Lame. Fact is both major parties gerrymander up the ying yang wherever possible at the beginning of the decade, right after the census. No doubt about that. What’s new here, one can say precedence setting is redistricting, gerrymandering in the middle of the decade, mid-census by Texas for purely partisan reasons of attempting to gain 5 additional GOP seats. There’s no doubt Texas following Trump’s orders to redraw their districts are in the wrong. Again, no doubt about that either.
Clueless dimwit Eileen Cannon is about as inept and corrupt as possible.
Marc Elias won every one of 60 plus election suits in the 2020 election fraud Trump lie. The man is the best election lawyer in America. Odds are he wins this one to.
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Although I’m against all forms of gerrymandering, gerrymandering is congress critters choosing their voters instead of the voters choosing their congress critters. I realize gerrymandering is a fact of life in our political system. It is done after ever census, at the beginning of each decade. What I’m opposed to is this mid-decade, mid-census redrawing of districts, gerrymandering. Had Texas done this back in 2021, I would say normal and agree with you. Doing so mid-decade, mid-census is wrong and beyond the pale of normal partisan political gerrymandering. For me that is totally unacceptable and borders on the unethical and over the line of normal partisan politics.Here's an opinion piece which points out the origination of gerrymandering, who started it, and how the name came to be:
Democrats created gerrymandering—they must own it
The myth about Republicans’ role in disenfranchising minorities through gerrymandering is a shell game from the Democrats’ ongoing efforts to cling onto political power.
"The word “gerrymander” originated when the Boston Gazette published a political cartoon depicting a newly drawn serpent-like district in Massachusetts by Jeffersonian Republicans, formally known today as the Democrat Party. The man who signed off on this politicalized map (although admittedly reluctant) was the then governor of the commonwealth and future fifth vice president of the United States, a man by the name Eldridge Gerry. Oppositionists in the press quickly reacted and labeled the political move “The Gerry Mander,” a play on the governor’s last name and the shape of the newly created district that resembled a salamander. This name lives on till this day."
Isn't your position that gerrymandering is good when Republicans do it, but bad when Democrats do it?