There’s not any doubt who started the ongoing bipartisan gerrymandering competition: Donald Trump , with his successful lobbying of Texas Republicans to conduct a rare mid-decade redistricting measure aimed at giving the GOP up to five new House seats. And it’s equally clear that in designing a new House map for California that voters approved overwhelmingly as Prop 50 , Golden State Democrats were trying to counter what Texas had done and that Trump was encouraging other Republican-controlled states to do. It was mentioned in virtually every piece of literature promoting Prop 50 and in virtually every ad.

So it feels a bit disingenuous that Trump’s Justice Department, joining a lawsuit earlier filed by California Republicans , is suing to invalidate Prop 50 on grounds that it’s a

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