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BREAKING: Federal court blocks Texas from using new congressional gerrymander in 2026 midterms (www.cleburnetimesreview.com)
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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wasn't California's gerrymandering explicitly conditional on Texas doing it?

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The language in the original legislative proposal (Assembly Constitutional Amendment 8) specified that California's new map would become operative if Texas, Florida, or another state adopted a new, non-federally-mandated congressional district map between August 1, 2025, and January 1, 2031.

Ah, yes, it is, and not just Texas. So it won't happen if nobody else does it.

EDIT: This was old info. That part was removed. So it still stands.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They really removed that part? Why

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

I'm not sure, but I'm not complaining. It has an expiration date. Fascists don't fight fair and neither should we.