The Supreme Court is allowing California to use its new congressional map for this year’s midterm election, clearing the way for the state’s gerrymandered districts as Democrats and Republicans continue their fight for control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
The state’s voters approved the redistricting plan last year as a Democratic counterresponse to Texas’ new GOP-friendly map, which President Trump pushed for to help Republicans hold on to their narrow majority in the House.
And in an unsigned order released Wednesday, the high court’s majority denied an emergency request by the California’s Republican Party to block the redistricting plan. The state’s GOP argued that the map violated the U.S. Constitution because its creation was mainly driven by race, not partisan politics. A lower federal court rejected that claim.
Trump would have won a straight up popular vote for this term.
Would he have? Because you forget the votes that don’t get cast don’t show up in the data either. Look up how many voting locations were shut down in republican held states, or how many voter roll ‘purges’ were done, or how polls are closed early, or how not same day voting was prevented or thrown out, how polling locations are only open during work hours, I’m not making shit up, they reduce the number of people least likely to vote republican by any means necessary and half of what is legal and being done now by Republicans was made illegal by the civil rights act for most of my lifetime. And that law died with a whimper under Obama of all presidents, the conservative supreme court justified that with ‘‘racism must be over now, so we can get rid of laws ment to combat racism’’