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California Supreme Court declines to stop Newsom's redistricting plan (www.cbsnews.com)

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The California Supreme Court will not prevent Democrats from moving forward Thursday with a plan to redraw congressional districts.

Republicans in the Golden State had asked the state's high court to step in and temporarily block the redistricting efforts, arguing that Democrats — who are racing to put the plan on the ballot later this year — had skirted a rule requiring state lawmakers to wait at least 30 days before passing newly introduced legislation.

But in a ruling late Wednesday, the court declined to act, writing that the Republican state lawmakers who filed the suit had "failed to meet their burden of establishing a basis for relief at this time."

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

This is sad that america is being shown how little voting matters when district manipulation occurs.

Single representative geographically constrained districts are already a bad system. The fact that these districts have swollen from 15-20k (at the nation's founding) to 600k+ (in the modern day) have only escalated the degree to which politicians (and their donors) get to pick their voters.

If you want to talk about fixing our broken political system, we need to consider uncapping the total number of House Reps (an artificial limit imposed back in the 1920s to benefit incumbents) and shrink district sizes and afford voters the freedom to select representatives outside the constraint of voting districts.

Bemoaning the gamesmanship over district shapes, at this stage, is just arguing over how you want the game to be rigged. But the idea that districts which are more swing-y are somehow "more fair" than ones that are entrenched by a particular party ignores the dynamics that swing a district to begin with (money, media access, internal party politics). People outside the party duopoly are still wholly unrepresented. People on the losing end of an election are also unrepresented. And people who can't access their elected representative (because they can't afford a $2000/plate fund raising lunch) are also unrepresented.

[-] aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

If you want to talk about fixing our broken political system, we need to consider uncapping the total number of House Reps

The US came very close to having a first amendment that had a low cap for the number of people one house rep could represent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Apportionment_Amendment

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