SCOTUS arms GOP a redistricting win by putting down block on Texas map

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The Supreme Courtroom handed down a victory for the Republican Occasion on Monday, putting down a decrease court docket's ruling that had blocked Texas' plans for redrawing its congressional districts.

The court docket hung its order on reasoning from a earlier ruling in Abbott v. League of United Latin American Residents, however didn't elaborate. The three liberal justices, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented from the choice.

The choice comes after the Supreme Courtroom quickly greenlit the state's map in December and California's map in February. Each states spearheaded the mid-cycle redistricting fights which have now been cropping up throughout the nation. The excessive court docket's approval of each states' maps, giving Republicans and Democrats five-seat benefits, respectively, served to cancel one another's efforts out forward of the 2026 midterms.

DOJ BACKS TEXAS IN SUPREME COURT FIGHT OVER REPUBLICAN-DRAWN MAP

Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, through the Republican Nationwide Conference (RNC) on the Fiserv Discussion board in Milwaukee on July 17, 2024. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures)

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, had requested the Supreme Courtroom final yr to pause a three-judge panel's ruling within the Western District of Texas that discovered 2-1 that race was an excessive amount of of a think about its redraw.

The Division of Justice additionally chimed in, telling the excessive court docket to intervene and reverse the choice, saying Texas' selection to vary its map was pushed by purely "partisan aims," not racial aims, which might violate the Voting Rights Act.

The voting rights teams who challenged Texas and Abbott claimed that the map was an unlawful racial gerrymander, however the excessive court docket present in December 6-3 that the teams couldn't supply another map that served Texas’ political wants.

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The excessive court docket stated within the unsigned order that the decrease court docket mustn't have "interfered with an lively main marketing campaign, inflicting a lot confusion and upsetting the fragile federal-state stability in elections."

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