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Texas Redistricting U.S. Supreme Court Cases Resource Center; Current Texas election districts; United States District Court decision in pending litigation Archived May 26, 2006, at the Wayback Machine "Mess With Texas – the Supreme Court Has Another Look at Partisan Gerrymanders", by Dahlia Lithwick, Slate, March 1, 2006.
The Supreme Court agreed to the emergency request, and on January 20, 2012, vacated the maps developed by the Texas federal district court and instructed it to draw up new maps. [2] [3] The Texas federal district court used the state-derived maps as a starting point and issued their new maps by February 2012.
The Department of Justice sued the state for racial discrimination, and a federal court re-drew the state's map, but the U.S. Supreme Court overturned this decision, holding that the court had not paid enough attention to the maps drawn by the legislature. [185] [186] [187] The Supreme Court upheld the state's redistricting plan in 2018. [188]
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday signed redrawn voting maps that pave a safer path for the GOP’s slipping majority, leaving opponents hoping courts will block the newly gerrymandered ...
Redistricting in the United States is the process of drawing electoral district boundaries. [1] For the United States House of Representatives, and state legislatures, redistricting occurs after each ten-year census. [2] The U.S. Constitution in Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3 provides for proportional representation in the
Texas's 5th congressional district, 2002 [12] Party Candidate Votes % Republican: Jeb Hensarling: 81,439 : 58.21 : Democratic: Ron Chapman 56,330 40.26 Libertarian: Dan Michalski 1,283 0.92 Green: Thomas Kemper 856 0.61 Total votes 139,908 : 100 : Republican win (new seat)
A panel of three U.S. District judges ruled the coastal 1st District, represented by Republican Nancy Mace, is an unlawful racial gerrymander and that elections in the district must cease until ...
Bartlett v. Strickland, 556 U.S. 1 (2009), is a United States Supreme Court case in which a plurality of the Court held that a minority group must constitute a numerical majority of the voting-age population in an area before section 2 of the Voting Rights Act requires the creation of a legislative district to prevent dilution of that group's votes.