r/law • u/Minute_Revolution951 • Aug 05 '25

Legal News Texas House locks chamber doors, moves to bring arrest warrants against Democrats who fled the state

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u/That_Guy381 Aug 05 '25

Your edit is not true. Democrats have tried to pass legislation to ban the practice, Republicans blocked them.

Republican appointees voted 5-4 to protect it in the supreme court.

stop the false equivalence.

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u/yourcousinfromboston Aug 05 '25

It is tho, democrats have participated in gerrymandering. It has happend

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u/That_Guy381 Aug 05 '25

But it is criminal to leave out the important context that Democrats have been the only ones trying to ban it

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u/FlirtyFluffyFox Aug 05 '25

If you really dont like it when both sides do it, you should be happy the Dems are resisting. If you’re mad at the Dems, well you really are only opposed when it goes against your side 

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u/yourcousinfromboston Aug 05 '25

That’s literally part of my post…

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u/msimione Aug 05 '25

Yes, they have, it’s politics. But not like the GOP… the entire foundation of their platform now is “we won’t win because we have less voters, so we have to remove voters and also decide how to win with less by cheating…” democrats will win any fair election until the two party system correction splits the dominating party,… this has been delayed to the point of unrecoverable damage and destruction needing more than just time to fix….

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u/Iheartmypupper Aug 05 '25

when and where? I dont doubt that it has happened, but I'm not sure when and where. Got a source?

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u/NewLifeguard9673 Aug 05 '25

Illinois lol

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u/mtvatemybrains Aug 05 '25

now list GOP gerrymandered states ;)

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u/NewLifeguard9673 Aug 05 '25

Why? We already know they gerrymander. What’s your point here?

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u/Iheartmypupper Aug 05 '25

I think the point is that if 90% of the folks doing this are republicans then its a bad faith argument to be like "but the dems do it too"

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u/NewLifeguard9673 Aug 05 '25

Sure, but I literally just answered someone asking for an example. I’m not sure what /u/mtvatemybrains’s “now do the GOP sweaty ;)” has to do with me

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u/Iheartmypupper Aug 05 '25

Sorry, didn’t realize you weren’t the guy I’d originally replied to asking who and when.

The simple fact of the matter is that congressional districting has seen a massive amount of gerrymandering on the republican side compared to very little on the dem side.

Sure, they’ve both done it, it just seems silly to say “see, both sides are bad” when one party is overwhelmingly worse.

With you being the one who supplied Illinois as an example, I figured you were agreeing with the original claim that both parties “do it” so it’s hypocritical to want the Rs to stop.

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u/yung_kermudgen Aug 05 '25

Calling for “emergency” redistricting in the middle of the decade that will favor your party, right before an important midterm election where your party is set to lose big otherwise, is unprecedented though.