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U.S. top court hands win to Republicans over Texas voting maps
Reuters ^ | September 12, 2017 | Lawrence Hurley

Posted on 09/12/2017 7:59:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An ideologically divided U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday handed a win to Republicans in Texas by putting on hold rulings that said electoral districts drawn by state lawmakers discriminated against minority voters.

On a 5-4 vote, with the court’s conservatives in the majority and the liberal justices dissenting, the court in a brief order blocked two different lower court decisions that found fault with both congressional districts and state legislative districts drawn by the Republican-controlled state legislature.

In August, a federal court in Texas struck down two Republican-drawn congressional districts saying they were discriminatory and ordering new maps to be drawn ahead of elections in 2018....

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Texas; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: gerrymander; redistricting; republicans; texas
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1 posted on 09/12/2017 7:59:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Elections matter


2 posted on 09/12/2017 8:00:32 PM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: Chauncey Gardiner
SC Justices.
It's the number one reason I voted for Trump.
3 posted on 09/12/2017 8:02:40 PM PDT by CaptainK (No collusion.No obstruction.He's a leaker.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, 35 certainly looks gerrymandered to keep a democrat, but 27? Not so much, IMHO


4 posted on 09/12/2017 8:07:30 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

More winning. SC makeup is the (only?) reason lots of folks voted for Trump. It was right up there on my list.


5 posted on 09/12/2017 8:08:34 PM PDT by upchuck (I speak my mind because it hurts to keep biting my tongue all the time.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thanks for posting. I hope Wisconsin gets a similar ruling. Arnold Schwartzenegger, of all people, doesn’t like the way Wisconsin districts are drawn and thinks they should be redone. May I point out that Ahnold doesn’t live in Wisconsin.


6 posted on 09/12/2017 8:16:02 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I seriously need to move to Texas...


7 posted on 09/12/2017 8:36:41 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Don’t forget the never trumpers wanted a liberal Supreme Court.


8 posted on 09/12/2017 8:40:53 PM PDT by nhwingut (Trump Pence 16 - Blow Up DC)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Recall that the District Court drew the map that it determined was unconstitutional. After finding that the map drawn by the legislature was flawed, the District Court forced Texas to use a map drawn the judges. The Texas legislature said fine, we’ll use your map. The District Court said that the legislature’s adoption of the District Court’s map was racist. No joke.


9 posted on 09/12/2017 8:41:36 PM PDT by SSS Two
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This was the correct decision.

Otherwise, they would have to invalidate all the districts in the U.S. since they all have been drawn to benefit the party in power at the time.


10 posted on 09/12/2017 8:47:11 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well that’s the way it is and another big win for the good guys.


11 posted on 09/12/2017 9:07:31 PM PDT by TexasCruzin (Trump is the man. #TrumpPence16)
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To: NFHale

Do like we do. 3 bedroom, 2 bath 1,425 square foot home for $1,000 a month in a DFW suburb.


12 posted on 09/12/2017 10:11:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Credit where credit is due...thanks, Mitch, for slow walking the Garland Supreme Court nomination until 2017.

On most other issues, Meh


13 posted on 09/12/2017 11:29:10 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (12:01 PM 1/20/2017,,,The end of an error.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
An ideologically divided U.S. Supreme Court

When the rule of law prevails 5-4, they are "ideologically divided". When judicial activism prevails 5-4, the answer becomes "the settled law of the land". The bias from propaganda outlets like Reuters is staggering.

14 posted on 09/13/2017 3:03:24 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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The Democratic position on redistricting is essentially that “democratic” is effectively a proxy for “black” or “Hispanic,” so that anything that disadvantages democrats is racially discriminatory. The implication of this is that Democrats demand pro-Democratic gerrymandering as a constitutional necessity.


15 posted on 09/13/2017 3:42:21 AM PDT by sphinx
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Yep - if it isn’t rigged as an advantage to Blacks and other minorities, it is obviously biased against them....until a rare bit of common sense is victorious.


16 posted on 09/13/2017 3:47:00 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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Well, 35 certainly looks gerrymandered to keep a democrat, but 27? Not so much, IMHO

Look at C-34 just south of CD-27. Much of CD-34 used to be in CD-27, but after the 2010 census, population gains in the Rio Grande Valley meant the legislature had to add an additional predominantly Hispanic district somewhere. The legislature just took areas that hand been added to CD-27 after the 2000 census to bolster Solomon Ortiz' declining voter base in his home county of Nueces.

Ortiz thought he could never lose in the district drawn up after the 2000 reapportionment, because it had so many Hispanics. He was wrong. He hardly ever was seen anywhere in the district for the last several terms he served. He was spending more and more time in China where his political cronies had set up a consulting business to facilitate kickbacks to his family.

17 posted on 09/13/2017 6:03:51 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative (Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really out to get you.)
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To: Don W
Well, 35 certainly looks gerrymandered to keep a democrat, but 27? Not so much, IMHO

Look at C-34 just south of CD-27. Much of CD-34 used to be in CD-27, but after the 2010 census, population gains in the Rio Grande Valley meant the legislature had to add an additional predominantly Hispanic district somewhere. The legislature just took areas that hand been added to CD-27 after the 2000 census to bolster Solomon Ortiz' declining voter base in his home county of Nueces.

Ortiz thought he could never lose in the district drawn up after the 2000 reapportionment, because it had so many Hispanics. He was wrong. He hardly ever was seen anywhere in the district for the last several terms he served. He was spending more and more time in China where his political cronies had set up a consulting business to facilitate kickbacks to his family.

18 posted on 09/13/2017 6:03:52 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative (Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really out to get you.)
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Ours is a $1500 per month, 4br 2.5 bath 2500 sq ft brick in a western suburb of Houston. No flooding here. Pay attention to the topo maps and select a newer subdivision with correctly designed retention ponds (ours doubles as a park with playground, pavilions, soccer field, and baseball diamond. Running track around the street level perimeter) and appropriately designed storm sewers.


19 posted on 09/13/2017 6:35:54 AM PDT by Zippo44 (Liberal is just another word for poltroon.)
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Sounds nice... I would like that. A couple acres to have a pack of hounds running around would be nice too.

When finances get a little better and I’m done work. Few years....


20 posted on 09/13/2017 3:23:38 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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