Further extending a drawn-out legal battle, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a case over whether Texas’ congressional and House district boundaries discriminate against voters of color.
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Courts
What to expect in Texas’ voting rights court fights in 2018
The legal battles over the state’s political maps and voter ID requirements will extend into 2018. Here’s what to expect.
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2017 Year in Review
Analyses in the rearview mirror: Texas redistricting
Some of the political kids in Texas wanted a quick ruling on redistricting for Christmas, a perennial request that never seems to be granted. With just two Texas elections left in the decade, the courts are still arguing over the state’s maps.
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Lock the Vote
How the Texas redistricting lawsuit outlived a voter who sued
The six-year battle over the state’s redistricting plan illustrates how a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling four years ago has shifted the burden in challenges of such laws.
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Politics
Analysis: How do they cheat thee? Count the ways
Legislative majorities often cheat when they’re drawing political maps, but a case argued this week in the U.S. Supreme Court could put new limits on lawmaker decisions about who represents whom.
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Pasadena drops appeal, will remain under federal oversight of election laws
Following a Pasadena City Council vote to settle a voting rights lawsuit over how it redrew its council districts in 2013, the city will remain under federal oversight for any changes to its voting laws until 2023 — the only setup of its kind in Texas.
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Texas Elections 2018
Analysis: Forget about new political maps — probably
The nation’s highest court says Texas should use the political maps it already has in place while litigation over those maps continues. But the courts have been known to change the maps in the middle of election years.
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Supreme Court puts redrawing of Texas political maps on hold
In separate orders issued Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked two lower court rulings that invalidated parts of the state’s congressional and House maps where lawmakers were found to have discriminated against voters of color, putting on hold efforts to redraw those maps.
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Here’s a look at where things stand in Texas redistricting court battle
With the clock ticking toward the 2018 elections, here’s a status update on Texas’ long-winding redistricting court battle.
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Courts
U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocks ruling against Texas House map
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily put on hold a lower court ruling that invalidated nine of Texas’ 150 House seats.
