The GOP’s power grab has been given steroids today.
OkayButFoRealz on
>The GOP leaders had indicated the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in a redistricting case would not alter their plans for the 2026 midterm elections. But after justices handed down a decision in their favor Wednesday, they are now looking at contingency plans to cancel or delay the party primary election until a new map can be drawn and used this year.
so when repubs redraw maps, and courts knock the changes back, it’s “too late to change”, and the illegal map goes through. but if it’s not the GOP, then the performance they have in place of true democracy gets cancelled? cool, makes sense. totally normal. please don’t rise up in rebellion, your voice is definitely being heard 🙄
Succubus-Love on
Why don’t we do this. Everyone votes, if the results show 50% R voters, & 50% D voters, then you just split the seats 50/50.
Your state have 10 representatives, easy, 5D, 5R.
There only a 45/45/10? Then fine, have 18D, 18R, 2Independent or whatever. Or 9, 9, 1, or however else you make the math fit. You can do more math stuff if there is a carry over or it’s not even. I’m not even a math person & I can figure this out, so how come law makers with degrees, in our government, can’t just do this instead of the gerrymandering geography stuff, where they can basically take a state that votes 60% in one direction, but in the house there are 7 out of 10 representing voters, in the other direction, while 3 out of 10 represent that 60% majority, which is not a proper reflection of that majority, at all. Seriously? Why aren’t we allowed to re-evaluate when there’s an obvious problem? Why is it so hard to do something new? Why do people have to suffer, hurt, & die before the rest of society will listen, it’s bullshit!
ZonghZonghZongh on
SCOTUS timed this ruling drop early enough that some states might scramble to maximally gerrymander, and/or delay primary elections like LA in order to rush through a redistricting. My question is are the blue states who haven’t had primaries yet, and have yet to step into the mid-cycle gerrymandering war going to step up or standby?
I also wonder how many of these Southern states might end up with a dummymander (like Florida today) in their pursuit to eliminate all Section 2 districts?
Alwaystired254 on
Sounds like the right just positioned themselves to win the midterms
Ok_Bandicoot_814 on
This locks down the solid South. It guarantees the Northeast for the Dems for all the good that’s done for us. I also think this more or less guarantees Republicans’ control of the House for at least two or three Cycles. I also think long-term this actually helps us because it sets up a future generation, either Millennial or Gen Z. They will probably want to crack down on gerrymandering and political machines.
pgm_01 on
Republicans just tripping over themselves to disenfranchise black Americans.
opinionsareus on
Blue states will respond appropriately. We are officially a divided nation. Lincoln should have publicly executed all senior Confederate generals, politicians and plantation owners who supported the Confederacy in addition to occupying the South for 75 years and severely punishing any person who openly discriminated against a black person
I will not visit any red state, unless it’s a dire emergency. Blue states should cancel all government business with red states. Starve these a-holes economically.
OldFaithlessness1335 on
Ehhh these things have a way of being unpredictable. Call me naive, call me dumb, but id like to see how this goes. Like what do you think the response would be trying to shove through a bunch of gerrymandering last minute?
Is the gop evil…. yes
Edit 1:
They are also incredibly stupid and frankly often get way ahead of there skis.
Like think about it for a second. There was an attempted assassination like 3 days ago. And now what coming rights are all over the front page? Gerrymandering back in the headlines…
I dunno this ruling could be like nass injecting into the electorate durring the primaries. Then theres gonna a huge energy shock hitting in the summer. Vacations will get cut. Food will be more expensive. Layoffs will probably be had. Like just wait and see what happens.
Edit 2:
Like there only 63.9% of the voting eligible populat8on participated in 24. This a unique and rare confluence of events. War, energy shock, voting right assaults, economic stgantion, looming health care crisis…..
we have no idea what is going to happen. Each one of those are very real and very easy to trace back to concrete action taken by this admin. Those are real on the geound harms directly tied to decisions this admin and wider republican party has taken…..
Each one of those points is a motivator. Will it be enough of a motivation to activate voter I dunno. But im hopeful…. ita weird.
Edit 3:
I mean looking at the landscape, if your anything left of center this is the year to run. Be local and be aggressive. Look to make thing better at home Dont stand for the corruption. Ect.
Pretty simple and easy message to run on tbh.
LADataJunkie on
Yup. I think this is going to be the norm. Purple states with Republican congressmen will be next. It’s too bad Democrats didn’t vote in 2016.
tomgratz on
Canceling elections is a Nazi move. Disgusting !
ANTILAMER13 on
If you see something about minority voters and the Supreme Court today, here is an explanation
SCOTUS just gutted the VRA and allowed for reverse discrimination to be taken seriously as part of a legal argument in the highest court of our nation.
6-3 Callais v. Landry
A group of non-Black voters challenged this map as an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander”
a Louisiana congressional map had been redrawn to include a second Black-majority district to comply with the VRA
SCOTUS: race was too predominant in the maps creation, effectively siding with the challenge.
DISSENT: The ruling strengthens the argument that creating minority-opportunity districts to comply with the VRA is a form of illegal “reverse discrimination”.
Curious-Emu3894 on
American democracy is under attack by religious fanatics.
SirTroah on
Yall don’t get it. She had a funny laugh
usernamewhatever77 on
Roberts has been working on dismantling the civil rights act since he was a baby republican.
vintimus on
So fucking disgusting
SuspiciousYard2484 on
Welcome to one party rule (real fascism) for the next 20 or more years. It’s over.
mantis_tobaggan-md on
The Supreme Court has lost all credibility. They will never come back from the parade of atrocious rulings they’ve made in the past 5 years.
thebackseatdiplomat on
I’ve been saying for the past 2 years. They won. There is zero chance of Dems getting power. It is a coup on our government in all 3 branches who are colluding together.
They have a fucking playbook they are following and they know exactly every step of the process. This is only one more piece.
They are going to force themselves into power for the next 20 years and the only chance we have is the military to somehow still be pro democracy or there’s going to be a civil war and unfortunately. The good guys can’t win against ICE and potential military who is already brainwashed.
Seraphynas on
Sadly, as expected.
After the 2024 election, thanks to their ability to implement Project 2025, I said that we would never see another free and fair election in my lifetime.
Here we are.
kmoonster on
Then they … why?
They were not required to hold primaries in the first place, why this? Why now?
anonareyouokay on
This straight up sucks, but it can backfire a bunch. They are diluting their solid red districts, turning them pick and lavender. This is coming at a time where Republicans are losing a lot of districts that Trump won. It turns out that having tax breaks for billionaires to buy children to have sex with as you main issue is very unpopular among most voters. Please show up and vote.
BubbleMushroom on
So it’s treason, then.
IrrigatedPancake on
This court needs to expand or some seats need to be vacated.
Lourdeath on
So how do they justify being Christian if it’s that easy for them to lie this easily
SnizzyYT on
Legit question. Will this effect the midterm elections? I keep seeing that it won’t be in place until 2028.
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The GOP’s power grab has been given steroids today.
>The GOP leaders had indicated the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in a redistricting case would not alter their plans for the 2026 midterm elections. But after justices handed down a decision in their favor Wednesday, they are now looking at contingency plans to cancel or delay the party primary election until a new map can be drawn and used this year.
[Other Republicans](https://rollcall.com/2026/04/29/gop-lawmakers-call-for-redistricting-after-supreme-court-ruling/) are calling for map redraws with this ruling. Could they also call for their **elections to be cancelled** if the precedent is set here?
so when repubs redraw maps, and courts knock the changes back, it’s “too late to change”, and the illegal map goes through. but if it’s not the GOP, then the performance they have in place of true democracy gets cancelled? cool, makes sense. totally normal. please don’t rise up in rebellion, your voice is definitely being heard 🙄
Why don’t we do this. Everyone votes, if the results show 50% R voters, & 50% D voters, then you just split the seats 50/50.
Your state have 10 representatives, easy, 5D, 5R.
There only a 45/45/10? Then fine, have 18D, 18R, 2Independent or whatever. Or 9, 9, 1, or however else you make the math fit. You can do more math stuff if there is a carry over or it’s not even. I’m not even a math person & I can figure this out, so how come law makers with degrees, in our government, can’t just do this instead of the gerrymandering geography stuff, where they can basically take a state that votes 60% in one direction, but in the house there are 7 out of 10 representing voters, in the other direction, while 3 out of 10 represent that 60% majority, which is not a proper reflection of that majority, at all. Seriously? Why aren’t we allowed to re-evaluate when there’s an obvious problem? Why is it so hard to do something new? Why do people have to suffer, hurt, & die before the rest of society will listen, it’s bullshit!
SCOTUS timed this ruling drop early enough that some states might scramble to maximally gerrymander, and/or delay primary elections like LA in order to rush through a redistricting. My question is are the blue states who haven’t had primaries yet, and have yet to step into the mid-cycle gerrymandering war going to step up or standby?
I also wonder how many of these Southern states might end up with a dummymander (like Florida today) in their pursuit to eliminate all Section 2 districts?
Sounds like the right just positioned themselves to win the midterms
This locks down the solid South. It guarantees the Northeast for the Dems for all the good that’s done for us. I also think this more or less guarantees Republicans’ control of the House for at least two or three Cycles. I also think long-term this actually helps us because it sets up a future generation, either Millennial or Gen Z. They will probably want to crack down on gerrymandering and political machines.
Republicans just tripping over themselves to disenfranchise black Americans.
Blue states will respond appropriately. We are officially a divided nation. Lincoln should have publicly executed all senior Confederate generals, politicians and plantation owners who supported the Confederacy in addition to occupying the South for 75 years and severely punishing any person who openly discriminated against a black person
I will not visit any red state, unless it’s a dire emergency. Blue states should cancel all government business with red states. Starve these a-holes economically.
Ehhh these things have a way of being unpredictable. Call me naive, call me dumb, but id like to see how this goes. Like what do you think the response would be trying to shove through a bunch of gerrymandering last minute?
Is the gop evil…. yes
Edit 1:
They are also incredibly stupid and frankly often get way ahead of there skis.
Like think about it for a second. There was an attempted assassination like 3 days ago. And now what coming rights are all over the front page? Gerrymandering back in the headlines…
I dunno this ruling could be like nass injecting into the electorate durring the primaries. Then theres gonna a huge energy shock hitting in the summer. Vacations will get cut. Food will be more expensive. Layoffs will probably be had. Like just wait and see what happens.
Edit 2:
Like there only 63.9% of the voting eligible populat8on participated in 24. This a unique and rare confluence of events. War, energy shock, voting right assaults, economic stgantion, looming health care crisis…..
we have no idea what is going to happen. Each one of those are very real and very easy to trace back to concrete action taken by this admin. Those are real on the geound harms directly tied to decisions this admin and wider republican party has taken…..
Each one of those points is a motivator. Will it be enough of a motivation to activate voter I dunno. But im hopeful…. ita weird.
Edit 3:
I mean looking at the landscape, if your anything left of center this is the year to run. Be local and be aggressive. Look to make thing better at home Dont stand for the corruption. Ect.
Pretty simple and easy message to run on tbh.
Yup. I think this is going to be the norm. Purple states with Republican congressmen will be next. It’s too bad Democrats didn’t vote in 2016.
Canceling elections is a Nazi move. Disgusting !
If you see something about minority voters and the Supreme Court today, here is an explanation
SCOTUS just gutted the VRA and allowed for reverse discrimination to be taken seriously as part of a legal argument in the highest court of our nation.
6-3 Callais v. Landry
A group of non-Black voters challenged this map as an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander”
a Louisiana congressional map had been redrawn to include a second Black-majority district to comply with the VRA
SCOTUS: race was too predominant in the maps creation, effectively siding with the challenge.
DISSENT: The ruling strengthens the argument that creating minority-opportunity districts to comply with the VRA is a form of illegal “reverse discrimination”.
American democracy is under attack by religious fanatics.
Yall don’t get it. She had a funny laugh
Roberts has been working on dismantling the civil rights act since he was a baby republican.
So fucking disgusting
Welcome to one party rule (real fascism) for the next 20 or more years. It’s over.
The Supreme Court has lost all credibility. They will never come back from the parade of atrocious rulings they’ve made in the past 5 years.
I’ve been saying for the past 2 years. They won. There is zero chance of Dems getting power. It is a coup on our government in all 3 branches who are colluding together.
They have a fucking playbook they are following and they know exactly every step of the process. This is only one more piece.
They are going to force themselves into power for the next 20 years and the only chance we have is the military to somehow still be pro democracy or there’s going to be a civil war and unfortunately. The good guys can’t win against ICE and potential military who is already brainwashed.
Sadly, as expected.
After the 2024 election, thanks to their ability to implement Project 2025, I said that we would never see another free and fair election in my lifetime.
Here we are.
Then they … why?
They were not required to hold primaries in the first place, why this? Why now?
This straight up sucks, but it can backfire a bunch. They are diluting their solid red districts, turning them pick and lavender. This is coming at a time where Republicans are losing a lot of districts that Trump won. It turns out that having tax breaks for billionaires to buy children to have sex with as you main issue is very unpopular among most voters. Please show up and vote.
So it’s treason, then.
This court needs to expand or some seats need to be vacated.
So how do they justify being Christian if it’s that easy for them to lie this easily
Legit question. Will this effect the midterm elections? I keep seeing that it won’t be in place until 2028.
All Republicans are fascist terrorists.