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Texas lawmakers pass new congressional maps bolstering GOP

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By ACACIA CORONADO and PAUL J. WEBER

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Dems can just allow more migrants to counteract this gerrymandering. Which is anyway common across the US and works both ways.

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Republican state Sen. Joan Huffman, who authored the maps and leads the Senate Redistricting Committee, told fellow lawmakers that they were “drawn blind to race.”

Hispanic voters tend to vote for Democrats. The Texas GOP redraws the districts to disadvantage Democrats. So even though Sen. Joan Huffman can claim that the GOP is not discriminating directly against minorities, they are using statistics about minorities' voting tendencies to win an unfair advantage.

So she's being disingenuous at best.

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I'm all for nonpartisan commissions to draw electoral maps. Some states (such as Michigan, California, Idaho, Colorado, Washington, etc.) do this already. It's a healthier way.

What do our Republican friends think of this idea? Are you in favor of nonpartisan commissions?

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The final respites of the lesser-educated white voter (The only solid GOP demographic in the States at the moment): gerrymandering and voter suppression laws to keep them in power when demographics cannot.

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Good! Blue states such as Illinois are doing the same thing.

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“Illinois Democrats agonize over how much to gerrymander”

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/17/illinois-democrats-redistricting-map-516135

also:

“Illinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger (R-16th) is one of five Republicans at risk of losing their job as new Democrat-drawn congressional maps are set to be revealed next week.”

great!

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Good! Blue states such as Illinois are doing the same thing.

Wouldn't it be better for democracy if nobody did this gerrymandering? I'm for nonpartisan commissions. What about you?

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Yes that would be fine. However:

Congressional Democrats say they want to put an end to this, but the voting rights bill they passed last month didn’t touch it. Instead, the measure would have required states with a history of other forms of voter suppression to get “preclearance” from the U.S. Department of Justice before changing their election rules. 

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-09-07/note-to-democrats-gerrymandering-is-voter-suppression-too

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Yes that would be fine. However:

Yes, and however Texas and other GOP gerrymanders.

I believe that a bipartisan effort is needed to make the redistricting process less partisan.

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Why do Trump people (starting with Texas) want to ban abortions? Why is this policy so important to them?

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Yes, and however Texas and other GOP gerrymanders.

Democrats in Congress can pass a bill. They control all branches of government. They didnt include this in their legislation.

Instead they spend their time redistricting their Trump hating ally Adam Kinzinger right out of a job. if that isnt hilarious and incompetent I dont know what is.

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Good! Blue states such as Illinois are doing the same thing.

"I love it when democracy is usurped" - a law and order Republican.

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Why do Trump people (starting with Texas) want to ban abortions? Why is this policy so important to them?

Controlling women's sexuality is of vital importance to the right.

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Controlling women's sexuality is of vital importance to the right.

Trump people should support abortion since aborted fetuses will automatically go to heaven, that that is what evangelical Kenneth Copeland (with a private jet) type Trump people believe in. Then it's not about the saving the baby, it's about controlling women. How cruel. They want to bad abortions 100% and no exceptions.

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