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applegrove

(133,103 posts)
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 01:12 PM Oct 2025

Republicans Could Draw 19 More House Seats

Republicans Could Draw 19 More House Seats

October 8, 2025 at 9:11 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 132 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2025/10/08/republicans-could-draw-19-more-house-seats/


“Democratic voting rights groups are preparing for a nightmare scenario if the Supreme Court guts a key part of the landmark civil rights-era legislation, the Voting Rights Act — a very real possibility this term,” Politico reports.

“Ahead of the court’s Oct. 15 rehearing of Louisiana v. Callais — a case that has major implications for the VRA — two voting rights groups are sounding the alarm, warning that eliminating Section 2, a provision that prohibits racial gerrymandering when it dilutes minority voting power, would let Republicans redraw up to 19 House seats to favor the party and crush minority representation in Congress.”

David Gans: “In the two decades John Roberts has served as chief justice, the Supreme Court he presides over has repeatedly decimated the Voting Rights Act, striking a series of savage blows to the law long hailed as the crown jewel of the Civil Rights Movement. This term, in Louisiana v. Callais, the Voting Rights Act is in the crosshairs once again, as the court’s conservative supermajority might strike down the act’s last standing pillar.”
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Republicans Could Draw 19 More House Seats (Original Post) applegrove Oct 2025 OP
It's horrible that there are so many dimwits Klarkashton Oct 2025 #1
More people to fuck the US. Turbineguy Oct 2025 #2
I dare them SSJVegeta Oct 2025 #3

Klarkashton

(5,421 posts)
1. It's horrible that there are so many dimwits
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 01:24 PM
Oct 2025

That would continue to vote for those bastards and that this is a concern.

SSJVegeta

(3,132 posts)
3. I dare them
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 01:44 PM
Oct 2025

Trying to further gerrymandering many of these states will have the inevitable immediate consequences of turning it into an extreme dummymander. Especially in a midterm. When the president's party is seeing extreme disapproval.

Bring. It. On.

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