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A District Court Just Ruled That Texas Gerrymandering Violated the Voting Rights Act

The long-awaited ruling dropped Friday night.
Ben Dreyfuss Mar. 10, 2017

The case in question was originally filed in 2011 and charged that the congressional redistricting that happened after the 2010 census in Texas had been intentionally designed to dilute and diminish the votes of minorities.

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Tonight, in a 2-1 decision the US District Court for the Western District of Texas ruled that, indeed, the boundaries of certain districts in the Lone Star State do violate both the Voting Rights Act and the Equal Protection Clause of the US Constitution.



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[JakeStarkey]

District voting alignment should be designed by a non-partisan non-government organization.

 

[Star]

District voting alignment should be designed by a non-partisan non-government organization.

The Federal Courts handed the constitutionally challenged Republican Party another gerrymandering defeat in Virginia.

U.S. Supreme Court Reverses Lower Court Ruling in Virginia Racial Gerrymandering Case

March 1, 2017

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision today in Bethune-Hill v. Virginia State Board of Elections, finding that the trial court used the wrong standard when deciding that race did not predominate in the drawing of 11 of Virginia’s state legislative districts. The Court has remanded the case back to the trial court for reconsideration. The 6-2 decision of the Court was authored by Justice Kennedy. All eight justices concurred that the trial court used the wrong legal standard, but Justices Alito and Thomas disagreed with the majority’s decision to remand the question of whether race predominated — they both would hold that it did without further proceedings.

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[francoHFW]

Brought to you by your cheating, lying, brainwashing New BS GOP. A bought off disgrace.