This is a win for the Republicans. At WORST, with good redrawing of the struck-down district (and other districts that will have be redrawn near it to compensate), we will lose one of the seats we gained in Texas. This is clearly not what the DUmmies wanted. (They are freaking out over there. It was quite amusing to see them go "Woohoo" at first when the biased media report first came out, and then as some of the more intelligent DUmmies started to read the decision, they realized that this really is a huge victory for Delay and the Republicans.)
An interesting point is that in addition to losing on the big constitutional questions, the libs won only ONE of the two VRA issues. Kennedy, joined by Alito and Roberts (and by Scalia and Thomas, although for different reasons) upheld the Dallas-area redistricting.
Are you sure about that, if the court does the redrawing and does so quickly for this election?