Almost every major redistricting decision has in actuality involved just one or two districts of a given state. To reiterate, the big question is what the remedy will be. Even one invalid district must be fixed, and that means new maps. When I looked at this a couple months ago, my sense was the just striking down the TX-24 district that was struck down requires substantially adjusting at least a half dozen other districts.
Yes, but won't the change still mean that those districts will still elect 5 Republicans and 1 Democrat (E.B. Johnson)?
Maybe Kenny Marchant ends up in a primary with Pete Sessions...
Yep, seems like it may take a bit to fully understand the exact ruling and its details.
More from the Scotus blog link in post #9:
"Here is a key paragraph in Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's plurality opinion in the Texas redistricting case: "In sum, we disagree with appellants' view that a legislature's decision to override a valid, court-drawn plan mid-decade is sufficiently suspect to give shape to a reliable standard for identifying unconstiutitonal political gerrymanders. We conclude that appellants have established no legally iimpermissible use of political classifications. For this reason, they state no claim on which relief may be granted for their statewide challenge."