In the coming weeks, you may hear state leaders tell you why the Texas Legislature is meeting for a special session in Austin, but don’t get it twisted. The Lege is convening this week, after having settled its regular business in May, for one and only one reason: to accomplish congressional redistricting. The seventeen other items on Governor Greg Abbott’s “call” for the special session, which he’s been carefully assembling for more than a month, are best seen as camouflage for obscuring that fact.In June, The New York Times reported that the Trump administration had asked Texas lawmakers to gerrymander the state’s maps in an attempt to change our congressional delegation from one with 25 Republicans and 13 Democrats to one with 30 Republicans and…
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