Quite a lot of issues occurred throughout Tuesday night time’s blue wave that noticed Democrats successful key state elections throughout the nation. New York Metropolis received its first Muslim mayor, to the dismay of seething Islamaphobes all over the place. Girls turned governors and mayors for the primary time within the historical past of states and cities that have been traditionally white, male-exclusive of their management positions. Republicans even misplaced their supermajority within the deep pink and much more deeply racist state of Mississippi.
And in California, voters authorized Proposition 50 in a particular election, green-lighting a brand new map of congressional districts — and a few California Republicans are so mad about it they’ve filed a lawsuit.
In accordance with ABC 7, the California Republican Occasion on Wednesday introduced a federal lawsuit geared toward blocking the state’s new Home maps. State Assemblyman David Tangipa, the lead plaintiff within the lawsuit, made the announcement throughout a press convention, alongside Corrin Rankin, chairwoman of the California Republican Occasion, and lawyer Mike Columbo of the Dhillon Legislation Group. Eighteen California voters are additionally co-plaintiffs within the go well with, which alleges that Prop 50 “unconstitutionally gerrymanders districts in violation of the 14th and fifteenth Amendments.”
The poll measure created a brand new congressional map with the purpose of giving Democrats 5 extra congressional seats, which is strictly what Texas Republicans are doing, and on the behest of President Donald Trump, no much less.
From ABC 7:
Championed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, the poll initiative intends to offset the results of President Donald Trump’s efforts in Texas so as to add 5 Republican-held seats to Congress as Republicans search to take care of their management of the U.S. Home forward of the 2026 midterm election.
How the Golden State votes will possible impression which get together retains management of Congress in 2026 and the way Californians are represented within the nation’s capital.
Tens of thousands and thousands of {dollars} have been poured into the competition from each side of the aisle, as Newsom aimed to border the battle as a combat to save lots of democracy from Trump and Republicans intention to depict it as an influence seize from Democrats.
So, California Democrats efficiently performed an Uno reverse card in opposition to Texas Republicans, and now, California Republicans are purporting to guard the suitable to vote by — *checks notes* — subverting the desire of California voters, 64% of whom voted in favor of Prop 50.
Look, Republicans can attempt to body this as a Democrat “energy seize” all they need, and they’re going to, however solely as a result of their dimwitted constituents received’t query whether or not or not their very own gerrymandering additionally constitutes grabbing for energy.
In any case, Texas isn’t the one state taking part in these video games. Over the past handful of years, Florida, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina have all engaged in congressional redistricting, and, in lots of circumstances, they’ve executed it with the expressed intention to dilute Black and Latino voting energy below the guise of “race-neutrality.”
The reality is, Republicans are fearful of what’s to come back within the midterm elections subsequent 12 months, and Tuesday night time illustrates precisely why they’re afraid.
However that also means Democrats should preserve this momentum going for an additional 12 months. Don’t get complacent, of us, as a result of, clearly, the MAGA-fied opposition received’t.
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