Comments on: Redistricting Scorecard http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/11/19/redistricting-scorecard/ Reality-based political commentary Mon, 25 May 2026 02:47:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/11/19/redistricting-scorecard/#comment-221502 nypoet22 Sat, 22 Nov 2025 01:38:43 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=27030#comment-221502 @kick, back in 2010 when they ruled that corporations have free speech rights and campaign donations count as speech, i thought the scotus had sunk pretty low. now it's practically parody level. they'll put SNL out of business. @kick,

back in 2010 when they ruled that corporations have free speech rights and campaign donations count as speech, i thought the scotus had sunk pretty low. now it's practically parody level. they'll put SNL out of business.

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/11/19/redistricting-scorecard/#comment-221491 Kick Fri, 21 Nov 2025 01:37:34 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=27030#comment-221491 As for the Texas off-year redistricting ordered by Donald Trump, the DOJ July 2025 correspondence that focused on the racial makeup of the existing districts (where Black and Hispanic voters together form a majority but no single group does) and the DOJ specifically directs Texas to remedy that situation... that written evidence was directly the catalyst that sunk their gerrymandering efforts. It wouldn't take a rocket scientist to read that correspondence from Trump's DOJ to find that the districts were redrawn racially based on its contents and therefore unconstitutionally. It didn't help their case when the moronic Governor of Texas took that DOJ correspondence and directly tied it to the redistricting ordered by Trump when he called for a special session to "resolve DOJ's concerns"... more evidence tying it to a racial gerrmander which is (at the present time) unconstitutional. Would we put it past the SCOTUS to look at the evidence and conclude it was purely political gerrymandering despite the fact it speaks directly regarding racial makeup and is loaded with racial statistics? No... no, we definitely would not. As for the Texas off-year redistricting ordered by Donald Trump, the DOJ July 2025 correspondence that focused on the racial makeup of the existing districts (where Black and Hispanic voters together form a majority but no single group does) and the DOJ specifically directs Texas to remedy that situation... that written evidence was directly the catalyst that sunk their gerrymandering efforts.

It wouldn't take a rocket scientist to read that correspondence from Trump's DOJ to find that the districts were redrawn racially based on its contents and therefore unconstitutionally. It didn't help their case when the moronic Governor of Texas took that DOJ correspondence and directly tied it to the redistricting ordered by Trump when he called for a special session to "resolve DOJ's concerns"... more evidence tying it to a racial gerrmander which is (at the present time) unconstitutional.

Would we put it past the SCOTUS to look at the evidence and conclude it was purely political gerrymandering despite the fact it speaks directly regarding racial makeup and is loaded with racial statistics? No... no, we definitely would not.

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/11/19/redistricting-scorecard/#comment-221478 nypoet22 Thu, 20 Nov 2025 02:10:03 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=27030#comment-221478 hopeless optimist that i am, i think they might interpret article 1 section 2 to mean that barring extreme circumstances mid decade redistricting of Congress is unconstitutional hopeless optimist that i am, i think they might interpret article 1 section 2 to mean that barring extreme circumstances mid decade redistricting of Congress is unconstitutional

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