Rep. Blake Moore recently spoke out against the outrageously undemocratic redistricting plan in Texas, calling it “a step too far.” I laud him for that, especially considering how all other Utah representatives and senators are praising Texas’ high-handed efforts to disenfranchise Democratic voters.

However, I would like to ask Moore just how the Texas plan differs in principle from Utah’s own fairly recent redistricting scheme, whose only goal was to ensure that no Democrats could win a seat in Congress and to greatly dilute the Democrats’ power in the state Legislature.

One difference is indeed that Utah did not attempt to redraw their maps mid-term in order to influence an immediately upcoming election, as Texas is doing. However, Utah Republicans showed their lack of concern for demo

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