Responding to the surprise ruling from a Trump-appointed Texas federal judge bricking the Lone Star State GOP’s ill-planned mid-decade gerrymander, Republican California Congressman Kevin Kiley – one of the five almost certainly doomed in 2026 after Prop 50’s passage – told Punchbowl’s Laura Weiss that “To the extent there was any point to begin with – which I don’t think there was – I don’t think even if you’ve got a partisan advantage on this it in any way shape or form justifies it. But that’s not even gonna happen it looks like. And with this court decision, it’s even more in doubt.”
“So it’s just utterly foolish,” Kiley continued, also ripping into Jesus Dork Speaker Mike Johnson’s failure to push back against convicted felon President Trump’s push to rig the midterms and come to some kind of truce with Democrats. “It was a total failure of leadership to let this happen in a way that is going to be bad for our own members, bad for the House, bad for representation across the country,” Kiley, whose seat was a sacrifice Trump and Johnson were willing to make, seethed.