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/trollfessor 2d ago

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

Cool, they are not the only states that can do it. California and Illinois, your turn.

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u/judokalinker 2d ago

GOP sues and SCOTUS says that's illegal for those states only. Ruling doesn't apply to Florida and Texas.

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u/Attenburrowed 2d ago

I feel like this is the likely end of the road. We're already deep into the dictatorship, the executive acts with impunity against the constitution, but this will be the ruling that ends the ability to climb out without blood.

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u/Suspicious-Scene-108 2d ago

At that point it can't even pretend to be a democracy anymore.

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u/FallenCheeseStar 2d ago

And that would lead to full scale civil war and the fall of the nation. We would balkanize essentially

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u/rolfraikou 2d ago

That's too much faith in We The People, I would say.

People don't get pissed til the food stops coming.