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Judge rejects ‘racially gerrymandered’ maps in Texas that gave Republicans extra districts (www.theguardian.com)

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Federal judge instructed state to use older maps, with Republicans likely to appeal decision

New maps that added five Republican districts in Texas hit a legal roadblock on Tuesday, with a federal judge saying the state cannot use the 2025 maps because they are probably “racially gerrymandered”.

The decision is likely to be appealed, given the push for more Republican-friendly congressional maps nationwide and Donald Trump’s full-court press on his party to make them. Some states have followed suit, and some Democratic states have retaliated, pushing to add more blue seats to counteract Republicans.

A panel of three federal judges in Texas said in a decision that the state must use previously approved 2021 maps for next year’s midterms rather than the ones that kickstarted a wave of mid-decade redistricting. The plaintiffs, including the League of United Latin American Citizens, are “likely to prove at trial that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 map”, so the court approved a preliminary injunction to stop the map’s use for next year’s elections.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 12 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Nope, that's the kind of thinking that let MAGA rise and take over.

Dems need to accept that they have to fight fire with fire. They don't have lie, cheat, steal, commit treason, be in the blackmail club, be/support pedophiles, etc., they just have to b play Hard Ball.

That's what MAGAs did during their larval Republican stage. McConnell played Hard Ball better than anyone, while Dems just forfeited the game entirely. It's time for them to get back on the game, and ruthlessly play Hard Ball by every obscure and arcane rule.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The problem is when we have a party deciding the representation instead of the actual people in that land, who's to say the party won't do what parties have been doing since the country began, which is switch stances and adopt new values.

We don't want states deciding what the people want, we want people deciding what the states want.

We can fight the MAGA mind virus without discarding the constitution. When we say "the left and democrats need to fight dirtier" we don't mean doing the same thing that MAGA does, we mean we need to stop being civil and giving the GOP the chance to compromise on a policy level.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

instead of the actual people in that land

That doesn't happen either way.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

That's how you get more apathy and less people voting. Yes democrats have a problem with playing nice and not getting anything passed but they also have a larger identity problem of what they stand for and why people should vote for them, this is way more the reason Kamala lost then soft democrats as shown by the lack of turnout. If democrats don't stand for democracy, what are they standing for?

Also the more prevalent this becomes the more they will use it against there left flank as well. The less there is a threat of a third party emerging due to gerrymandering, the more centrist the democrats can go and the more they can ignore the left.