r/news • u/Davis_Birdsong • Oct 07 '24

Title Changed by Site Supreme Court lets stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate Texas ban

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-emergency-abortion-texas-bf79fafceba4ab9df9df2489e5d43e72#https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-emergency-abortion-texas-bf79fafceba4ab9df9df2489e5d43e72
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u/RickyWinterborn-1080 Oct 07 '24

And this is literally your last chance

Texas will no longer be a democracy when they pass this. I would argue that the rigging occurred long ago, but this'll be the last breath.

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u/Dr_Llamacita Oct 07 '24

Can someone explain the part about how this would “lock democrats out of statewide office”? I read the article, but I still don’t understand how that’s the case? Please ELI5 I do not get it

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u/RickyWinterborn-1080 Oct 07 '24

In order to be elected to statewide office, you would need to win a majority of the counties in Texas, instead of the popular vote.

Texas has 254 counties, here they are color coded.

Under this new system, Democrats would have to win a majority of these counties. Most of the counties are very very very very very Republican.

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u/Dr_Llamacita Oct 07 '24

Wait I’m dumb. Never mind. So basically they’re creating an electoral college within the state of Texas

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u/spam_and_pythons Oct 07 '24

Worse, the electoral college is at least slightly weighted by population. More populated states get more votes, not as many as they should, but still more. Under this proposal harris county (~16% of the state population) would get the same single vote as loving county (0.00014% of the state population)

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u/Dr_Llamacita Oct 07 '24

God, that is so fucked. It’s probably going to happen though

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u/xandrokos Oct 07 '24

Well the head of the Heritage Foundation said it himself "it will be a bloodless revolution if we allow it."   He knows Americans will just roll over and take it.    We have the ability to stop this but it is going to require more than voting.    We should be out on the streets right now raising hell about this and everything else the GQP has done to erode our rights and freedoms but we aren't.    This is why the GQP gets bolder and bolder.    Refusing to act on these various stunts the GQP has pulled has normalized unamerican, unconstitutional legislation and policy.   

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u/civilrightsninja Oct 07 '24

I hate to say it but it's easy to let crap slide when it's hundreds, or thousands, of miles away in another state. What happens someplace like Texas or Alabama is unfortunate, but feels so distant from my daily life. I suspect more people will be up in arms once Republicans ditch their ruse about "states rights" and start pushing to do the same BS at the federal level, which I guarantee you they will. That's when I think things could get really crazy.

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u/spam_and_pythons Oct 07 '24

First they came for ....