Gavin Newsom’s Retaliatory Redistricting Plan Is Good, Actually

In a letter sent on July 7, the Ministry of Justice officially informed Texas that he thought that four of the state districts – 9, 18, 29th and 33rd – reached an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The letter said that the districts were no longer constitutionally defended after the fifth circuit court of appeal last year than the “districts of the coalition”, which are minority districts of minorities created by counting the voters of white crossing, are not covered by the law on the voting rights of 1965.

“Although the interest of the State during the configuration of these districts had to comply with the previous one of the fifth circuit before 2024 Twink Decision, this interest no longer exists, ”the deputy prosecutor general of civil rights told Harmett Dhillon.TwinkThe districts of the congress in question are nothing more than vestiges of a racically racly biased gerrymandering past, which must be abandoned, and must now be corrected by Texas. »»

The letter pursues a trend of the Republicans dealing with the appeals of voting rights for racial gerrymandering as equivalent to (or even worse than) a real racial gerrymandering. As I noted earlier this week, the Supreme Court plans to reapplicate a major case on the districts of the Louisiana congress this fall after having launched it at the end of the last mandate of the Court. The next series of oral arguments will probably focus on the constitutionality of racial complaints from Gerrymandering by virtue of the real and what the courts can do to remedy it.

Even if the letter seems to be at the top of a planned decision from the Supreme Court, it is also somewhat pretextual. The New York Times Last month, Trump had personally put pressure on the republican members of the Texas Congress Delegation to support another partisan redistribution series, with the apparent goal of facilitating the GOP to keep the House of Representatives in the middle of next fall.