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Showing Original Post only (View all)On a party line vote, Supreme Court restores Texas Republican-drawn maps [View all]
Source: Think Progress
In a victory for Republicans, all the Republican members of the Supreme Court joined a pair of orders handed down Tuesday, staying a lower court decision which struck down two Republican-drawn districts. All four of the Courts Democrats would have denied the stay.
Tuesday evenings orders are the latest development in a long, winding challenge to Texas gerrymandered maps. You can read a summary of the many twists and turns in this case, as well as the legal issues before the Supreme Court, here.
The crux of the case is that, last month, a three-judge panel of federal judges held that two Texas congressional districts were illegally drawn the first because it was intentionally drawn to dilute Hispanic votes, the second because it was drawn with too much reliance on race.
Texas, represented by Republican superlawyer Paul Clement, asked the Supreme Court to stay this decision, arguing that allowing the State to continue to use [its current maps] for the 2018 elections will impose little harm, because if the plaintiffs ultimately prevail before this Court on appeal, a new map could still be drawn in time for the 2020 elections.
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/on-a-party-line-vote-supreme-court-restores-texas-republican-drawn-maps-73ac3257f13e/
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