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The Governor of California should just say, "Thanks to today's Supreme Court decision, we intend to redistrict California to make it mathematically impossible f
by Analemma_ 7y ago
The Governor of California should just say, "Thanks to today's Supreme Court decision, we intend to redistrict California to make it mathematically impossible for Republicans to win a single House seat". I bet you the Senate would agree to a federal anti-gerrymandering provision right quick after that.
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- gumby 7y agoCalifornia districting is done by a nonpartisan commission outside the control of politicians and elections (except president/Vice President of USA) do not have parties in them (e.g. two republicans could be the two candidates for a seat).
- jimbob45 7y agoNot sure why you're getting downvoted. There's certainly corruption to be witnessed on both sides of the aisle.
- shemnon42 7y agoAnd then it would be the legislative branch mandating anti-gerrymandering, which according to today's ruling is the branch that should be doing it. So Gov Newsom totally should do it.
- CameronNemo 7y agoSo what? The House loses like 9 Republicans in that case. Without flipping the Senate, it is meaningless.
- nwallin 7y agoI agree with you, however that's unfortunately not possible. The California Constitution defines the redistricting process in terms of the California Citizens Redistricting Commission. We would need a ballot initiative to overturn it. I'm not aware of any initiatives to add such a provision to the ballot in 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Citizens_Redistricting_Commission https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Citizens_Redistrict...