Sometimes you wonder how things wind up at the highest court in the land. You grow up with the term fighting all the way to the Supreme Court. Then one day they release a ruling and you wonder how it could get that far. Today was that day as the Supreme Court threw out electoral maps drawn by federal judges in Texas that favored minorities? The thing about this is that the unsigned opinion leaves the fate of Texas primaries in April unclear. The three-judge court in San Antonio was told to come up with new plans that pay more attention to maps created by the Texas state Legislature. The reason this is here is the democrats know that this outcomes means that all four of the state’s new congressional seats, which could mean control of the House of Representative, hangs in the balance. They are instructed that the judges must stick more closely to what the Legislature did. The results of the 2010 census found that Texas had added more than 4 million new residents. Republicans now represent 23 of the 32 current districts. The complicated legal fight over redistricting in Texas is playing out in three federal court The Supreme Court, the Federal court in San Antonio, and a three-judge court in Washington. The bottom line is this is now too late to change and they must go with what they have for the primaries.
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