"The Republicans' plan to gerrymander their way to holding on to the House took a blow this week when a three-judge panel struck down Texas's new congressional redistricting map. The map, ordered by President Trump, sought to create five additional congressional seats for the GOP. US District Judge Jeffery Brown-a hardcore Republican appointed by Trump-struck down the map on the grounds that it was racially gerrymandered."
"The essential takeaway is that Harmeet Dhillon-Trump's wholly unqualified pick to head the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division-irrevocably screwed up the case. She flatly misread a prior court opinion (either through maliciousness or gross incompetence) and ordered Texas to redistrict based on race. Brown argues that Texas is allowed to gerrymander for any reason other than race. Texas could have said, "We are moving districts around to give Republicans an insurmountable edge in the election" and that would have been fine."
"The Supreme Court has crowned itself the only court in the country that counts. The Texas map helps Republicans, and helping Republicans is the only thing the six Republicans on the Supreme Court care about. Judge Jerry Smith-a Ronald Reagan appointee-wrote a truly unhinged 101-page dissent from Brown's opinion. The dude starts his dissent quoting Bette Davis, says that the majority opinion was designed to help George Soros,"
A three-judge panel struck down Texas's new congressional redistricting map as racially gerrymandered. The map, ordered by President Trump, sought to create five additional GOP seats. The Department of Justice under Harmeet Dhillon misread precedent and directed redistricting based on race, which the court found unlawful. The opinion noted Texas could lawfully gerrymander for partisan advantage but not on racial grounds. The Supreme Court's conservative majority and a forceful dissent by Judge Jerry Smith signal a likely appellate conflict and raise the prospect of a politically driven reversal.
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