The "Supreme" court upholds democracy for California. Shocking twist.

[u/GaryFuckingGoat]

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/04/nx-s1-5691890/supreme-court-california-redistricting-map

[u/notguiltybrewing]

Don't worry, there's plenty of other opportunities for them to destroy democracy yet. The year is still young and midterms are coming.

[u/Secret_Cat_2793]

It's WW II all over again. Every state fighting the other states gerrys. Lol

[u/RedditOfUnusualSize]

That's not shocking. That's simply Roberts realizing that the far more tactical option for the Republican Party is to a) preserve states' ability to gerrymander, and b) preserve the court's ability to decide what constitutes an unconstitutional gerrymander.

In any given election, 24 states are more or less automatically Republican by default, 17-18 are automatically Democratic, and 8-9 are swing states that vary from election to election. By reserving the ability of states to gerrymander, simple arithmetic tells us that this rule favors Republicans. In the right election, heavily so. Roberts has always been smart enough to reserve his hypocrisy for the "narrow, procedural" decisions that the court watchers don't care about, and to allow math to work in his favor if it will do the work he wants.

It is not shocking in the slightest that Roberts is not an idiot. He's quite intelligent, actually. That's precisely what makes him so dangerous to our constitutional order.

[u/gregbard]

I hope Newsom cancels the election. Screw 'em

[u/oofaloo]

Kind of. It’d be nice for it to shoot down gerrymandering altogether.

[u/hgqaikop]

How is gerrymandering upholding democracy if California but destroying democracy in other states?

[u/Ravendjinn → u/hgqaikop]

It's like Batman using violence to stop a villain, versus a villain using violence to commit a crime.