Supreme Court tosses court ordered maps for Texas

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MojoMan

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The congressional redistricting maps created by a Texas court in lieu of the Texas legislature's maps have been thrown out by the Supreme Court, which ordered the lower court to use the Legislatures maps as a starting point for any rulings anticipating whether these maps are likely to be rejected by the DC Court of Appeals, which is reviewing the case for the purpose of seeing if they pass muster.
Also today, the Supreme Court stayed a ruling by a court that struck down West Virginia's redistricting plans.

Looks like the practice of map making by the lower courts is being substantially curtailed.

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Well that is some good news. It would be great if a blind system could be developed, but until that happens it is the job of the legislatures, not the freaking courts.
 
Actually, it is the job of the legislatures to design districts that are not in violation of the protection of the Voting Rights Act. It is kind of hard to see how the ones drawn by the wise men in Austin is not in violation.

The overwhelming increase in population came from minorities, specifically hispanics. The districts drawn by the legislature give three of the new districts to republicans and one looks like a sure thing for hispanics.

So a party which is overwhelmingly white draws new districts which are three fourths white and that is not in violation of the Voting Rights Act. Right.

The Supremes did not say the Texas federal courts could not rewrite the districts; they said they have to meet some guidelines in doing so and spell out how they are doing it rather than just a reshuffle as before.

No problem with that, but the new districts are not going to be set up for republicans to corral as many as possible, which was the way they were to start with.

My problem is with the concept, introduced by the Nixon Justice Department, that font of civil rights activism, that the Voting Rights Act requirements can best be met by drawing districts that only minorities can win and dumping all of them in those districts. That actually dillutes the effects of their votes.
 
There are so many issues that would have been much better left alone so that we could follow the constitution as originally written. The framers were geniuses.
 
REALLY? You are going back to Nixon? Why don't you go back a little farther in history there buddy? Or do you only go where it is conveniant to your argument?

Texas is almost 2-1 Conservative vs. Liberal. Even in the Democratic strongholds of the major cities, there are large swaths of Conservatives. The fastest growing part of the Republican party is hispanic.

I would be very careful in what you are asking for, 2nd generation and educated hispanics are overwhelming conservatives in Texas.
 
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