Speaker Johnson vows to fight California Democrats' 'illegal power grab'

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49. Let's be real, both parties have done that.

It's an inconvenient truth, but it IS the truth. Loooking at the congressional district maps of my state, I'd be as hypocritical as Johnson to claim otherwise. (My district looks like a snake with an oversized head at each end, lol. And some of the others are much worse!) I don't love it, but that's how the game is played, by both sides, and it's not changing any time soon.

The reason Texas's plans are so outrageous is that those maps are based on census data and are therefore customarily drawn after each census, not halfway in between the last census and the next one. Of course Johnson has no problem at all with a red state doing that, but is screaming like a stuck pig about Newsom saying both sides can play at that game. That's where the hypocrisy comes in: he thinks it's fine for HIS side to change the rules in the middle of the game but for Dems to do the same thing is *GASP* heresy!

However, when it comes to drawing ongressional district maps in such a way that one party is favored over the other, neither side has squeaky clean hands, at least not in every state, and it's disingenuous to claim otherwise.