The US Supreme Court issued a decision which should warn the WackyWoozyWimmins of the Wisconsin Supreme Court about their redistricting crusade.
The warning? DON'T.
A divided Supreme Court on Thursday came to the rescue of Texas Republicans, allowing next year’s elections to be held under the state’s congressional redistricting plan favorable to the GOP and pushed by President Donald Trump despite a lower-court ruling that the map likely discriminates on the basis of race.
With conservative justices in the majority, the court acted on an emergency request from Texas for quick action because qualifying in the new districts already has begun, with primary elections in March....
... The justices cast doubt on the lower-court finding that race played a role in the new map, saying in an unsigned statement that Texas lawmakers had “avowedly partisan goals.”...
IOW, redistricting is just fine if it is partisan. Too bad if there may be "racial" effects, too--because after all, the US Constitution requires that we be color-blind, but not free of partisan inclinations.
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The Texas case was SCOTUS turning over a federal appellate court. As a rule, SCOTUS won't touch a state's ruling.
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