How the Supreme Court enabled the Texas-California redistricting fight [View all]

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San Francisco Chronicle: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/congressional-district-texas-california-20794465.php

Mostly basic background, I thought this bit relevant:

Unlike Texas, the change [in California] would likely require approval in a special election by California voters, who passed a ballot measure in 2010 transferring authority over political redistricting of House districts from the Legislature to an independent commission, with equal representation from both parties. A special election would be expensive — the most recent one in California, in 2021, cost the state $200 million — and the outcome would be hard to predict.

The state’s voters have “overwhelmingly approved taking politics out of the process,” said Rick Hasen, a professor of election law at UCLA. Asking them to approve a partisan gerrymander of congressional districts, he said, “seems pretty daunting politically.”