Off the Kuff: “Texas’ newly redrawn congressional map is officially cleared for use, after the U.S. Supreme Court formally overturned a lower court’s ruling Monday. Texas took up this unusual mid-decade redistricting effort after President Trump pushed the state to help shore up the GOP’s narrow majority.
Judge Jeff Brown had written in a 160-page opinion that there was ‘substantial evidence’ that this new map was racially gerrymandered. Monday’s ruling fell along the same ideological lines — Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson again dissented.
‘Either we get a federal law that strictly limits redistricting shenanigans — and comes with a side order of court reform to prevent the current corrupt SCOTUS from batting it down — or this is how we live now,’ wrote Charles Kuffner.”