NY Times: “Lloyd Doggett had been set to bow out of politics after three decades in the U.S. House after Republicans in the Texas Legislature redrew his congressional district this summer. If he hadn’t, he would have been forced into a re-election battle against a young fellow Democrat and rising progressive star in the Austin area, Greg Casar.
Then a federal court stepped in and blocked the new map, with a three-judge panel ruling they found “substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map.”
For a moment, Mr. Doggett found a political career that dates back to 1973 suddenly revived. “The reports of my death, politically, are greatly exaggerated,” he said.
Maybe — or maybe not.
Mr. Doggett’s tale of uncertainty is one of many such stories in Texas as incumbents and would-be challengers struggle with the on-again-off-again-back-on-again saga of Republican efforts to gerrymander House districts to deliver President Trump as many as five more seats in next year’s midterm elections.”