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Livetweeting of very controversial proposal to redistrict the Texas appellate courts.
Why controversial? Skeptics say it is just a partisan gerrymander that creates more Republican courts (to counteract Democrats wins in many of the Texas courts of appeals). #AppellateTwitter.
Why controversial? Skeptics say it is just a partisan gerrymander that creates more Republican courts (to counteract Democrats wins in many of the Texas courts of appeals). #AppellateTwitter.
For people outside Texas who have perhaps a stereotypical view of the politics here, nearly all of the trial courts in cities are held by Democrats, and Democrats control majorities on the big city courts of appeals.
But the legislature is controlled by Republicans. Hence the tension that is alleged to be at the heart of this proposal.
