http://www.gopusa.com/supreme-court-sides-with-texas-in-redistricting-map-dispute/
The Supreme Court is upholding Texas' use of electoral districts that a lower court struck down as racially discriminatory.
The justices ruled 5-4 Monday in an unusual case involving congressional and state legislative districts that had first been adopted by the lower court on an interim basis, then approved by the Texas Legislature.
In 2017, the same judges who approved the interim maps in 2012 agreed with the challengers that the maps were the product of intentional discrimination.
But Justice Samuel Alito said for the court's conservative majority that the lower court made a mistake by striking down two congressional and seven state house districts. The high court struck down one safe Democratic House district in Fort Worth because the state relied too heavily on race when it increased the district's Latino population. ...
In 2013, the Texas legislature used a 2012 court-approved interim plan as the basis for its redistricting. In 2017, the hypocrites in black robes changed their minds and said the redistricting plan - basically THEIR original plan - was racist. Justice Sam Alito shot their ass down in flames ...
That judicial panel, though, initially had approved the voting maps on an interim basis, boundaries that were subsequently enacted by the state legislature. That, said Justice Samuel Alito for the conservative majority, showed a presumption of good faith.
The lower court, said Alito, "enacted, with only very small changes, plans that had been developed by the Texas court." He added, "All these facts gave the Legislature good reason to believe that the court-approved interim plans were legally sound."
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