The US Supreme Court denied the California Republican Party’s request to block California’s map, which was endorsed by voters last year as a counterweight to a similar effort in Texas aimed at giving Republicans five more U.S. House seats. The Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, in December allowed Texas to use its redrawn map for this year’s voting.
Depending on your level of faith in the US Supreme Court (which, for many in the fediverse, is probably quite low) this may or may not have surprised you.
Personally, I wasn’t too surprised given they had approved Texas’s gerrymandered map earlier, but was nonetheless relieved.
However, despite feeling relieved I cannot help but feel disappointed that the only way to counteract voter suppression in one state is with more voter suppression in another. It really points to just how broken the US system is and why we are in desperate need of reform.