President Trump’s political team is encouraging Republican leaders in Texas to examine how House district lines in the state could be redrawn ahead of next year’s midterm elections to try to save the party’s endangered majority, according to people in Texas and Washington who are familiar with the effort.
Gerrymandering is one of those not-talked-about-enough legal undermining of democracy commited by mostly* Republicans.
* are there any examples of Democrat gerrymandering? Or statistics, though I’m sure Reps do it much much more?
I may be remembering incorrectly, but after the 2019 Supreme Court ruling that federal courts can’t address partisan gerrymandering, a couple of blue states (New York and Illinois maybe?) tried doing some gerrymanders after the 2020 census. Then their state courts struck them down.
Several blue states – I think Washington and Oregon are among them – created non-partisan redistricting commissions before 2019, so they can’t be gerrymandered.
As is typical, the blue states end up doing the thing that’s right; the red states just keep doing the thing that wins.
Thanks.