Inportant fact to consider is that: Political gerrymandering is a “non-justicable political question” according to the supreme court, meaning the courts claim they have no constitutional power to decide this, and its up to congress (via passing a bill with the president’s approval) to decide if it should be legal, and in the mean time, it’s currently legal.
Republicans have been gerrymandering in red states.
Democrats in blue states on the otherhand, are either currently using non-partisan or bi-partisan commitees/commissions to draw the districting maps, or are in the process of switching to said methods of drawing the districting maps.
This mean that the house would become tipped in favor of republicans.
California and New York surely has a lot of red districts that we can gerrymander out of. The question is: Should Democrats do that? Should Democrats play dirty like republicans have? (Again, supreme court have said that political gerrymandering is legal)
Because I fear that we would have republicans perpetually in control of the house even if Democrats have the most votes nationwide.
Democrats have been gerrymandering since they discovered it was legal. Sure a republican was first way back when, but as soon as they realized it was legal the democrats were doing the same thing. And of course both sides complained about the other doing it when the other was in power as if they were not doing the same. Once in a while someone puts some restriction in place but this is a clear case of both sides are doing it.
Very-blue New York has an anti-gerrymandering law so severe that that it netted Red three seats two years ago.
Very-red North Carolina just ignored court rulings and gerrymandering their way to three extra seats this year. And then there’s Texas.
While both sides SHOULD play by the same set of rules, they aren’t. Not even close.
Democrats are so bad at it tho.
For example, some of the blue states, California, New York, Washington, Colorado, New Jersy, uses a Non-Partisan Independent Commission. These commissions are not gonna gerrymander maps.
Meanwhile, every red state has the republican-dominated legislature draw the maps. They gerrymander the shit out of them.