Posted on 11/01/2025 2:31:28 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Six years ago, when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld highly partisan state election maps in North Carolina and Maryland — ruling that federal courts cannot block states from drawing up maps that favor one party over the other — one of the court’s liberal justices issued a warning.
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End the filibuster.
Trim back the welfare system.
Cede Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside (west of Palm Springs) and San Diego Counties of Southern California back to Mexico. Put most Owens Valley and Colorado River water to agricultural use and charge dearly for the rest and use the money to pay on the national debt.
Offer the San Francisco Bay area (except the vineyard region) to the Republic of China. If refused, cede it to Mexico. Charge for Sierra Nevada water to help pay the national debt.
Cede the Democratic southern tip of Texas back to Mexico.
Disenfranchised California voters?
They’re flooding Texas. Some cities are doubledeckering entire highway systems
Newsom drove them out
If the democrats get Texas as blue state it’s over.
Well, so if Newsom is focusing on the presidency much more than on his governorship of California, as in taking care of California, then why would he not drive them over to Texas.
He would want to disenfranchise Californians.
Little money being spent to kill prop 50, at least on TV. Of course the likes of the Bathhouse Berry and pasty face Tom Steyer are all over the airwaves bashing Trump / Pro Prop 50.
So Trump / Republicans pulled in around 39% of the vote last November in Kalifornia. And to show for it there is zero State wide office Representation in Sacramento. And when this passes there will be probably less than five Republican Reps in DC come next years election. It could be 48 Rats Reps, and 4 Republican. In it’s most simple calculation 39% of Republicans would be 20 State Representatives. in DC That is Democrat / Newscum form of Democracy.
It is currently being challenged by Steve Hilton, the judge is laughing it off.
““If left unchecked, gerrymanders like the ones here may irreparably damage our system of government,””
Uh, Genius, they already have. For decades.
“Cede Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside (west of Palm Springs) and San Diego Counties of Southern California back to Mexico”
When Hell Freezes over. It was never theirs to begin with.
BTW, should we “return” Florida to the King of Spain?
Proposition 50 could disenfranchise Republican California voters. Will it survive a legal challenge?
Gerrymandering is a good example of Democrats rigging an election imo, a violation of Section 2 of the 14th Amendment if such is the case imo. That section is a penalty for states where voting integrity has been compromised.
Note the zero tolerance, "hair trigger" wording of that section which federal and state governments, under the boots of the corrupt, constitutionally undefined political parties, are evidently ignoring imo.
But when the right to vote at any election
is denied to any
or in any way abridged,
Section 2: Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election [all emphases added] for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State. [Apportionment of Representatives]
Here is third party opinion that both state and federal governments are wrongly ignoring Section 2 imo.
No serious effort was ever made in Congress to effectuate § 2, and the only judicial attempt was rebuffed.2 , cert. denied, 328 U.S. 870 (1946). —Apportionment Clause
The Section had long been dead. But there are two camps of legal scholars who wish to revive it. The first consists of those who would like to see Section Two enforced to punish states that abridge their citizens’ right to vote, especially in the wake of Shelby County v. Holder. Recently, Joshua Geltzer, the executive director at Georgetown’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection and the former senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council, added himself to this camp. The second camp is using Section Two, which distinguishes on the basis of gender, as evidence that Section One’s Equal Protection Clause does not prohibit gender-based discrimination. Jonathan Mitchell spearheads this movement. —The Worrisome Ghost of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Second Section
Note Thomas Jefferson's advice against ignoring parts of the Constitution.
"The general rule [is] that an instrument is to be so construed as to reconcile and give meaning and effect to all its parts.
We cede nothing. Drive the enemy off our land.
I find it mind-bobbling that the only thing the Dims/Socialists/Commies have in their purse is just TDS.
And return the Northeast to England? And maybe the LOA purchase to France? The counties in the above article will never CEDE their authority, especially not Orange or Riverside counties.
Yes it should pass the scrutiny of the courts for a number of reasons. It also means red states should be able to do what they want.
CA will be losing 3 to 5 seats, NY will lose 3 seats, RI -1, Illinois -2, OR -1 and those seats will go to TX, FL, ID, TN, NC and GA. Perfect.
The pro Prop 50 ads are mostly about how bad President Trump is...Those ads work...I am not happy about that...But, that is the reality...
About Tom Steyer...I find that guy very annoying...I do not know if he knows that many people find him irritating...
Democrats don’t believe in representative government.
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