Gerrymandering looks like a worse and worse bet for GOP

U.S. gerrymandering duel escalates

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. A federal court struck down Texas’ new gerrymander on Tuesday, in an extraordinary rebuke to Republicans who sought to hand the GOP five additional seats in the House of…

Gerrymandering looks like a worse and worse bet for GOP

It is certainly still too soon to say what the effects of a spasm of mid-decade gerrymandering will be on the results of the 2026 midterms, but one thing we can say for sure already: It won’t have been worth it. After three furious months that began when Texas’s August gerrymander kicked off a national…