The Great Relocation Part 2: Courts, Census, and the Repricing of Political Power

[Luis Gonzalez]

The Great Relocation Part 2: Courts, Census, and the Repricing of Political Power

The legal and demographic machinery that converts population movement into shifts in federal power inside a fixed 435-seat system

The Last Wire

The map isn’t just shifting. It’s being repriced.

We tend to think political power moves with people. It doesn’t. 
It moves when systems decide those people count—and how much.

Part 2 of The Great Relocation digs into the machinery most coverage ignores:

• Courts are pulling back, raising the bar for when they’ll intervene in redistricting fights
• The Census doesn’t just count population—it defines representation, inclusion, and exclusion
• District maps don’t reflect movement—they translate it, often unevenly, into political advantage

Put those together and you don’t get a neutral system—you get a filter.

Migration changes where people live. 
But apportionment rules decide where power lands.

That gap is where influence is quietly redistributed—state by state, district by district—without a single vote being cast.

If current trends hold, some states will gain more than population. Others will lose more than numbers.

The question isn’t who is moving. 
It’s who benefits from how movement is counted.

— Gonzo

Read the full piece breakdown at The Last Wire.

[Cyber Liberty]

Another great article!  I wish I could write like you!

This illustrates how important reapportionment is.  We on the right are negatively impacted by the current rule of counting illegal aliens in the Census.  We are apportioning seats to Districts with a lot of people who aren't supposed to vote, which concentrates power into fewer hands.  This must change! 

In the early 80's, the SCOTUS ruled that illegal aliens must be counted in the Census, and it will require being overturned by the SCOTUS.  It is far from certain that they will do so!

[Luis Gonzalez]

Another great article!  I wish I could write like you!

This illustrates how important reapportionment is.  We on the right are negatively impacted by the current rule of counting illegal aliens in the Census.  We are apportioning seats to Districts with a lot of people who aren't supposed to vote, which concentrates power into fewer hands.  This must change! 

In the early 80's, the SCOTUS ruled that illegal aliens must be counted in the Census, and it will require being overturned by the SCOTUS.  It is far from certain that they will do so!

I fully believe that the Court may split the baby.

Count everyone, but only use citizens when calculating congressional apportionments. 

[Cyber Liberty]

I fully believe that the Court may split the baby.

Count everyone, but only use citizens when calculating congressional apportionments. 

That would be better than what we have, but would still mean pumping welfare into the pockets of illegal aliens (and the bureaucrats who serve them).  It would require identifying the illegals during the Census, and I can imagine chicanery by Democrats in that process.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Another great article!  I wish I could write like you!

I wish I had a life, instead of so much time to write! 🤣

I’ve developed some annoying health issues since the heart surgery, that I’m still fighting right now.

My labs all come back solid green, my ticker is pumping at the level of a man WAY younger than me, as are my liver and kidneys and I am not even a diabetic any more.

But I can’t eat anything that I used to be able to eat.

My doctor told me to eat boiled chicken breast, mash potatoes and cut the coffee out.

That was a death sentence to me.

I don’t know if it’s nervous energy, or anger that makes me spend all day doing this

I do enjoy it, however. 😁

If I get a hold of some buffalo wings, there won’t be a Last Wire tomorrow. 🦬🪽

[Luis Gonzalez]

That would be better than what we have, but would still mean pumping welfare into the pockets of illegal aliens (and the bureaucrats who serve them).  It would require identifying the illegals during the Census, and I can imagine chicanery by Democrats in that process.

I believe that can be handled simultaneously.

[Cyber Liberty]

I believe that can be handled simultaneously.

Then let's hope the Roberts Court chooses wisely!  (Stop laughing!)

I am sorry about the no-coffee rule!  That sucks!  I'll be fine if we miss a Last Wire if it means you can grab some decent wings....

[Luis Gonzalez]

I wish I had a life, instead of so much time to write! 🤣

I’ve developed some annoying health issues since the heart surgery, that I’m still fighting right now.

My labs all come back solid green, my ticker is pumping at the level of a man WAY younger than me, as are my liver and kidneys and I am not even a diabetic any more.

But I can’t eat anything that I used to be able to eat.

My doctor told me to eat boiled chicken breast, mash potatoes and cut the coffee out.

That was a death sentence to me.

I don’t know if it’s nervous energy, or anger that makes me spend all day doing this

I do enjoy it, however. 😁

If I get a hold of some buffalo wings, there won’t be a Last Wire tomorrow. 🦬🪽

Back in the old days at TOS, some kind lady set up a Banana Republican homepage, and challenged me to get one essay out a week, so I went for it.

It took a week to do one back then.

Sometimes I had to stay up half the night to meet my deadline.

Now one app corrects spelling, punctuation and all kinds of errors, as I write. When I go back over the older stuff in Boiling Frogs (2008) I am embarrassed at how amateurish they appear; the grammar, spelling, whole English-as-a-second-language thing.

I have cut research time from hours to minutes, I have software that formats whatever I write, to whatever medium I want to use to publish, and I’ve figured out how to make my own images.

It’s my ideas that I want to get through, and those are bouncing around my bored brain all day long. So, I’ll take whatever assistance I can get sounding and reading less like some newly-arrived hick from western Cuba. 🤣

[Luis Gonzalez]

PS. Totally unrelated, but WTF🤷🏻‍♂️

This July I am celebrating the 50th Anniversary of my naturalization.

I’m hearing POTUS is throwing a huge party celebrating it!🤣

I hope you guys can celebrate with me.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Is it a coincidence that the reddest states (losing influence) on the map are also Sanctuary States - Mass, CT, RI, NY, IL, CA, NJ?

The Great Replacement is less conspiracy theory and more Dem strategy for 2030 Census and Re-apportionment.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Is it a coincidence that the reddest states (losing influence) on the map are also Sanctuary States - Mass, CT, RI, NY, IL, CA, NJ?

The Great Replacement is less conspiracy theory and more Dem strategy for 2030 Census and Re-apportionment.

Trump will fight them to the end on that.

Which is why they are trying to kill him so desperately.

[DCPatriot]

PS. Totally unrelated, but WTF🤷🏻‍♂️

This July I am celebrating the 50th Anniversary of my naturalization.

I’m hearing POTUS is throwing a huge party celebrating it!🤣

I hope you guys can celebrate with me.

    

[andy58-in-nh]

PS. Totally unrelated, but WTF🤷🏻‍♂️

This July I am celebrating the 50th Anniversary of my naturalization.

I’m hearing POTUS is throwing a huge party celebrating it!🤣

I hope you guys can celebrate with me.

50 for you.
250 for America.
Wishing you another 50.