"How the Supreme Court emboldened Democrats in California and elsewhere redrawing US House maps"

Fredreka Schouten for CNN :

It was “indisputable,” Alito wrote, that “the impetus for the adoption of the Texas map (like the map subsequently adopted in California) was partisan advantage pure and simple.” He wrote for himself and two other conservatives, Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch.

The court’s statements could give Democratic- and Republican-led states the green light to try to create as many seats friendly to their side as possible ahead of next year’s midterms. It also undercuts the US Department of Justice’s push to throw out California’s map producing up to five new Democratic-friendly seats, legal experts said.

“It’s going to be an uphill battle for the Department of Justice in California after this decision,” said Derek Muller, a law professor at the University o