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KSAT Explains: Texas redistricting and battle over redrawing the maps
Episode 23 dives into gerrymandering, preclearance, why process is expected to be different in 2021
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SAN ANTONIO – Redistricting is a complicated process that helps define the political landscape. The once-a-decade process is happening again this year.
The Texas Legislature will take up the task of redrawing the lines on our state’s congressional and legislative maps when they receive the results from the 2020 census.
These maps have repeatedly been challenged over the decades because of allegations of giving unfair advantages to certain political parties or voting groups.
In this episode of KSAT Explains, we examine how this process has become so contentious and dive into why this year’s process is expected to be different.
February 1, 2021 3:46 p.m.
Like so many episodes in the Trump era, one of the administration’s most audacious moves was first made public in a tweet.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was in a bind. At the time, a court order giving the Census Bureau more time to finish its count put in jeopardy Trump’s plan to fundamentally change how political power is doled out across the country. The President wanted to exclude undocumented immigrants from the congressional apportionment count, which would starve immigrant-friendly states of House seats while boosting the representation of whiter, more reliably Republican parts of the country.