Supreme Court Rejects Texas Redistricting Map

The Supreme Court instructed the district court that overturned and
redrew the Texas Legislature’s redistricting map to try again, The New
York Times reports. In an unsigned unanimous decision, the Justices said
“the lower court had not paid enough deference to the Legislature’s
choices and had improperly substituted its own values for those of
elected officials.”

“The justices acted just 11 days after hearing
arguments in the case. Primaries in Texas had already been moved back to
April. For those primaries to proceed, officials there said, an answer
from the courts was needed by Feb. 1… As many as four House seats hang
in the balance, experts in election administration say.”