Supreme Court dismisses challenge to Texas state legislative maps

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed an obstacle to Texas state legal maps that critics state deliberately water down minority ballot power and lead to an unlawful racial gerrymander.

At the center of the conflict is Senate District 10, which is focused in Fort Worth in Tarrant County. Oppositions argued the map was redrawn to make it more Republican and “more Anglo.”.

A panel of 3 judges on a district court performed 4 days of hearings and held that although the brand-new state Senate map might “disproportionately impact minority citizens” in Tarrant County, and although the legislature might have offered “pretextual factors” for its redistricting choices, the oppositions might indicate no proof showing that the legislature’s “real intent was racial.”.

Ballot rights groups asked the Supreme Court to use up the case, arguing that the district court set expensive a requirement when it needed the oppositions to reveal that race predominated in the redrawing. They state all that they needed to reveal was that race was an aspect when drawing the maps.

In a different matter prior to the court this term, the justices are facing a case that might make it harder for minority citizens to challenge supposed gerrymandering and might continue the court’s deconstruction of the Ballot Rights Act.