In late 2025, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that set the Democrat world on fire.
The court said the new Texas maps could remain in play because it was too late in the game to change them, and Democrats lost their minds.
Well, the court just approved California’s Prop 50, and Dems are now sitting on their hands.
The Texas maps are clearly gerrymandered, and I have never hidden my displeasure over Trump asking Governor Greg Abbott to redraw the maps mid-decade to try to help the GOP win the 2026 cycle.
When the request was made, I stated that Democrats would follow suit, and they did, while also challenging the maps in Texas.
The maps worked their way through the courts, eventually going up before the Supreme Court, where it was decided that the maps would be permitted to stay in place.
In part, the majority ruling stated, “Texas is likely to succeed on the merits of its claim that the District Court committed at least two serious errors.” The court further stated that the lower court “improperly inserted itself into an active primary campaign, causing much confusion and upsetting the delicate federal-state balance in elections.”
First, I want to note that Justice Kagan dissented from the opinion, blistering the majority, so file that in the back of your head for the part of this report.
Democrats also went ballistic over the ruling. In part, DNC Chair Ken Martin stated, “Today’s decision by the Supreme Court to allow Texas Republicans’ rigged, racially gerrymandered maps to go into effect is wrong — both morally and legally. Once again, the Supreme Court gave Trump exactly what he wanted: a rigged map to help Republicans avoid accountability in the midterms for turning their backs on the American people.”
Texas House Democratic Leader Rep. Gene Wu added, “The Supreme Court failed Texas voters today, and they failed American democracy. This is what the end of the Voting Rights Act looks like: courts that won’t protect minority communities even when the evidence is staring them in the face.”
But, as we know, Democrats did the same thing. While saying gerrymandering maps at this point of the cycle is illegal, they then gerrymandered maps, but it’s okay because if you ask them, they still have the moral high ground here.
When the court permitted the Texas maps, I predicted it would have no choice but approve the California maps, especially since California made it a ballot measure.
Well, the court has refused to intervene here, with no dissenting opinion published, so it would appear that Justice Kagan has now flipped. Now, if court members had any integrity, every one of them would have voted exactly as they had in the Texas case, but that clearly did not happen here.
I would also note that while Democrats ripped the court for its Texas opinion, we are hearing nothing but crickets for the court remaining consistent in how it is treating these cases.
Like it or not, the court made the only ruling it possibly could have after the previous decision was made. I warned everyone that this was a fight that we could not win. Believe me, I take no pleasure in being right, but I surely wish the GOP would think these decisions out before making knee-jerk decisions like this.
