ross. and he said of gerrymandering, he said gerrymandering leads to hyperpartisan politics where special interests rule and party extremists are incentivized. he added the republicans want to dodge the consequences for their actions. and he s right. i used to be in the voting rights section of the department of justice. and gerrymandering is one of those areas that is really the bread and butter of civil rights work. because we know that the right to vote, and the access of the ballot box is going to determine much of democracy. and what he s alluding to is the notion if you re trying to dilute the voting power of a group of people, a language minority, a racial minority, to be able to elect a candidate of their choosing, you don t really have a good democracy. you have essentially a select few choosing for the rest of the people. and so the doj just sued texas as you know for the same reason, the voter delusion aspects of it. we talk about the consequences of one s action, this is