Divided Supreme Court Upholds Nearly All Of Texas GOP Redistricting Plan
The majority argued that courts can't assume district lines are unfair just because past ones were. Critics see the decision to uphold a "racially discriminatory" plan as an erosion of voting rights.
A bitterly divided Supreme Court on Monday upheld the redrawing of congressional and state legislative maps in Texas. The decision reversed earlier court findings that intentional racial discrimination had infected the way that some statehouse and congressional districts were drawn â and came five years to the day after the high court struck down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.
"Our legislative maps are legal"
The Texas decision comes in a case that has lasted so long and is so complicated that even
