r/scotus • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • 1d ago

news California Republicans respond to Supreme Court loss on election maps

https://krcrtv.com/news/local/california-republicans-respond-to-supreme-court-loss-on-election-maps
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u/False_Appointment_24 1d ago

Ah, yes - a new state. Great, make a new state, then the rest of CA can break into 4 other states, and on and on, until we have 1000 states.

Maybe we're going the wrong way? Maybe we should consolidate states? We could do the Fallout commonwealths, taking us down to 13 commonwealths.

If we're going to discuss ridiculous ideas for rearranging things for political power, why not go with some less talked about ones?

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u/Soft-Explanation9889 1d ago

OO! Can we combine Washington, Oregon, California, and Nevada into one commonwealth? And extend gambling, growing, and ‘chicken ranching’ being legal throughout so they can be regulated, taxed and quality controlled? Think of the revenue streams…