"The redistricting fixed that imbalance by shifting power back to districts with legal residents. Al Green’s district, packed with non-citizen populations, was rightly dissolved."
But what will Jasmine and AOC say?
Representative Al Green, who has served Texas’s 9th Congressional District since 2005, will finally leave office.
"The Texas Legislature, led by Republicans, passed a legal redrawing of congressional maps that effectively eliminates District 9. Green, best known not for legislation but for shouting down President Trump during his address to Congress in March 2025, will be removed from office after nearly two decades of loud, ineffective, and divisive politics.
"Unsurprisingly, Rep. Al Green called the redistricting racist. But the only racial injustice here is the Democrat Party’s decades-long abuse of district lines to cling to power.
"In his angry press release, Green declared that the elimination of his district—along with TX-18, TX-29, and TX-33—was part of a “racist, unconstitutional scheme” led by President Trump’s Justice Department and Attorney General Ken Paxton.
"Green compared Texas Republicans to segregation-era racists and claimed that the GOP was targeting Black and Hispanic communities because “they elect people of color.” But that accusation falls apart under even basic scrutiny.
"Redistricting is legal. It happens every ten years following the census—but Texas law also allows mid-decade redistricting, something Democrats took advantage of in the 1990s.
"When Democrats controlled Texas politics, they created gerrymandered maps that were explicitly race-based. In 1991, under Governor Ann Richards and State Senator Eddie Bernice Johnson, Democrats drew new maps to form majority-Black and majority-Hispanic districts to keep their power intact." . . .More...
Gregory Lyakhov is the youngest nationally syndicated columnist in America. He contributes regularly to dozens of major publications and is a staunch advocate for school choice.
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