The nation’s highest court says the political maps in Texas are legal, except for racial gerrymandering in one Fort Worth district. But the courts aren’t going to fix that in time for this year’s elections.
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Texas Voting Rights
Texas elections to move forward without changes to state House district map despite racial gerrymander finding
A San Antonio-based panel of judges ordered the state’s maps should remain unchanged despite outstanding issues with House District 90, which the U.S. Supreme Court said was illegally drawn.
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Texas Voting Rights
U.S. Supreme Court rules Texas lawmakers did not intentionally discriminate in drawing political maps
The court also upheld 10 of 11 districts that had been flagged as problematic.
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This Is Your Texas
Voting rights groups say a citizens commission could fix gerrymandering. It’s unlikely to happen.
As the U.S. Supreme Court ponders a Texas redistricting case, a coalition of voting and civil rights groups is pushing to establish an independent commission in which citizens, rather than lawmakers, would draw the state’s political maps.
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Demographics
Texas Hispanic groups sue Trump administration over census citizenship question
Texas groups representing Latino residents are among those who are suing the Trump administration over the addition of a question about citizenship to the 2020 census questionnaire.
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Analysis: It doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court says. Texas Republicans already won redistricting.
The U.S. Supreme Court is considering a Texas redistricting case that could ultimately result in big changes to the state’s political maps. But the courts have taken seven years to get this far, and that’s a win for the Republicans favored by the current maps.
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State Government
Texas redistricting case’s oral arguments at U.S. Supreme Court focus on jurisdiction debate
As the U.S. Supreme Court took up Texas’ redistricting case, several justices questioned whether they even had the authority to pick up where a lower court left off.
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Graphics and data reporting
How a fluke win diminished the political clout of Hispanic voters in this Texas congressional district
Two congressional districts are part of a Texas redistricting case the U.S. Supreme Court will take up Tuesday. Here’s a detailed look at what’s at issue in one of them: the 27th Congressional District.
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Puzzling shapes: Travel across this gerrymandered Texas district
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in a Texas redistricting case that has flagged two congressional districts and nine Texas House districts. Here’s a closer look at one of the districts in question: U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett’s curiously shaped 35th Congressional District.
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Texas redistricting fight returns to the U.S. Supreme Court. Here’s what you need to know.
The U.S. Supreme Court this week will hear a case over whether Texas’ congressional and state House maps were drawn with the intent to discriminate against Hispanic and black voters.
