WASHINGTON — “The enumeration in the Constitution of

certain rights shall not be construed to deny

or disparage others retained by the people.”

— Ninth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

When the Texas legislature decided to engage in the reapportionment of congressional districts in the middle of this summer — having just done so in 2020, in response to the nationwide census that year — the Democrats in the lower house decided that the only way to prevent this was to leave the state and thereby deny the legislature the two-thirds quorum needed in order to enact legislation.

Stated differently, President Donald Trump — fearful of a Democratic House in 2027 — asked Texas officials to realign the state’s congressional districts so as to make it more likely that additional Republicans wo

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