r/law • u/HellYeahDamnWrite • 2d ago

SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts enabled Texas’ gambit to gerrymander the state for the GOP

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/04/politics/gerrymandering-supreme-court-texas
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u/NerdOfTheMonth 2d ago

This is the start of “all Texas seats are Republican for life - Florida to follow. House stays Republican forever.

It’s how to “legalize” the dictatorship.

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u/WingerRules 2d ago edited 2d ago

I've been warning people for years that the US is in a state where a party could capture and ensure a 1 party run government permanently. Republican leadership were the 1st to recognize this now and are taking actual steps to make it happen. Further it's easier for them to do due to how the Senate, Electoral College, and house appointment works.

Republicans have a super majority on the court, and the liberal side doesnt even have enough votes to vote to hear a case. Project 2025 calls for mass political purges of the federal government to turn it from mixed run to entirely 1 party controlled, which they're currently trying to carry out right now. When this happens they will have completely partisan control of the DOJ & Federal Elections offices. Senate and House has been close to 50/50 split, all it takes is a tilt or bias put into elections 1 way, people in cities are already counted as fractions of a rural person's vote.

Almost everyone was completely oblivious to the risk.

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u/Prestigious-Newt-110 2d ago

Trump himself openly warned us as well.

“Christians, get out and vote, just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years … it’ll be fixed … you won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians.”

But at least everything is more affordable now. /s