Rep. Fletcher: Trump May LOSE the Texas Map Fight!
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🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:18.0 | The Home of Homes. Hey everyone, Sarah Longwell here, publisher of the bulwark, and I have the fantastic Lizzie Fletcher, Congresswoman from Texas, here to explain all that's happening with this Texas redistricting case to me. Lizzie, thanks for being here. Glad to be here. Always glad to be with you, Sarah. |
| 0:39.2 | I can't believe I just called you, Lizzie. |
| 0:41.8 | I should call you Congresswoman Fletcher like a grown-up. |
| 0:48.5 | The problem is Congresswoman Fletcher and I know each other because we both went to Kenyon and she was five years older than I was. |
| 0:51.5 | And so we were at reunion together. |
| 0:53.5 | Yes, we were on a panel. So that's how it started. |
| 0:57.6 | And honestly, most people call me Lizzie because I put it on everything. You know, fun fact, |
| 1:03.1 | I put it on the ballot, even though I was a practicing lawyer putting Elizabeth on everything, |
| 1:07.2 | because I was like, but everybody knows me as Lizzie. So, you know, you're welcome. There's a lot of like Team Lizzie merch. I can get you saying in that. And it's all good. |
| 1:16.0 | So I'm perfectly happy for you to call me Lizzie. Please do. Okay. I just, I, I, I sometimes forget, |
| 1:21.2 | decorum is, is still an important part of our system. And you are a congresswoman and a, |
| 1:26.7 | I know, I know. It's all so sad and |
| 1:30.5 | depressing. Well, you know what? It looks like, to some degree, there are still rules. There are still |
| 1:36.9 | courts. And one of them just ruled there in Texas that the new congressional map for 2026 that the president of the United States |
| 1:48.5 | pushed on Texas as mid-cycle redistricting in order to procure more democratic, I'm sorry, |
| 1:56.2 | I'll cut that, to get more Republican House seats, squeeze them out of Texas, the court said no. |
| 2:03.7 | They said that they have to stick to the lines passed in 2021. |
| 2:07.6 | So three judge panel that ruled that. |
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