Government is a contract. The voters give their elected officials the right to make laws, give orders, even take away people’s liberty, but only under a strict set of laws, conditions and boundaries that govern those elected persons’ abilities and actions. Corruption of that system doesn’t just hurt the individuals directly affected; it strikes at the rule of law and the very structure of society upon which that law is built.

When the president of the United States tells a state legislature to knowingly manipulate the system so that his party can hold onto power, it communicates two things: First, that the president knows his actions have run contrary to what the voters want. And second, that he does not care.

What started in Texas as a crass exercise in gerrymandering to avoid the elect

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