High court throws out Texas election map

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10. That's unlikely.

It was a unanimous opinion.

Whenever you get all nine of these justices to agree on something... you can't assume that it's a wink/nod to the right wing.

The Texas court apparently went beyond identifying and correcting the districts which they thought violated the standards... and instead acted as if they were empowered to draw ALL of the districts based on their own notion of "the public good".

They don't have that authority.


BTW - I don't think that this means that they can't go right back and fix the districts that are in violation of some standard. They just can't draw the entire state.