So...Texas is Down a Few Legislators

True. Both houses are technically members of Congress, but nomenclature says HoR is a Congressman/woman and those in the Senate are Senators.

As for gerrymandering, I would say other "blue" states could potentially gerrymander if they wanted. Take Illinois. They could probably lump enough of the rural areas into one, large district, and replace the population with Chicago area and steal 2 out of the 3 R seats. Washington State could probably do the same with the SeaTac population and steal a seat. But it would be obvious and not representative of the population. Neither is what Texas is trying to do.

 

Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon is trying to UNDO race-based Congressional districts largely gerrymandered for Dems, and is suing to remove ineligible voters from the voter rolls.

"We are investigating violations of federal voting laws. We're ensuring that all 50 states have and continue to have clean voter rolls. We are challenging efforts to suppress or dilute the vote. We are attacking illegal race-based gerrymandering, and we are protecting ballot access for all Americans."

"We have sued jurisdictions such as North Carolina for not registering voters properly by first verifying their eligibility."

"We have notified Texas of grave concerns about congressional districts drawn with racial motivations, and we are suing other jurisdictions where there is evidence of ineligible voters on their voter rolls."

"Our job is to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat."

 

^ Fun!! Trump is encouraging Texas to gerrymander mid-decade ...... and ostensibly now will be using the power of the federal government to investigate any gerrymandering that he doesn't care for.

Who would have thought such abuse of government would come from electing a criminal?