Jasmine Crockett on Gerrymandering: ‘This Is Exactly What Happens When Democracies Are in Free Fall’

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CROCKETT: "Yeah, this is exactly what happens when democracies are in free fall. And that’s exactly what we’re experiencing. Listen, you and I first met one another when I was a state representative and I was fleeing the state of Texas, and it was over maps then. By the time they were going after the new maps that we ran on in March, guess what? I had already been in litigation over the previous maps because they were problematic, and it was a Trump-appointed justice who agreed that even what they were doing in this moment was racist. But four days before our filing deadline, that was when the Supreme Court decided to say, 'Nope, we’re not going to deal with this. It’s too close to the filing deadline, and therefore we won’t touch it.' But we know that they’ve changed their tune as it relates to, say, votes that have already been cast."