Texas Redistricting Breaks The Democratic Party

By I & I Editorial Board August 8, 2025 

Consider what has transpired in the past few weeks and ask yourself which political party is acting like petulant children. Earlier this year, the Justice Department found that four Texas districts drawn in 2021 are “unconstitutionally racially biased” because they violate the equal protection clause and “must be rectified immediately.”

Hans von Spakovsky, an election law expert at the Heritage Foundation, notes that not only did those Texas districts violate the Constitution, but the boundaries they drew in 2021 were based on faulty 2020 Census data, which had missed half a million Texans, and didn’t reflect the influx of 2 million people over the past five years.  So, the state redrew districts to pass constitutional muster and reflect the reality of Texas’ population, which, because it ends up creating more Republican-favored districts, sparked an unhinged national outrage.............The reason they are acting this way is that – after decades of being coddled by the media, entertainers, academia, and rich benefactors – they suddenly find themselves on the losing end of political winds sweeping the nation. And, like spoiled children who’d had their toys taken away, they can’t cope................ To Read More....

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