SCOTUS heard arguments this week in favor of creating Congressional districts that are predisposed to get specified, predetermined results in elections. Those aren’t my words, they are actually the words (paraphrased) of Justice Sotomayor. She pressed the need to districts that are purposely designed to have a majority of black voters, because in her words: “white voters won’t vote for black candidates.”
Nevermind that white voters elected a black President. No, what she is saying is that democratic processes must be rigged so that the results favor one particular political minority (in the democratic, not racial sense). The Democrats are simply illustrating that they are NOT in favor of Democracy. They are in favor of power, and they know blacks overwhelmingly vote for Democrats.
There are 26 congressional districts where blacks are the majority, and a further 14 districts where they are the plurality. That is, they are the largest demographic, even though they are not the majority.
GA-02 — 49.3% Black (Rep. Sanford Bishop).
NY-09 — 48.9% Black (Rep. Yvette Clarke).
AL-02 — 48.7% Black (Rep. Shomari Figures).
IL-02 — 48.4% Black (Rep. Robin Kelly).
NY-08 — 48.2% Black (Rep. Hakeem Jeffries).
NY-05 — 47.2% Black (Rep. Gregory Meeks).
SC-06 — 46.9% Black (Rep. Jim Clyburn).
MI-13 — 46.9% Black (Rep. Shri Thanedar).
MO-01 — 45.4% Black (Rep. Wesley Bell).
VA-03 — 45.4% Black (Rep. Bobby Scott).
IL-07 — 43.0% Black (Rep. Danny Davis).
FL-24 — 42.2% Black (Rep. Frederica Wilson).
TX-30 — 41.9% Black (Rep. Jasmine Crockett).
TX-09 — 38.6% Black (Rep. Al Green).
Assuming that Sotomayor is correct, blacks are guaranteed 40 congressional seats, making skin color the single most important factor in electing representatives.
How many other demographics get that privilege? The fact is that she is admitting blacks only vote on skin color and not for the candidate that best represents their interests. What Sotomayor is saying is elections are only valid if the electorate votes the way that they want you to. How about this- we go back to the original ratios from the nation’s founding? It’s time to get rid of the artificial limit of 435 Representatives that dilutes the power of the people.
Each state gets at least one Representative. No single Representative can represent more than 100,000 people. That would mean 3,380 representatives, give or take. I would even say Washington DC and other territories should have voting representatives under this plan. If it’s done like this, the number of representatives would range from 394 for California. Texas would get 313, Florida 234, Georgia 112, New York 199, and so on.
The lesser populated states would see similar numbers- Hawaii would have 15. Alaska 8, Wyoming 6, Vermont would have 7, Maine would get 14.
We could even allow representation for territories- Puerto Rico would get 32, Guam would get 2, the US Virgin Islands would get 1, Samoa 1, the Mariana Islands 1, Washington, DC gets 8.
It would be much more difficult to arrange factions to game the system, and each representative would be more likely to actually represent the interests of their constituents instead of party leadership. That’s a feature and not a bug. Congress can meet in a domed stadium. We can build them for concerts and sporting events, we can surely do the same for a legislative body.
Of course this creates a large amount of power in the most populous states. That’s why the Senate exists- to represent the states. Each state (not territory or DC) gets 2 Senators, just as they always have.
3 Comments
Honk Honk · October 17, 2025 at 6:14 am
The wise Latina will help build the New Man workers utopia?
SiG · October 17, 2025 at 7:27 am
The downside, of course, is that it’s pretty much eight times the number of congress critters, which requires vastly expanding D.C., either making the House of Representatives eight stories high or putting in more buildings. That means every road has to be modified to handle more traffic, and making them wider seems to be the only way to do that, which means there’s less room for the bigger buildings. Plus, that’ll pretty quickly turn into eight times the number of lobbyists and lobbying organizations. It would take years to do this, maybe a couple of decades, and the best thing to do would be to freeze spending so that they couldn’t immediately vote themselves pay raises, which seems to be the thing they do most reliably.
I’ve seen people recommend we move DC out of DC, so to speak. Build a new capital somewhere far from the current crowded areas, like maybe lightly populated section of Wyoming. That would sure go faster than expanding the current hell hole.
Divemedic · October 17, 2025 at 7:42 am
They could simply vote electronically or hold sessions at the Capitol One arena.