Democrats Plot Eleventh-Hour ‘Gerrymandering’ Effort To Oust Maryland’s Sole Republican Rep
'since they know they can’t win on the Eastern Shore with their far-left ideas, is trying to win by gerrymandering'
Another Democratic plot to gerrymander 3 congressional seats goes down in FLAMES
Democrats just lost the opportunity to gain three seats in the battle to control Congress after a state supreme court blocked their effort to redistrict the election maps.
The effort by a group called Coloradans for a Level Playing Field involved three separate ballot proposals, one of which would have changed the Colorado redistricting map for the 2028 and 2030 election cycles, if approved by the voters.
'While Trump and his MAGA allies regularly sidestep the law and ignore voters, efforts to respond have once again been dealt a legal setback over a technicality.'
Redistricting would have given Democrats the chance to pick up three extra seats. The Colorado Supreme Court said the effort violated the "single subject requirement" for ballot measures.
"Changing the constitutionally mandated frequency of redistricting — however temporary the change — is not merely a mechanism to administer the new congressional district map," wrote Chief Justice Monica Márquez in one of the unanimous decisions issued Monday. "Instead, it represents a seismic shift to Colorado’s longstanding redistricting process enshrined in the state constitution."
Curtis Hubbard, the spokesperson for the group sponsoring the bills, called the ruling "disappointing" in a statement on the group's website.
"While Trump and his MAGA allies regularly sidestep the law and ignore voters, efforts to respond have once again been dealt a legal setback over a technicality," he added.
National Republican Redistricting Trust President Adam Kincaid praised the ruling.
"Complete and total victory in Colorado!" he said on the X platform. "In a win for voters and the Colorado Constitution, the Colorado Supreme Court resoundingly rejects Democrats' attempt to manipulate the initiative process."
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According to the Coloradans for a Level Playing Field's math, Republicans may be able to pick up as many as 11 seats in Congress now that the group's gerrymandering initiatives have been blocked.
The group will not have the opportunity to amend their initiatives and have them appear on the next election ballot, ending the effort in Colorado.
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Republicans just got another victory at the U.S. Supreme Court.
The highest court in the land approved the redistricted congressional map for Alabama in a 6-3 decision released late on Tuesday evening. All three liberal justices dissented.
'Our message to communities remains the same — the best way to express dissent is by showing up at the ballot box this election season.'
One of Alabama's majority-black districts will be eliminated by the new map.
The dissent, written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, accused the majority justices of "unleashing chaos" with the decision, likely confusing voters at this late stage in the election season.
"Just as Alabama doubled down on racial discrimination, the Court today doubles down on chaos," Sotomayor claimed. "Because I choose to defend the rule of law and the right of all Alabamians to participate equally in democracy, I respectfully dissent."
Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey released a statement in support of the decision.
"The U.S. Supreme Court confirmed what I have said all along, and that is that Alabama knows our state, our people, and our districts best," she wrote. "Today's decision is a win for the people of Alabama and our elections."
Democrats were outraged over the decision.
"The Supreme Court has now confirmed that there is no longer a Voting Rights Act in America, and states are essentially free to discriminate against minority voters with no consequences," said Rep. Shomari Figures (D-Ala.), whose district was eliminated by the redistricting.
"Once again, the right-wing Supreme Court has put its blatant partisanship on full display, allowing Alabama Republicans to change the rules in the eleventh hour and use a racist congressional map that federal courts have found — on two separate occasions — intentionally discriminates against Black Alabama voters," read a statement from Rep. Terri Sewell, a Democrat from Alabama.
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"This is just the latest in a pattern of outrageous Supreme Court decisions that help Republicans desperately cling to power ahead of the midterm elections while diluting Black voices and erasing decades of hard-fought civil rights progress," Sewell added.
She went on to accuse Republicans of taking America "back to the Jim Crow era," an accusation that was repeated by the NAACP.
"This is a Court that is stripping Black voters of power and voice at a speed that would put Jim Crow jurists to shame," said Kristen Clarke, general counsel of the NAACP. "Our message to communities remains the same — the best way to express dissent is by showing up at the ballot box this election season."
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Judge Joshua Hawkes denied the Elias Law Group's 'extraordinary and drastic' request to issue a preliminary injunction blocking the new map from going into effect.Whitlock blasts NAACP for ‘victimology’ message targeting young black athletes
The NAACP has called for young black athletes to boycott Southern sports programs in light of redistricting, and BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock is tired of the organization's victim mindset poisoning the youth.
“The NAACP has been set up as an institutional leader for black people, and they continue to promote the message that we’re owed something, we’re victims, and that young black people, you need to make these incredible sacrifices," Whitlock tells Virgil Walker.
“The idea that blacks are being marginalized … is absolutely inaccurate and false,” Walker agrees.
“No black person is now not able to vote that was voting. No black person is marginalized. There are no tests that are going to be in place at voting booths. … Nothing is going to change. But they’ve leveraged that to an audience for whom they’ve preached victimology,” he says.
“They want to leverage young black players at the very moment in their lives when they’re actually coming into opportunity, education, and money,” Walker says, pointing out that the organization is “nowhere to be found” when those kids are struggling during their youth.
“And the moment at which these kids are about to walk through a door of opportunity, the NAACP says, ‘Oh, hold up, hold up. Before you go there, we need to take all of that opportunity away from you, because you need to spend that equity, that sweat equity, with us,” he continues.
“That kind of messaging should scream so loud in the ears of parents that they begin to see organizations like the NAACP for the fraudulent organizations that they are,” he adds.
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