Democrats Could Lose Seats In Congress After Biden DOJ Gambled On A Local Commissioner Seat

The Federalist ^ | June 13, 2024 | Brianna Lyman

[E. Pluribus Unum]

President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) sued a small Texas county for drawing its district map in a way that eradicated a sole Democrat-held county seat, arguing the map violates the Voting Rights Act (VRA). But the DOJ’s decision to sue the county could backfire and potentially flip Democrat-held congressional seats after the county called its bluff and went to court over so-called “coalition districts.” 

Galveston County’s Precinct 3 is held by Democrat Stephen Holmes and has long been a Democrat stronghold. Until recently, the county lines had been drawn in such a way that they created a “coalition district,” according to Paul Ready, general counsel for Galveston County. A “coalition district” is a district in which no minority group could be a majority, but multiple minority groups are then combined to form a majority-minority district to increase the chances of electing a candidate preferred by the minority groups — often a Democrat, Ready explained to The Federalist.

Galveston County’s brief to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, obtained by The Federalist, alleges that coalition districts “present political, not racial, alliances.”

Democrats contend coalition districts are compliant with the VRA and have used these types of districts to amass political control by lumping together multiple minority groups to form a single majority-minority district, Ready explained. That’s the position the Biden DOJ is taking now.

Galveston County argues the VRA is only applicable if there is a sufficiently large enough single racial minority group to create a district where that racial group is in the majority — rather than patching together multiple minority groups that add up to a majority. If Galveston County prevails, its lawyers predict at least a dozen congressional seats that are Democrat strongholds could eventually be redrawn in a way that weakens Democrat power in Washington.

[Steely Tom]

Obviously Democracy Is Under Attack.

[ComputerGuy]

It’s all gerrymandering, whether it’s for or against whites. The majority, if white, nearly always has to throw the minorities a bone or two. The reverse isn’t true.

[DesertRhino]

“Galveston County argues the VRA is only applicable if there is a sufficiently large enough single racial minority group to create a district where that racial group is in the majority “

Hell, even THAT standard is racist and a rigged outcome.

[nitzy]

It’s 2024. We have complex mapping systems that could re-draw Congressional districts through an unbiased algorithm that would remove all politics.

It shouldn’t be a politics problem. It should be a math problem.

Of course we can’t do this because of the unconstitutional and racist VRA which enshrines skin color based laws at a systemic level.