Legislative districts exist to ensure that voters have roughly equivalent representation in government for their region. 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 were governor of Texas, and the president of the United States asked me to interrupt a special session intended to address emergency flood response to instead redraw 5-year-old legislative districts favorable to the president, my answer would 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, using software 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.
