State Senator Dan Laughlin recently compared Texas Republicans’ current mid-census gerrymander to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s 2018 decision in League of Women Voters v. Commonwealth, which ended partisan gerrymandering in Pennsylvania (“Let the parties redraw the congressional map,” Aug. 29). That comparison is wrong.

In 2011, Republicans engineered a congressional map as part of “Project REDMAP,” a national plan to guarantee a Republican advantage. They created a map with contorted and nonsensical districts that numerous experts testified ignored all of the appropriate criteria for redistricting — compactness, preserving counties and municipalities, and so on — in favor of obtaining a Republican advantage.

The map made sure that even though Pennsylvania voters were roughly evenly s

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