John Roberts - in Rucho v. Common Cause (2019) - created the mess which has immunized Texas from reconfiguring disricts to drive Democrats from even proximity to power. This is not a good way to run a railroad. Of course southern racists invented the problem - first slavery, then the "white primary", And a host of anti-democratic measures - electoral maps to suppress the Black vote, mainly.
But California's retaliatory plan is a desperation move made because John Roberts gave Texas Republicans license to create grossly unfair legislative maps in Rucho, supra.
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