#gerrymanders — Public Fediverse posts

I am struggling not to give in to despair after the US and VA #SCOTUS rulings and TN and AL #gerrymanders and hanging by a thread.

Serious question: What is an individual supposed to do here? Especially from outside states where it's happening? If you have a realistic, constructive suggestion, I'd love to hear it. (Keep in mind I vote, stay informed, protest, call my electeds, and donate money / time to the utmost of my ability. And that's clearly not stopping anything.) #americanfascism

I am SCREAMING with laughter over here.

"Texas’s mid-decade redistricting effort was likely an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey V. Brown wrote Tuesday on behalf himself and U.S. District Judge David Guaderrama."

#USPolitics #VotingRights #Texas #Redistricting #Gerrymanders
https://www.lawdork.com/p/court-blocks-texass-mid-decade-redistricting

#SCOTUS plans to eviscerate voting rights in upcoming cases, arguing that restricting #gerrymanders that weaken minority voters' representation violates the equal protection clause https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/voting-rights-act-supreme-court-2/

#SCOTUS majority is inclined to find the guardrails against race based #gerrymanders in the Voting Rights Act violate the US Constitution https://www.vox.com/scotus/422274/supreme-court-gerrymandering-louisiana-callais-voting-rights-act

Ohio's @GOP leges love #Gerrymanders -- cherrypick voters & never have 2 hold town halls.
When districts r spread cross-St there is just NO central location 4 voters 2 nail 'em.
I propose gerrymandering the Statehouse: make Sen/Rep chambers public toilets (officially).🖕🏻 😠

Ohio's @GOP leges love #Gerrymanders -- cherrypick voters & never have 2 hold town halls.
When districts r spread cross-St there's just NO central location 4 voter 2 nail 'em.
I propose gerrymandering the Statehouse: make Sen/Rep chambers public toilets (officially).🖕🏻 😠

Two men recognized and exploited the anti-democratic loopholes within America’s rickety democracy
-- in order to deliver Republicans victories that they could never win at the ballot box.

Now their willfully minoritarian creations threaten the very essence of a representative democracy:

if Donald #Trump, rightwing courts, #gerrymandered state legislatures and an extreme Republican #caucus in the US House of Representatives create constitutional #chaos over the certification of this presidential election, 👉two men cleared the path.

The single-minded determination of #Leonard #Leo built a conservative supermajority on the US #supreme #court and ♦️stacked lower and state courts with Republican #ideologues that have pushed the nation to the right via the least accountable branch of government.

#Chris #Jankowski masterminded the partisan #gerrymanders that ♦️tilted state legislatures and congressional delegations across the south and the purple midwest toward extreme Republicans,
♦️ended Barack Obama’s second term before it started, and ♦️rendered elections in Wisconsinand North Carolina all but meaningless over the last decade and a half.

Leo and Jankowski understood, separately, that the courts and state legislatures were undervalued and often undefended targets for a deliberate strategy aimed at capturing important levers of power that sometimes float under the radar.

They could be Moneyball-ed, to borrow the term Michael Lewis used in his book about how the Oakland A’s made an end-run around large-market teams by understanding value that their opponents overlooked.

What Leo and Jankowski built separately would soon reinforce the other’s creation (with, of course, crucial assists from chief justice #John #Roberts), tightening the knots around meaningful elections, pushing policy to the extreme right and 💥making it nearly impossible for voters to do anything about it

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/04/electoral-college-map-gerrymandering?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

It’s this whole thing that’s scary going on in this country, that if you can’t defeat people’s votes then you do it in some other way.
#Protasiewicz won #Wisconsin’s supreme court election in April, giving liberals a 4-3 majority on the court, their first in 15 years. But Republicans began to float #impeaching Protasiewicz before the results were even known.
The party has already locked down control of the legislature, using aggressive #gerrymanders to protect itself from election defeats.
It has also deflated the powers of the Democratic governor, Tony Evers, undercutting his #authority to appoint people to executive branch positions. 
https://boltsmag.org/wisconsin-impeachment-protasiewicz/

This is the outcome of #gerrymanders and even speaks to a need for a #NationalPopularVote. Rural areas have far too much sway in #elections given their lack of population density.