Texas Republicans have gone to greater extremes to suppress votes & illegally gerrymander than in almost any other state, but now that it’s becoming more competitive, they’re proposing to literally gerrymander statewide elections by picking the winner based on TX Senate districts
Schemes like this have been unconstitutional since Georgia’s county-based “electoral college” was struck down by SCOTUS in 1963. But the GOP has long had it out to undermine “one person, one vote,” Texas GOP especially
Texas' political geography increasingly favors Dems because nonvoters count in redistricting, but TX GOP has long aimed to draw districts based solely on adult citizens. Even if Dems flip the TX House in November, GOP will control legislative redistricting (but not congressional)
If TX Dems flip the state House in November, they could force a deadlock that would see a court draw the congressional map, but a GOP-majority backup commission would draw legislative maps. I detailed every state's process & current partisan control here: dailykos.com/stories/2020/1…
Yes, Dems have basically no hope of flipping Texas' Senate this year due to which half of the seats are up, but even if they somehow did, that would still leave the GOP in charge of the backup commission since it consists of the state House speaker & 4 GOP statewide officials
