Posted on 09/12/2017 7:59:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An ideologically divided U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday handed a win to Republicans in Texas by putting on hold rulings that said electoral districts drawn by state lawmakers discriminated against minority voters.
On a 5-4 vote, with the court’s conservatives in the majority and the liberal justices dissenting, the court in a brief order blocked two different lower court decisions that found fault with both congressional districts and state legislative districts drawn by the Republican-controlled state legislature.
In August, a federal court in Texas struck down two Republican-drawn congressional districts saying they were discriminatory and ordering new maps to be drawn ahead of elections in 2018....
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Well, 35 certainly looks gerrymandered to keep a democrat, but 27? Not so much, IMHO
More winning. SC makeup is the (only?) reason lots of folks voted for Trump. It was right up there on my list.
Thanks for posting. I hope Wisconsin gets a similar ruling. Arnold Schwartzenegger, of all people, doesn’t like the way Wisconsin districts are drawn and thinks they should be redone. May I point out that Ahnold doesn’t live in Wisconsin.
I seriously need to move to Texas...
Don’t forget the never trumpers wanted a liberal Supreme Court.
Recall that the District Court drew the map that it determined was unconstitutional. After finding that the map drawn by the legislature was flawed, the District Court forced Texas to use a map drawn the judges. The Texas legislature said fine, we’ll use your map. The District Court said that the legislature’s adoption of the District Court’s map was racist. No joke.
This was the correct decision.
Otherwise, they would have to invalidate all the districts in the U.S. since they all have been drawn to benefit the party in power at the time.
Well that’s the way it is and another big win for the good guys.
Do like we do. 3 bedroom, 2 bath 1,425 square foot home for $1,000 a month in a DFW suburb.
Credit where credit is due...thanks, Mitch, for slow walking the Garland Supreme Court nomination until 2017.
On most other issues, Meh
When the rule of law prevails 5-4, they are "ideologically divided". When judicial activism prevails 5-4, the answer becomes "the settled law of the land". The bias from propaganda outlets like Reuters is staggering.
The Democratic position on redistricting is essentially that “democratic” is effectively a proxy for “black” or “Hispanic,” so that anything that disadvantages democrats is racially discriminatory. The implication of this is that Democrats demand pro-Democratic gerrymandering as a constitutional necessity.
Yep - if it isn’t rigged as an advantage to Blacks and other minorities, it is obviously biased against them....until a rare bit of common sense is victorious.
Look at C-34 just south of CD-27. Much of CD-34 used to be in CD-27, but after the 2010 census, population gains in the Rio Grande Valley meant the legislature had to add an additional predominantly Hispanic district somewhere. The legislature just took areas that hand been added to CD-27 after the 2000 census to bolster Solomon Ortiz' declining voter base in his home county of Nueces.
Ortiz thought he could never lose in the district drawn up after the 2000 reapportionment, because it had so many Hispanics. He was wrong. He hardly ever was seen anywhere in the district for the last several terms he served. He was spending more and more time in China where his political cronies had set up a consulting business to facilitate kickbacks to his family.
Look at C-34 just south of CD-27. Much of CD-34 used to be in CD-27, but after the 2010 census, population gains in the Rio Grande Valley meant the legislature had to add an additional predominantly Hispanic district somewhere. The legislature just took areas that hand been added to CD-27 after the 2000 census to bolster Solomon Ortiz' declining voter base in his home county of Nueces.
Ortiz thought he could never lose in the district drawn up after the 2000 reapportionment, because it had so many Hispanics. He was wrong. He hardly ever was seen anywhere in the district for the last several terms he served. He was spending more and more time in China where his political cronies had set up a consulting business to facilitate kickbacks to his family.
Ours is a $1500 per month, 4br 2.5 bath 2500 sq ft brick in a western suburb of Houston. No flooding here. Pay attention to the topo maps and select a newer subdivision with correctly designed retention ponds (ours doubles as a park with playground, pavilions, soccer field, and baseball diamond. Running track around the street level perimeter) and appropriately designed storm sewers.
Sounds nice... I would like that. A couple acres to have a pack of hounds running around would be nice too.
When finances get a little better and I’m done work. Few years....
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