Now, will the Supremes let it stand? nt

[B.See]

2. You mean considering the conservatives

haven't an OUNCE of integrity between them?

[walkingman]

3. SCOTUS does not think there is racism in the US anymore - they must live in a bubble.

Can't speak for anywhere else, but it is definitely alive and well in Texas.

[B.See]

4. That's because they are ON THE TAKE...

and long have been.

[Jack Valentino]

5. I almost think the new maps might have been better for Democrats than the old ones, since

Republicans based their new maps on the glitchy inflated vote of Latinos for Trump in 2024,
whose approval for Trump has now gone radically in the opposite direction....

We'll see how it plays out. If the court decision is not overturned by the SC,
the theoretical results of all the gerrymanders will actually leave the GOP
with less sure seats than they started with--- just desserts
for this radical mid-decade gerrymandering attempt!

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

6. Texabama.

[Rstrstx]

7. I am so confused - was this standard procedure for a District Court?

This was a 3 judge panel apparently? And the appeal goes directly to SCOTUS and not through the 5th Circuit? Is that normal for a case like this?

[B.See]

8. Don't know if it answers your question, but

I think the actual article has something re this.

[Rstrstx]

9. I see this part:

Since this is a redistricting case, it is a bit weird in terms of how it is handled. Where federal district court cases are usually presided over by a single judge, redistricting cases are heard in the lower court but with a panel of three judges. Any appeal goes directly to the Supreme Court, which is where this will inevitably end up

Still news to me that this is how cases like this are heard, never knew.

[In It to Win It]

10. Yes. Constitutional challenges to redistricting, and various kinds of Voting Rights Act litigation are heard by

3-judge panels in a federal district court.

Those are appealed directly to the Supreme Court.

[Cha]

11. Yeah it's called CHEATING!

TY B.See