It started with a simple request, inasmuch as a simple request can upend constitutional principles and electoral freedoms across the country: President Trump demanding five more GOP-drawn districts in Texas. In response, two blue states, California and Virginia, redrew their congressional maps, adding more Democratic seats to create a stalemate in a newly emboldened, hyper-partisan gerrymandering war.
And then the Supreme Court’s conservative majority dropped a bombshell, obliterating the rationale for majority-minority congressional districts that have been the bedrock of the country’s efforts to right the wrongs of the past with the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.
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