The GOP Just Found Out That Gerrymandering For Partisan Advantage Will LOSE Them Seats... Hilarious!

Look -- in a perfect world. . . none of this would take place. People would vote in groups naturally formed by communities. . . of very long standing. [This is no perfect world, any longer.]

And so, in the time of Tangerine 2.0, where Texas and Florida and other red states try to (and in a few cases, have succeeded in) diluting low-income, and brown and Black and Democratic voting blocs, this will become an ongoing jousting match.

But it is "jousting" the GOP is destined to lose, on a nationwide basis -- where it matters most -- in national elections for the House and Senate (and obviously, 1600 Penn.).

That is so, because there are simply far more lower income, brown and Black and Democratic men and women voters nationwide than there are rich, whyte land-owning GOP voters [millions upon millions of them -- regardless of papers v. no papers].

So, if MAGA/Texas is able to pick up one seat, for the GOP, by torturing its electoral maps (as Justice Alito himself opined in December 2025), California may effortlessly pick up. . . FIVE, for the Democratic Party. There are so many more Democrats in California, Illinois, Colorado, New York, and Wisconsin -- to draw from. Stupid GOP. Here's the latest order, and below it -- a bit from Amy Howe at SCOTUSBlog, this afternoon:

. . .WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2026 | ORDER IN PENDING CASE
25-A-839 | TANGIPA, DAVID, ET AL. V. NEWSOM, GOV. OF CA, ET AL.

The application for writ of injunction pending appeal presented to Justice Kagan and by her referred to the Court is denied. . . .

[Amy Howe:] The [GOP] challengers came to the Supreme Court on Jan. 20, asking the justices to step in. They argued that the state’s goal all along had been “offsetting a perceived racial gerrymander in Texas.” Moreover, they added, the lower court should have given more weight to the testimony by the private consultant, Paul Mitchell, who drew the new map – and who “boasted publicly and on social media,” they said, that the new map “would maintain, if not expand, Latino voting power in California.” They asked the court to act by Feb. 9, when the window for congressional candidates to file paperwork declaring their candidacies opens in California.

The state countered that the lower court considered statements by the private consultant and state legislators, but it had nonetheless concluded that the new map was not racially motivated. More broadly, it contended, the [GOP] challengers were “asking the Court to treat California’s map differently from how it treated Texas’s map, thereby allowing a Republican-led State to engage in partisan gerrymandering while forbidding a Democratic-led State from responding in kind. . . .”

Ah. . . Thank you, Justice Alito -- "what's good for the goose -- is good for the gander, too". Lovely -- and being decades in Chicago, we well know you cannot afford to bring a knife -- to a gun fight. That's the Chicago way.

I don't love it -- but I do respect it. Play hard ball -- and break some noses.

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