Posted on 12/04/2025 7:52:08 PM PST by Navy Patriot
The Supreme Court on Thursday paved the way for Texas to use its redrawn congressional map, a major victory for Republicans who could gain as many as five seats in the 2026 midterm elections.
In an unsigned order, the justices granted Texas' emergency request to block a three-judge federal district court ruling that barred the map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
"Texas is paving the way as we take our country back, district by district, state by state," Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement. "This map reflects the political climate of our state and is a massive win for Texas and every conservative who is tired of watching the left try to upend the political system with bogus lawsuits."
The high court said Texas is likely to win when the case comes back on the merits. In the brief order, the justices said the state satisfied the "traditional criteria for interim relief" and faulted the lower court for "at least two serious errors" in striking down the map.
First, the majority said the three-judge court failed to apply the usual presumption that lawmakers act in "good faith" and instead construed "ambiguous direct and circumstantial evidence against the legislature."
Second, it said the lower court should have drawn a "dispositive or near-dispositive" adverse inference against the challengers because they never produced an alternative map that would have met Texas' stated partisan goals without the racial features they attacked.
The justices also leaned heavily on timing, given that Sunday is the deadline for candidates to file for next year's elections.
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This indicates that their ruling on the other similar case is going to be consistent with this order.
Agree.
The problem is that Virginia Democrats are now planning their own map that increases their Congressional seat lead from 6-5 to 10-1.
“Take THAT, Jasmine!”
Evil never rests.
Any comment from newsom yet?
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District 35 of Texas, “represented” by Greg Casar, consists largely of Austin, but has a narrow corridor along I-35 which reaches down into the northeast and central parts of San Antonio. Austin and San Antonio are 60 miles apart. It absolutely was gerrymandered along ethnic lines to be majority Hispanic (Hispanic is not a race). Thanks to the gerrymandering, the voices of conservatives are completely drowned out. In the last election, many of the races did not even have a Republican candidate. I left those races blank. I know that turning in a ballot with several blanks is dangerous, but on the other hand, it is printed after you vote on a touch screen, so would probably be hard to alter after the fact.
I’m looking forward to being in a district that is less gerrymandered. Funny how the Democrats claim the new map is drawn along racial lines, when the last map was drawn along ethnic lines.
Here in California they have a write in for the State and Local races, so Mrs. Patriot and I would write in Donald J. Trump when there was no Republican or some RINO, to prevent vote theft.
Florida is redistricting too and that will likely result in a gain of 5 seats for Republicans.
There are a lot more Red states that can gerrymander hard like blue states have long done for Democrats. They’ve been doing this to the maximum degree for decades and can’t keep up with all the Republican gains red states can generate through redistricting.
Here in CT the Democrats have come up with a clever new way to improve “democracy”.
They plan to increase their 5-0 advantage to 6 to minus one!
Lol.
The new map UNgerrymanders the previous map.
The Rs have the advantage in opportunities but the Ds will convert all of their lesser in number opportunities while the Rs will play nice and convert less seats.
Therefore this is a Democratic win. Biggly.
It is another step towards making a deer alignment between political ideals and geography. People are living in states that are aligned with their beliefs. Then it’s a matter of how we cut ties with each other. For at least for a few generations SS will be the tie that binds. Even the most devout Free Republican will not give up the sacred monthly check to live in a free state.
“making a deer alignment”
making an alignment
Question: How many years, from birth onward, need one contribute $ 1000.00, then quit, allowing for 8 % per annum compounding (continuous, on average), FOR IT TO EQUAL THE TOTAL amount given to the average SS recipient, from their starting to take SS payments, until his death?
I know this is a long question, but basically it asks: How much would one have to put into a Dell-Trump account from age zero onward, to have it be equal to the TOTAL amount a typical serf-citizen gets from his SS payments, from age 65 till death.
ANSWER: Five (5). Only put 5 annual payments in an account, starting at age zero and ending at age 4. Then just forget about it. Leave it alone. No more contributions.
You would then be able to withdraw, starting at age 65, the amount that the average SS recipient gets, until he or she died in the average amount of time.
Your estimates may vary a little from mine.
Use any savings calculator, or ask an AI chatbot, or figure it out with a pencil.
Interpretation:
y = exp(x) is just one of the hundreds of things that HS graduates should know but don't, as a result of the Communist teachers' union op to dumb-down-and-resentment-up every student.
Compound [y = exp(x)] interest was something Einstein marveled about, him of all persons.
Once people get a taste of super-early-commencement of savings and compounding them in an index fund (QQQ would be nice...check out how it has done in the past 35 years) they will ask the obvious followup question(s):
Why can't we do this same identical thing with our pathetic bogus SS accounts?
Why do we NEVER have a balanced budget?
Why do we have 39 Trillion Dollars of debt?
Why do we have greater than 100 Trillion Dollars of REAL, not fudged, debts looming?
Why do the Communist Rats talk about 'affordability' but in reality, do everything they can think of to block savings, block paying down the debt, block balancing the budgetr, block investing, discourage working with progressive income taxes and giveaways to the unproductive, and thus turn the heat up on inflation?
So whatever state you may live in, the slap-in-the-face reality of the efficacy of early, prudent savings with compound interest will grow and overshadow many other Communist Democrat shellgames, ops, and tricks.
It won't matter which state you live in.
Not the way we have the bogus SS statements now. We never get a total, or pricipal plus accumulated savings amount.
That is why the whole SS system is a cruel joke.
Dell-Trump accounts will be a stealth way to privatize SS. AND it certainly will happen.
Then they had a vote...blah blah blah...
I do not think the Court will rule for their new map.
The logical end of all government favored wealth accumulation accounts is confiscation. Either by inflation, taxes, or taking.
The Progs already resent “mega IRAs” but that resentment will quickly grow to ma and pa sized IRAs.
8% will not happen in a bankrupt country.
Dell Trump accounts are a gimmick.
It probably should be. Let’s get all 50 states to get this done once and for all. Yes many have already. But probably 25-30 still need to.
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