Posted on 03/01/2017 8:14:23 AM PST by COBOL2Java
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court sent parts of a race-based challenge to Virginia’s state House districts back to a lower court for further review Wednesday, while upholding the lower court panel’s findings that one majority black district was legally drawn.
In an 8-0 decision written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Supreme Court found a three-judge District Court panel followed an incorrect legal standard in its analysis of 11 of the 12 districts challenged in the case. The lower court had required those challenging the districts to show an actual conflict between the plan that was adopted following the 2010 census and one that could be drawn using traditional political redistricting principles without regard for race.
The high Court finds that the state must show race was not an unlawful consideration in drawing the lines, regardless of what explanations lawmakers may be able to come up with later.
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Why? This is case has been going on since 2011, All the Supreme Court did was punt it back to the lower court, by the time it winds its way back through the judicial system it will be 2020 and the case will be moot because the districts will be completely redrawn again after the 2020 Census.
Desperate for optics?
Here’s hoping that bilge rat old lady succumbs...... cross your fingers.
8-0 is a split decision? Common Core math?
8-0 is a split decision? Common Core math?
I would like to know where the Supreme Court discovered the authority to hear a case like this in the first place.
It is split because they ruled for both parties. They said half of the original was correct and half was wrong.
Surprising is that it was an 8-0 decision.
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