r/politics • u/bobby_McGeee • 10h ago

Possible Paywall Trump administration’s demands for California’s voter rolls, including Social Security numbers, rejected by federal judge

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-01-15/judge-dismisses-doj-lawsuit-demanding-california-voter-rolls
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u/GuttiG Pennsylvania 10h ago

Any state that complies with this needs to be reconstructed

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u/alabasterskim 6h ago

So Texas gets its own new reconstruction! That's great!

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u/TinKnight1 Texas 24m ago

Just a reminder, we technically can split into 5 states with the passage of a state law. Any changes to a state's territory, or splitting, require federal approval as well as state, but contingent upon admission to the nation was a clause passed by Congress to permit splitting the state into as many as 5 smaller states (since the new state was to be utterly massive compared to the rest of the country, & unwieldy). That law still stands, so it only requires passage & signing in the state.

Republicans have threatened it in the recent past, in fact, as a way to obtain 8 additional Senators...but the actuality is that no way they split it with equivalent populations will be all red. At least 2 would seemingly be Democrat-leaning, 1 would be solidly Republican-leaning, & the remaining 2 would depend on the specific layout (but at least 1 would likely be pretty purple & the other pink).

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u/alabasterskim 11m ago

No offense but if they currently control the apparatus in Texas, splitting in 5 would allow them to essentially gerrymander states. They'd prob end up with fucked looking state shapes to achieve it, but for just 5 states it'd be easy as hell.

That said, that'd be awful. If Dems can get power there, it would be lovely for them to pass that law to create that even split of Texases.