DavriellelounaBarack Obama praises Texas Democrats as state legislature moves to end special session without passing new electoral maps
Blue states should go ahead with plans to redistrict regardless of what happens. Play for the political landscape you have, not the political landscape you want. The way maps are already gerrymandered nets Republicans 16 seats in the House.
UnderpantsWeevilBlue States simply won’t do this, because they are not part of a coherent national political project.
They’ll bluff and then hope Republicans fold.
JesusI bet CA goes through.
They’re proposing some conditional logic in their legislation. If others do ____, then CA does ____.
If the other states do nothing, then CA does nothing.
They’re proposing some conditional logic in their legislation. If others do ____, then CA does ____.
Ah, yes. They’re modeling it after the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, another famously effective piece of collaborative interstate legislation.
If the other states do nothing, then CA does nothing.
States have been gerrymandering themselves since the 17th century. Texas already pulled this out-of-cycle redistricting shit as recently as 2003, ffs. Its already happened. All the CA Dems are managing in this is to make clear that they’re bluffing.
One of those things triggers after a bunch of states fight long hard battles to update their constitutions. The other one triggers as soon as a single opponent gerrymanders.
It’s also worth noting that CA has only been free of gerrymanders for a little over a decade. The’ve gerrymandered before and they can do it again.
The other one triggers as soon as a single opponent gerrymanders.
Again, the gerrymandering happened two decades ago. This is mopping up.
There’s nothing about the interstate compact that is ineffective, the legislation has been passed in many places, rather the triggers are famously not met and the conservative party is famously opposed.