Not true. Democrats will lose so many seats with the redistricting that they can't make up for it at the polls. I say politically it's brilliant.
Gerrymandering however is a shame and is broken. It ain't just in Texas. In every state, when one party gets enough of a majority, it redraws the districts. This wastes our tax dollars just as surely as congressional junkets. Plus, in no less than three very convoluted cases, the Supreme Court has developed a line of jurisprudence on gerrymandering that is often cited as the dumbest string of meaningless conditions and "tests" in the law.
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