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unbiased your favorite source of unbiased news and legal analysis welcome back to to unbiased politics. Today is Thursday, August 21st.

Let's talk about some news. There's nothing really too major going on in the news today. And what I mean by

that is there's not going to be one story that takes up the majority of the episode. Instead, we'll

kind of just cover a handful of random stories

that are happening across the country. We're kind of taking it back to the old days today where I used to

do 25-ish-minute episodes. So it'll be a good episode, nonetheless, but it's just a little slower.

I think when Congress is out of session, so August, for instance, the news is just naturally a little bit slower.

So that's what we're experiencing right now.

But we're going to work with what we have.

So let's start, of course, with the news out of Texas.

This really could have been a quick hitter because the new congressional map in Texas has not yet passed the Senate, but I know that

this is what everyone is going to be talking about once it does pass the Senate. So let's talk about

it now. The Texas House passed a new congressional map that favors the Republican Party, right?

This is something we've been talking about for weeks on this podcast,

but now that the Texas House has actually passed the map, we're talking about it again.

Now, this is something called partisan gerrymandering. Okay, when a state redraws their district lines to favor one political party over another, that's partisan gerrymandering. And partisan gerrymandering is

usually permissible so long as it doesn't dilute minority voting power and so long as a state

doesn't prohibit it in their constitution. So some states prohibit this this partisan gerrymandering, but most states don't.

Texas doesn't, for instance.

If partisan gerrymandering is used as a cover for racial discrimination, that's when it violates

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