Gerrymandering looks like a worse and worse bet for GOP

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…

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…