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In a 5-4 party line decision, the SCOTUS once again decided to let maps that were accused on being gerrymandered stand unchanged.
The court found that just one of Texas' 90 electoral districts was a racial gerrymander, even though district courts in Texas unanimously found otherwise. In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court said that Texas' legislative and congressional maps are not a racial gerrymander and that all districts are OK, except for one, which it determined is a racial gerrymander — House District 90.
Sonia Sotomayor wrote a 46 page dissent joined by the courts other liberal justices:"The Court today goes out of its way to permit the State of Texas to use maps that he three-judge District Court unanimously found were adopted for the purpose of preserving the racial discrimination that tainted its previous maps."
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/25/6231...tical-map-is-largely-not-a-racial-gerrymander
The court found that just one of Texas' 90 electoral districts was a racial gerrymander, even though district courts in Texas unanimously found otherwise. In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court said that Texas' legislative and congressional maps are not a racial gerrymander and that all districts are OK, except for one, which it determined is a racial gerrymander — House District 90.
Sonia Sotomayor wrote a 46 page dissent joined by the courts other liberal justices:"The Court today goes out of its way to permit the State of Texas to use maps that he three-judge District Court unanimously found were adopted for the purpose of preserving the racial discrimination that tainted its previous maps."
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/25/6231...tical-map-is-largely-not-a-racial-gerrymander
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