In blocking Texas from using its new congressional maps, a federal judicial panel painstakingly discredited Republican arguments that race wasn’t the primary driver of the 2025 redistricting.

Truth be told, Republicans made it easy for the panel, so sloppy was their handiwork.

As you’ll recall, news reports emerged this summer that President Donald Trump was pressing Texas and other red states to redistrict and create more Republican seats in Congress. But the optics were bad, even by today’s standards. Suddenly, a clumsy Department of Justice letter accused GOP-led Texas of impermissibly using race to draw its 2021 congressional maps.

In virtually the same breath, Texas Republicans denied having done that but said that they would, of course, fix the maps.

First they broke up multiple

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