Supreme Court Allows California's New Congressional Map
The Spin
Democratic narrative
This is not just an enormous win for California but for democracy nationwide. California's mid-decade redistricting is a necessary democratic countermeasure against Republican racial gerrymandering in Texas and other red states. It's crucial that Republicans not be allowed to steal the next election as a Democratic Congress is essential to stopping the rubber-stamping of unconstitutional executive overreach and restoring Congress’ role as a real check on power..
Republican narrative
SCOTUS has let down the nation by cowardly rubber-stamping this naked power grab by the Democrats, who will now surgically gerrymander California's map mid-decade and unfairly gain several Congressional seats. Red states must continue to fight back with equally aggressive redistricting because California just torched the nonpartisan Citizens Redistricting Commission voters created to stop exactly this kind of political warfare.
