Kansas Republicans Earn Praise For Rejecting MAGA Redistricting

The power move here . . . 

GOP politicos bank that the MAGA era is coming to and end and dare it imagine the political future wherein Internets trolls don't imagine themselves as useful. This might or might not be a wise move given how much social media dominates the discourse on "many sides" of the equation.

Check-it . . .  

But even in a state that went for Trump by 16 percentage points in 2024, Republicans could not rally enough support this fall for a special session on redistricting.

"I haven't heard a good reason yet to vote for it," said Mark Schreiber, one of 10 Republican holdouts in the Kansas state House. "To me that's not the purpose of redistricting. It's not used as a political tool to increase your majority, it's to adjust for population changes."

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In Kansas and elsewhere, some state lawmakers are skeptical of the redistricting rush

Kansas Republican leaders couldn't rally enough support this fall for a special session on redistricting. It's just one example of lawmakers pushing back on a new round of partisan gerrymandering.