On January 14, a 3-judge U.S. District Court refused to enjoin the new California U.S. House district boundaries. Tangipa v Newsom, c.d., 2:25cv-10616.
The vote was 2-1. Judge Josephine Seaton, an Obama appointee, wrote the decision. The decision is also signed by Judge Wesley Hsu, a Biden appointee. Judge Kenneth K. Lee, a Trump appointee, dissented. Here is the decision. The majority wrote 70 pages, and the dissent occupies 47 pages.
3 judge fed ct >>>
direct appeal to SCOTUS
>>> another *emergency* case
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=153846
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PR IN ALL LEGIS ELECTIONS
If state legislators can reallocate voters by redistricting before an election they can also reallocate voters by redistricting after and election to steal the constituency that elected a representative.
The remedy for punitive partisan manipulation of voters is self-districting. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4328642
The remedy is breaking up large nation and state governments into countries that are small enough to not need multiple districts. Micronations are the way to go.
The other big problem is making political government so central to so many aspects of social and economic life as we have. It actually has an extremely limited legitimate role – defense of society from violent crime, property theft / robbery, and fraud (even the last one is mostly best addressed through economic and civil arbitration means) and defense of the nation from external invasion, and arguably even those problems can be solved without territorial monopoly government.
If government is held to its proper role, there’s far less incentives for gerrymandering, election fraud, and all the rest of the political gaming.
@DFR,
Have you looked how this work in a state, for example, like Oklahoma?
Oklahoma is way too big to be an optimal country or state.