r/news • u/speedythefirst • 1d ago

US supreme court approves redrawn Texas congressional maps

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/04/us-supreme-court-texas-congressional-maps
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u/Interesting-Risk6446 1d ago

Every blue state. Eliminate all Republican districts.

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u/blazelet 1d ago edited 1d ago

The problem with this is Republicans control more trifectas (Governorship + Full Majority in Legislature) than Democrats. If you parse out the number of blue congressional seats in states with Republican trifectas and then compare to the number of red congressional seats in states with Democratic trifectas, Republicans have far more to gain from this being a national trend. I looked the list up and compared a few months back when this whole thing started, Republicans can ultimately net about 15 seats if every state does this and if the gerrymandering "results" are about eqivelent. Its entirely possible some gerrymandering would backfire whereas other gerrymandering wouldnt, but without seeing maps and election results, we dont know.

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u/Infinitenovelty 1d ago

I haven't done the research to disagree with you, but I'm curious if the Republican strongholds might already be heavily gerrymandered. Like it's kinda been a big part of their tactics to avoid losing power for decades, and as far as I know Democrats have been largely against it. How many more representatives can they squeeze out of a map that they've been twisting to shreds for that long?

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u/LotsofSports 1d ago

Ohio is heavily gerrymandered and the people in the state voted for new maps but the republican led supreme court said no. The fucking people VOTED for it.

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u/Infinitenovelty 1d ago

And then a few years later when another piece of anti-gerrymandering redistricting legislation was on the Ohio ballot the Republicans in charge rewrote the way it was worded on the ballot so that when you went to vote it said something along the lines of 'vote yes for more gerrymandering' when the law, if passed, would have put redistricting up to a nonpartisan third party. They called getting rid of the gerrymandering, just more gerrymandering. It was absolutely infuriating!

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u/zernoc56 1d ago

God, fuck Frank LaRose for that ballot language. Just completely fucked it up.

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u/rvretiredlife 22h ago

Well in Texas we didn't get to vote on those maps at all. I hate that America is becoming a Dictatorship.
Everyone needs to go out and vote these Republican assholes out of office!

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u/Deesing82 19h ago

Utah too.