• WoodScientist@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Texas wants to make their vote based on land rather than population so that dense urban centers can be disenfranchised.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_v._Sims

    That’s not far fetched at all. It was only in 1964 that SCOTUS ruled that state legislatures had to use districts of approximately equal population. Other forms of districting were ruled to violate the Equal Protection Clause. It wouldn’t even be that hard for today’s SCOTUS to strike this down, as the Equal Protection Clause, due to its generic language, tends to provide the weakest protection of any constitutional protection.