The California Supreme Court will not prevent Democrats from moving forward Thursday with a plan to redraw congressional districts.
Republicans in the Golden State had asked the state’s high court to step in and temporarily block the redistricting efforts, arguing that Democrats — who are racing to put the plan on the ballot later this year — had skirted a rule requiring state lawmakers to wait at least 30 days before passing newly introduced legislation.
But in a ruling late Wednesday, the court declined to act, writing that the Republican state lawmakers who filed the suit had “failed to meet their burden of establishing a basis for relief at this time.”
Actually, the supreme courts of Texas and California are separate and distinct from each other.
Texas courts failing to stop partisan gerrymandering aimed at political parties choosing their voters rather than the other way around wouldn’t make it hypocritical for those in California to protect the concept of “one person, one vote”.
If anyone is being hypocritical here, it’s Mike Johnson (for being against California doing it but for Texas doing it) and zero sum Democrats (for being against Texas doing it but not against California doing it) with no regard for the damage to representative democracy and any third party or independent candidates trying to take on the Neoliberal behemoth that is the California DNC from the left.
Im one of the zero sum democrats. Once due process was out the window we are now essentially in a civil war that has not went to physical violence (mostly, ie ice) and these things are the only things that might stop that by keeping some semblance of overall fairness in play.