Judge Dumps Cold Water on Trump’s Texas Gerrymandering Scheme
Government
A federal judge has thrown out Texas’s gerrymandered congressional maps. Judge Jeffrey V. Brown ruled Tuesday that the Lone Star State must return to its 2021 maps for the 2026 election, writing that “substantial evidence” proved Texas had “racially gerrymandered” its latest districts. Congressional maps are typically redrawn every 10 years, after new census data is released. But Texas’s decision to do so in the middle of the decade—at Donald Trump’s direction—raised alarm. Trump had suggested
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