Posted on 08/23/2025 4:12:28 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
It all amounts to the opening salvo in what is likely to become a national showdown to grasp power through gerrymandering.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Democrats can’t win through overwhelming popularity — they aren’t popular.
Democrats can’t win through stuffing ballot boxes — that seems like it’s going to get harder to accomplish.
Democrats have to gerrymander key states so that outcomes are a sure thing — it’s all they have left.
It’s nice how politico fails to mention that CA is disregarding its own laws, using Stuff’n Gut strategy, to avoid 30-day public comment period in order to get Newscum’s imitative on the ballot this year.
What if the thread title removed the word “redistricting”?
More like the country is trending now.
Sorry, Gut’n Stuff strat
The democRATs have been doing this for years. Why is this suddenly a Republican issue?
"California Democrats used a common legislative tactic called “gut and amend” to rush legislation for a special election on new election maps. Republicans say that violates the state constitution."
https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/08/newsom-redistricting-republican-lawsuit/
The Democratic Party claims to be the descendant of the Democratic-Republican Party of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Elbridge Gerry, for whom gerrymandering is named, was Madison's Vice President. So it is cultural appropriation for Republicans to assume the right to gerrymander.
Congress should not seat California politicians since they won’t even follow California law much less federal law
(sanctuary sedition)
What the Alt Left does not realize is Dems have all ready done this in the Blue States over the last 2 decades.. If Red states do this too the Dems don’t have very many seats to gain but many to lose
Ok, so I missed that. Granted I find it hard to hard some of Politico’s pieces and I only skimmed it. That said, nice to see a mention of gut’n stuff.
I was not correcting you. I was just augmenting.
-PJ
I wondered about that. Thanks for that input.
They have largely already done that gerrymandering. That is why they’re whining about Republicans doing it, so loudly.
The plaintiffs argue that the legislative process used to advance the map violates constitutional requirements, specifically a 30-day waiting period between the introduction of legislation and a vote on it.
They contend that bypassing the independent citizens redistricting commission—established by voters in 2010 to remove partisan influence from mapmaking—undermines the state’s constitutional framework and democratic principles.
The lawsuit does not challenge the “gut and amend” legislative tactic in principle but asks the court to enforce constitutional constraints meant to protect public rights, including transparency and participation in the lawmaking process.
Critics, including Republican lawmakers, describe the move as a power grab that sets a dangerous precedent.
However, the Newsom administration has dismissed the legal challenge as unserious, asserting confidence in the process.
Whether the map ultimately violates the California Constitution will be determined by the courts. The state constitution emphasizes direct democracy and limits on legislative power, reflecting a system where voters have historically taken an active role in governance through initiatives and commissions. While the constitution allows for amendments and legislative action, procedural compliance remains a key legal benchmark.
The outcome of the lawsuit will hinge on judicial interpretation of these constitutional provisions.
The question I have, is there still a court in Ca. that will rule with the Republicans, or is the entire judicial apparatus going to support whatever the Democrats want?
When it comes to results Democrats fail consistenly.
Republicans have learned how to win.
What Texas is doing is gerrymandering. Virtually all the deep blue states are gerrymandered to the Dems advantage. What Texas is doing is simply copying what the Dems have done for many years. Texas went on offense. The Dems have always been on offense.
The real hell of it is the Dems will lose this battle. Their states are far more gerrymandered than Republican states. If all states go to a gerrymander war the Dems will lose their ass.
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