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U.S. Supreme Court could send clear signal in Texas redistricting case if it extends administrative stay
CBS News ^ | November 30, 2025 | Jack Fink

Posted on 12/01/2025 2:28:36 AM PST by fwdude

The U.S. Supreme Court could soon extend its administrative stay in the Texas redistricting case that has generated nationwide controversy and headlines for months. If so, a legal analyst told CBS News Texas that it will become a clear signal that the Justices will keep the 2025 congressional maps in place for next year's all-important midterm elections.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; redistricting; scotus; texas
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“Republicans have insisted they were motivated by partisan gains, not race, when they redrew the districts over the summer.”

As Democrats have been doing incessantly for many decades.

1 posted on 12/01/2025 2:28:36 AM PST by fwdude
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To: fwdude

Courts need to get out of drawing congressional districts. It’s a political act and was always intended to be so. Judges making such determinations just undermines confidence in the judiciary. Judges who draw congressional districts are acting politically.


2 posted on 12/01/2025 4:39:32 AM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Dr. Franklin; fwdude

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Courts need to get out of drawing congressional districts. It’s a political act and was always intended to be so. Judges making such determinations just undermines confidence in the judiciary. Judges who draw congressional districts are acting politically.
>

We’re MOONS past Constitutional Republic that ‘undermines confidence in {X}’ is a joke


3 posted on 12/01/2025 5:12:47 AM PST by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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To: Dr. Franklin

Yep, they civil rights act, although well intended, is and was a disaster, and should have been allowed to expire.


4 posted on 12/01/2025 5:25:54 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Dr. Franklin

“Judges who draw congressional districts are acting politically.”

And unconstitutionally.


5 posted on 12/01/2025 5:54:10 AM PST by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: fwdude

“...and unconstitutionally”...that never seems to deter some “judges”.


6 posted on 12/01/2025 6:30:14 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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