Supreme Court Judge Puts a Hold on Texas Court's Redistricting Rulings
https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2017/09/01/supreme-court-judge-puts-a-hold-on-texas-courts-redistricting-rulings
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has single-handedly halted two sweeping rulings made by federal judges in Texas, potentially impacting the legality of Texas' 2018 elections.
The two rulings, one made in San Antonio by a three-judge panel on August 24, the other by a Corpus Christi judge ten days earlier, both address an issue that's long-plagued Texas' voting system: gerrymandering. That's when lawmakers intentionally re-draw state or federal district lines to skew voting power, usually done to favor a certain political party. In these recent cases, however, the federal courts found that conservative Texas lawmakers specifically drew district lines to dilute the votes of African American and Hispanic Texans and "ensure Anglo control" over the state...
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