I am rarely rendered speechless, but I kind of was when I saw this headline on the New York Times. Supreme Court clears way for

California voting map, the subhead. The state's Republican Party had asked the justices to step in and

block the new congressional maps, which give an advantage to Democrats before the midterms.

I'm going to do my best not to be speechless because I need to talk to you guys about this.

Why is there so shocking?

Well, because it benefits Democrats for this decision to be reached.

Of course, we don't know who signed the order.

It doesn't give us a vote count, so we don't know if it was 5-4 or 6-3 in favor.

But we do know that this has to do with the fact that last year, the Supreme Court paved the way for Texas to continue using its altered maps.

Texas is ground zero for all of this.

In response to pressure from Donald, Texas decided to do something unheard of to

redraw their congressional maps in between the census. Now, the census, according to the

Constitution, must be held every 10 years. The last one was in 2020. The next one be in

2030. And it is then that based on the new population data, congressional maps are redrawn

or done away with altogether or what have you. It is not supposed to happen in a nonsensus year.

And yet, Republicans in Texas decided that they were going to take the

opportunity, even though it's unconstitutional, to change the map to create essentially five

seats for Republicans, putting them completely out of reach of Democrats.

So it was not surprising when the corrupt illegitimate super majority of the Supreme Court said,

sure, Texas, go ahead and do this unconstitutional thing to help you hang on to control of the House after the 2026 midterms.

For a change, Democrats decided to play hardball, to fight fire with fire, if you will,

and states like California, Maryland, New York, Illinois, decided that they too were going

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