Legislative districts exist to ensure voters have roughly equivalent representation for
their region in government. The purpose of a census every 10 years is to determine
how many people live in those regions so that districts can maintain equivalent
representation.
If I was governor of Texas, and the president of the United States asked me to interrupt
a special session intended to address emergency response to floods to instead redraw
5 year old legislative districts favorable to the president, my answer is no.
Political parties have used redistricting in a perverse manner. It has become a cliché
that they are choosing voters instead of voters choosing their representatives. In 2003
a Libertarian named Jon Roland presented a plan (https://constitution.org/1-
Activism/reform/us/tx/redistrict/cnpr.htm) to the Texas legislature making use of software
that Texas already has. It would allow the software to produce non-partisan district
maps that are compact and fair.
Political parties should not override the will of the voters. We need non-partisan
redistricting.
