Texas' rigged map hits the rocks

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Texas' rigged map hits the rocks - Dailykos

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Or, more to the point, what’s bad for the goose is very bad for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s gerrymander. 

Abbott and his fellow Republican lawmakers are probably currently digesting this 160-page mic drop from the United States District Court in El Paso. Turns out that Texas’ attempt to rig elections with a mid-decade redistricting turned out to be a racial gerrymander. Which, it turns out, is still illegal! Even for Texas! Who knew?

Tuesday’s ruling throws out the 2026 congressional maps that Texas Republicans pushed through to preserve their slender majority in the House of Representatives at the behest of ... Donald Trump.

Hey, if you can’t win over voters with your policies, you’re going to have to go with these sorts of shenanigans, designed to dilute or entirely suppress the votes of people who tend to vote for Democrats, because we can’t have that.