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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]
After a Supreme Court ruling found the nearby 23rd district violated the Voting Rights Act, the 25th district was redrawn for the 2006 election, where Rep. Doggett again prevailed. Chet Edwards ( TX-11 ) was moved into the 17th district , which had a higher percentage of Republican voters in its new form.
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.
Texas has had to defend redrawn district lines in court since the Voting Rights Act took effect, but this is the first time since a U.S. Supreme Court ruling said Texas and other states with a ...
Perry, 548 U.S. 399 (2006), is a Supreme Court of the United States case in which the Court ruled that only District 23 of the 2003 Texas redistricting violated the Voting Rights Act. [1] The Court refused to throw out the entire plan, ruling that the plaintiffs failed to state a sufficient claim of partisan gerrymandering.
House boundaries redrawn before the 2022 elections based on the last decennial census have been redr Court cases lead to new voting districts in some states. Could it affect control of Congress?
The courts uniquely “have intermediate appellate jurisdiction in both civil and criminal cases appealed from district or county c ... heard by the Texas Supreme Court, which rules on civil cases ...
The reason for this arrangement stems from the controversial 2003 Texas redistricting plan which was ruled unconstitutional with respect to the 23rd district by the Supreme Court in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry. The Court ruled that the plan was a racial gerrymander; specifically that it lowered the Hispanic population ...