"They've triggered this response and we're not going to roll over and we're going to fight fire with fire, but we're going to do so not just punching with the weight of the fourth largest economy, the most populous state in our union, the size of 21 state populations combined.

"We also will punch above our weight in terms of the impact of what we're doing, and I think that should be absorbed by those in the Texas delegation. Whatever they are doing will be neutered here in the state of California, and they will pay that price."

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul have likewise indicated they could be prepared to act in kind if Texas proceeds with its gerrymandering manoeuvre

Blue states shooting themselves in the foot by ending gerrymandering while leaving red states free to do so was a complete bonehead move.

Bad enough that flyover red states like Wyoming with 1.5% the population of California get as many Senators. Blue states didn't need to go out of their way to hand the House to the GOP as well.

It's the Liberal Conundrum.
#3 | Posted by donnerboy

Doing what they believe is right (like sitting out elections where neither candidate is perfect), versus what actually helps advance their causes (like voting for the guy or gal who is less likely to kneecap progressivism for the next 60 years).

So here we are.

a simple google will tell you that the districts in a wide area of LA
have been democrat gerrymandering at it's highest level.
#12 | Posted by shrimptacodan

So, I guess the Repubs have nothing to lose if Cali starts gerrymandering again. Which makes it strange that this guy wants to sue over it.

Why does California care about what Texas does? How does the redistricting in Texas affect Cali?
#15 | Posted by boaz

Seriously? Are you just playing dumb?

I'm truly surprised at the number of folks who were confused about this topic.
#31 | Posted by rstybeach11

Dems voted their feelings and in favor of "good government" by unilaterally disarming, ending gerrymander in blue states. Repubs, on the other hand, listened to their leaders and held onto gerrymandering for dear life.

Republicans lucked out in how stupid their opponents were. About time Dems undid this act in self-immolation.

End the gerrymander? Go for it. But condition it on every other state doing the same.

Many here would be cheering "Yeah! Stick it to Texas" when it's really "Yeah, Stick it to Californians" That's how it will play out. Which is why nobody thinks he serious.
#35 | Posted by eberly

The GOP HoR has repeatedly cut taxes on billionaires by limiting the SALT deduction, which favors blue states.

They've escalated a war
A war which the GOP would otherwise win if there were no dem response at all, so what's the risk

in which the Republicans have a structural advantage
#41 | Posted by BellRinger

Size of the House is set by statute. As soon as the Dems take control of presidency and legislative, the can deal with that by massively increasing the number of seats.

In the 1st United States Congress (1789-1791), there were 65 members in the House of Representatives. Based on an estimated population of 3.7 million for the 13 states at the time, this meant there was approximately one representative for every 57,169 people

Will that ever happen? Not likely. The people making the rules are unlikely to do anything that would reduce their own individual importance, even if it would be best for their party and nation.

If you knew how things work, you wouldnt support the party that is always worse for the economy, that invented trickle down economics and the drug war, that lied us into iraq, became the cult of a con man, attempted a coup, and protects pedophiles.
#47 | Posted by SpeakSoftly

Cut it out, man. Wu Mao Russian Troll sockpuppet OneIronTurd is a Bernie Bro who supports everything the Republican Party says and does.

You know he's for real because he says he a resident of California, even though he didn't know who its US Senators are, or that Baldwin Park is part of Los Angeles. Just like a real Californian.

The gerrymander in California is outrageous. Of their 52 congressional districts, nine of them are Republican. That means 17 percent of their delegation is Republican when Republicans regularly win 40 percent of the vote in that state. How can this be possibly allowed?
#64 | Posted by visitor_

You don't understand how a 40% vote could lose an election? The fact that California has a single Republican representative after they voted to raise Californian's taxes in 2016 with Trump's first tax cut gift to billionaires is the real shock.

Dems offered a bill to end gerrymandering nationwide. Zero republican votes.
#76 | Posted by SpeakSoftly

If it makes you feel any better, Trump's SCOTUS would have struck that down anyway.

The GOP didn't take all three branches by hook and by crook to let a little thing like democracy stand in their way.