Natalia (She/They)

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As the GOP is likely to squeak by winning the House, your friendly reminder that 5-7 of the GOP seats have been handed to them by the McConnell Court. That's the number of seats the GOP gains from using districting schemes held illegal by the courts overseeing them, but were used nonetheless because the decisions came too close to the election to be replaced by legal maps, according to a generous-to-illegal-districting-manipulation doctrine from the McConnell Court. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/08/us/elections/gerrymandering-maps-elections-republicans.html
Maps in Four States Were Ruled Illegal Gerrymanders. They’re Being Used Anyway.

A Supreme Court shift, frowning on changes close to elections, gives House Republicans a big advantage in November.

The New York Times