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SCOTUS heard the partisan gerrymandering case, and it sounded like they don't know what to do.
my guess is in all these cases, scotus with go 5-4 and the Repug-favoring status quo will remain.
State also at risk of being forced to return to federal voting supervision
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/new...l-12851565.php
WASHINGTON — The nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will take their seats Tuesday morning to hear a case that could remake the political map of Texas.
Hidden in the legalese of “interlocutory injunctions” and “statutory defects” is this simple question for the justices to dissect: Did the Republican-led state Legislature purposely draw its last legislative and congressional boundaries to subvert the voting power of Latino and African-American voters?
The answer, expected by June, could influence the racial and partisan makeup of the state’s political districts, culminating a long, high-stakes legal battle that has the potential to turn Texas a little more blue.
A possible finding of voting rights violations also could force the Lone Star State back under federal supervision for future election disputes, a civil rights remedy associated with the state’s segregationist past. Texas only got removed from federal preclearance requirements in 2013. Restrictions requiring strict federal scrutiny of all elections had been in place since the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
SCOTUS heard the partisan gerrymandering case, and it sounded like they don't know what to do.
my guess is in all these cases, scotus with go 5-4 and the Repug-favoring status quo will remain.
Im OK with that.
Justice Kennedy has given credence to the free speech arguments against gerrymandering ie that one is discriminated against for voicing a political opinion with political gerrymandering. The rest of the votes are pretty obvious.
partial win for Texas, one district must be redrawn:
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-t...n-13023650.php
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