The Texas legislature’s unorthodox move to redraw its Congressional seats in an attempt to squeeze out more juice for Republicans in the 2026 elections – five years before their State Constitution allows them to do so — takes the country back to the bad-old-days of redistricting. If the Texas courts don’t step in to fix it, federal courts should intervene to protect the integrity of our federal elections.

Two landmark U.S. Supreme Court decisions during the 1960’s — Baker v. Carr and Reynolds v. Sims — addressed rampant redistricting abuses by states and declared them unconstitutional. Many states were intentionally ignoring their state constitutions that required them to redistrict every ten years, simply to gain political advantage.

This led to gross disparities in population among dis

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