The Supreme Court could've slowed this down --

by omahadomer, Saturday, March 14, 2026, 21:36 (75 days ago) @ NDinVA

they decided 5-4 in Rucho v. Common Cause (2019) that refereeing political gerrymandering was a "political question" and there weren't "judicially manageable standards" to enforce. The maps were grotesque and one from a red state and one from a blue state (Maryland was the blue state and N.C. the red state).

The maps were ridiculous. Although N.C. has been very close in terms of total votes cast for each party in congressional elections, they managed to squeeze out a map that split it 10-3 in favor of the GOP. Kagan in dissent said essentially "I know it when I see it." She pointed out that of 300 randomly generated maps, none produced a 10-3 split.

Texas may come to regret the map it drew. They had to water down a lot of really safe GOP seats to come up with 5 more that are supposedly going to be red. But the way things are going a lot of those R+10 to R+6 seats that they thought were safe are looking to be mighty competitive, especially where the Dems have recruited good candidates.

NE-2, which has been in GOP hands for all but 2 of the last 20 years looks likely to switch blue. The Dems have a bunch of good candidates in a primary and the certain GOP nominee is full MAGA. Retiring Rep. Don Bacon walked a very fine line and managed to hang on in extremely close elections as the overall district got more blue. (Biden and Harris both carried it.) I'm not donating in the Dem primary but I will definitely support the Democratic nominee in the general.

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