Texas moving forward with racist gerrymandering.

[HomerJS]

If you think I'm making up this title Republicans have a history of doing this. They were found guilty in court of this very thing in North Carolina and forced to reverse the map.

Texas Senate approves congressional map that increases white majority districts (msn.com)

 

[SmCaudata]

I'd love to see districts eliminated. Have instant runoff voting for each party to get priority list and then we assign in that order based on popular vote ratio.

Republicans would naturally cater to republican areas and democrats would cater to everyone like they do currently. It's absurd that democrats always take in more of the total vote share but control almost nothing.

 

[Sunburn74]

I think it remains to be seen whether this will all pan out as the repubs plan. Might work. Might blow up in their faces. I hope the latter.

 

[JTsyo]

If it's proven to be racist, then it's unconstitutional.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gill_v._Whitford

 

[thraashman]

If it's proven to be racist, then it's unconstitutional.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gill_v._Whitford

Except the current SCOTUS has said that just because something has a proven disparate negative effect on certain races, doesn't make it illegal. You have to prove it was done for racist reasons. So all the sieg heiling right has to do is be careful about their wording on reasoning, and they can be wholly racist.

 

[BoomerD]

Come on y 'all...we can't be having "them people" actually have a voice...

 

[HomerJS]

If it's proven to be racist, then it's unconstitutional.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gill_v._Whitford

Given the Republican history of this very thing why should we doubt it?