The gerrymandering games have just begun: how much is this is racial?

 The gerrymander games have just begun. The sport is to see how many congressional districts can be lopsided in the perp's favor. Texas is making it no secret that the purpose of redrawing district boundaries is to eliminate competitive or blue-leaning districts and replace them with sure-fire majorities for their party, in fear that the 2026 midterms will flip Congress from red to blue. The Supreme Court has taken the position that gerrymandering for political/ partisan gain is ok and not in their purview. However, they are still bound to consider racial gerrymandering due to civil rights laws and constitutional amendments. As major large state Democrat governors are going to go and do likewise to gerrymander to offset the Texas GOP strategy to try to distort the power the GOP has in Congress in the 2026 midterm elections. California is calling this fighting fire with fire.. Their greatest weapon Democrats have against Texas is to point out that this is not political gerrymandering, but simultaneously racial gerrymandering that results in watering down the power of districts once represented by a racial minority member. The case in point is how Texas plans to split up the Austin (more blue) area with mostly blue dominated districts into fragments that reach out like wheel spokes to suburbs...and result in making what used to be the minority race with the majority voters, now become a minority within districts dominated by the white majority. This may still end up in Trump's Supreme Court.

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The antidote to this is to have every state divide Congressional (local house) boundaries through an independent commission whose job is to strike a balance representative of the makeup and registration of their voters. The purpose is to avoid situations like Wisconsin's state house, which had overwhelming GOP domination in the state house because they controlled so many districts due to gerrymandering, when the popular vote went the other way in presidential elections. If legislatures alone draw boundaries, whoever controls the local state house always get their way.  Taking it out of the legislature and giving it to an independent commission, though legislatures usually have a final role in approving what the commissions propose.  Colorado has such a system, but states that have, in good conscience, adopted the independent system, but are unable to participate in the gerrymander games. The answer is to require all states at the same time.

Per Supreme Court makes major announcement 

Louisiana v. Callais, a case challenging Louisiana's congressional map, is set for reargument on October 15. The justices first heard arguments in the redistricting case earlier this year. The Court will consider whether the map is racially gerrymandered to create majority-minority districts and whether the new districts violate the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. use the commission system to get the problem solved on an equal footing to avoid such games.

Oct. 15, the Supreme Court will hear a case that may be relevant to the Texas atrocity