Leftist Hypocrisy and Texas Gerrymandering

By Rich Kozlovich 

It's been interesting to watch the "Party of the Extreme" rant and rail at Republicans for doing what they've been doing for most of my adult life, gerrymander in order to get more Democrats elected than rightly should be elected, mostly based on race, and with approval of the courts based on the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was on a collision course with the Constitution, and SCOTUS partially gutted in 2012 with their Shelby County v. Holder decision noting that: 

Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. delivered the opinion of the 5-4 majority. The Court held that Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act imposes current burdens that are no longer responsive to the current conditions in the voting districts in question. Although the constraints this section places on specific states made sense in the 1960s and 1970s, they do not any longer and now represent an unconstitutional violation of the power to regulate elections that the Constitution reserves for the states. The Court also held that the formula for determining whether changes to a state's voting procedure should be federally reviewed is now outdated and does not reflect the changes that have occurred in the last 50 years in narrowing the voting turnout gap in the states in question.

The fact is Title VI of the Civil Rights Act targets "intentional" racial discrimination, not "neutral policies untainted by racial intent that happen to lead to racially disproportionate outcomes," ....."There’s a big difference between prohibiting racial discrimination and endorsing disparate impact theory. ... It’s the difference between securing equality of opportunity regardless of race and guaranteeing equality of outcome based on race. It’s the difference between color blindness and critical race theory........."  

So much for Eric Holder's claim Texas' map is in violation of the Voting Right Act, and as for Obama, he's against gerrymandering, but only when it's not to his party's advantage.  

The Party of Extreme is never at a loss for hypocrisy and extremist rants.  Take Texas State Representative, Jolanda Jones.... who fled the state... compares this redistricting effort to the Holocaust.

The Democrats have fled the state in order to prevent a quorum, thus preventing a vote on redistricting.  Texas has faced this before and beat them, and Governor Abbot's not going to have it this time either.  His options are to issue warrants for their arrest forcing them back to vote, remove them from office, and in the past he stopped paying them, and even fining them $500 dollars a day.  

 Abbot calls their flight Dereliction of Duty, noting that:

In any other field, military, law enforcement, or medicine, willful abandonment of one’s duties in a time of need is not tolerated. In fact, it’s punished. If a firefighter left his station during a five-alarm blaze, the firefighter would be discharged. If a soldier abandoned his post during battle, he would be court-martialed, with two returning in fear of losing their seats.  Texas Attorney General Paxton announced on Tuesday he was seeking "judicial orders declaring that state Democrats who do not return to the legislature by the state House speaker's deadline have vacated their offices.

Abbot has enlisted the aid of FBI director Kash Patel to track down these misfits in order to have them extradited, but they've fled to states where Governors are harboring them, and that makes it unlikely extradition will happen.   

By the way, did anyone think to ask who's paying for all this?  Well, it turns out it is the man who can't seem to get elected to any office in Texas, Beto O'Rourke through his PAC  fund!  It also turns out that's quite possibly illegal, so he and his Democrat pals could face criminal charges.  

Lawmakers who flee Texas to prevent the state legislature from having enough members to pass laws are subject to $500-a-day fines under Texas house rules, which also prevent walkout participants from soliciting political contributions to pay those fines. Republican governor Greg Abbott has said that “any other person who ‘offers, confers, or agrees to confer'” such contributions to the “fleeing Democrat House members” may be in violation of state bribery laws.

Governor Pritzker of Illinois says Texas is ‘trying to steal’ seats, which is rich since Illinois is one of most gerrymandered states in America. This is the map they drew to "insure diversity", meaning less Republicans in Congress.

The state’s new gerrymandered congressional map seems hell-bent on making Republican congressmen from Illinois an endangered species.  Five Republicans are in Illinois’s U.S. House delegation, but that was apparently too many for the Democrats, who were in charge of Illinois redistricting last fall. They drew a map that packed all five Republicans into just three congressional districts.

 The Democrats are going nuclear over this and want to gerrymander their states to make sure more Democrats are elected, which should be interesting as their states are already so heavily gerrymandered it might be impossible to make it any worse, and Massachusetts is one of them.  In a state with over seven million people there's not not Republican representing them in the House of Representatives.  The fact is Democrats are tapped out with not enough states to gerrymander in their favor, and with declining populations they're being drained of support.  Which is why they're freaking out since in five years the new census will also drain these states of seats in the House of Representatives.  

States considering redistricting are Texas, with 5 seats going Republican, Florida with  3-5 seats going Republican,  Ohio with 2 seats going Republican, but the Ohio Supreme Court has interfered over an over again in the past in favor of Democrats, so that remains to be seen.  Indiana with 1-2 seats Republican,  Missouri with one 1 seat Republican, and California with 5 seats going Democrat, and New York is wanting to change the State's Constitution to authorize a new map to gerrymander the way their state is supposed to be gerrymandered.  Less Republicans and more Democrats.  

The Democrat's goal is to retake the House and grind Trump's initiatives into the ground and impeach him again...and again... and again.  However, gerrymandering may be the least of the Democrat's problems, as now lawsuits are proceeding against California and Illinois over corrupted voter rolls.

Federal courts have allowed two lawsuits to proceed against California and Illinois to force them to clean up their voter rolls. Democrats have been engaging in election fraud for well over a century and a half, but I don’t think any of us understood the extent of the election integrity problem in our day until the last few election cycles. One aspect of potential fraud is the presence of 'dirty names' on voter rolls—individuals who are not legally allowed to be there, whether because they are illegal aliens, deceased, or disqualified for other reasons. Those are the names Judicial Watch and two other organizations are suing to remove in two deep blue states.

If these suits are successful expect to see a lot more of them.  

But hey, why worry, be happy, Paul Begala assures Democrats they will win massively with a “40-seat landslide" in the Midterms.   I've met Begala, nice man, and very bright, which must mean he no more believes that than the man in the moon.  

Updates:   

Governor Abbott's Resolve Has the Backing of History - Gov. Abbot's actions, backed by history’s precedent, will ensure the redistricting vote happens, the maps are drawn, and Texas’ voice rings true in Washington.

Gerrymandering is as American as apple pie - Over the past few days, the mainstream media has gone bonkers as Texas seeks to redraw its congressional map. Likewise, Democratic politicians from across the nation are calling the pending redistricting a “threat to democracy.” Some have even it compared it to the Third Reich’s Holocaust! Obviously, this is way beyond the pale.......

 I guess Jolanda don’t know much about history - Who knew that we'd be talking so much about the Nazis these days? The Democrats are like the vending machine that pops a "Nazi" talking point every time they have something to criticize about President Trump......

HUGE: Trump Orders a New Census - "I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate CENSUS based on modern day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024. People who are in our Country illegally WILL NOT BE COUNTED IN THE CENSUS. Thank you for your attention to this matter!" Trump posted on Truth Social Thursday.  The 2020 Census was alarmingly inaccurate, resulting in faulty congressional representation in Washington D.C. From the Heritage Foundation: ...........

 Texas AG Launches Investigation into Beto O’Rourke’s Political Groups Financial Support of Quorum-Breaking Democrats - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the investigation into whether Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke’s political group’s contributions to the House Democratic Caucus members are breaking the law. The investigation could lead to bribery charges if the State can prove the group is paying legislators not to exercise their vote on the measure to redistrict Texas’s congressional seats...............

NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Launches Investigation into a George Soros-Funded PAC for Illegally Funding Runaway Dems - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton may have uncovered one of the parties responsible for helping Texas Democrats flee the state on Sunday to stop mid-term redistricting.  On Thursday, Paxton issued a press release revealing that he is investigating the Texas Majority PAC (TMP), a George Soros-funded PAC, for illegally funding its activities. How unsurprising to learn that the most notorious Democrat funder almost certainly has his fingerprints all over this stunt.  “I’ve just launched an investigation into a Soros-funded PAC for unlawfully funding runaway Democrats,” Paxton wrote on X. “If Texas lawmakers are bowing to the Soros Slush Fund rather than the will of the voters, Texans deserve to know.”.....