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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He only did that bc he thought Trump would not win...to look tough. But as soon as SHE got in, he’d relent and curry favor with establishment...
I’d rather be lucky than good sometimes....
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