The Districts Sleep Alone Tonight

A Colorado judge has struck down a recent round of GOP-friendly redistricting, and a similar challenge is being mounted in Texas. My question is, when articles like this can nonchalantly discuss the large numbers of legislative seats certain to be shifted by the tweaking of district boundaries, how can elected officials then go on to talk about their "democratic mandates" with a straight face? These stories always remind me of a certain Brecht poem…