US EditionChief Justice John Roberts enabled Texas’ gambit to gerrymander the state for the GOP
TEXAS, AUG 4 – The Supreme Court ruled federal courts lack authority to oversee partisan redistricting, allowing Texas Republicans to redraw maps to strengthen their congressional majority, six years after the key decision.
- Chief Justice John Roberts, in a five-four ruling, declared federal judges could not review partisan redistricting, enabling Texas’s new map to oust Democrats.
- Six years ago, the Supreme Court lifted a federal guardrail in Rucho v. Common Cause, with Roberts ruling judges lack authority to review partisan redistricting.
- Chief Justice John Roberts, supported by Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, led the conservative majority against workable standards, with Justice Elena Kagan dissenting.
- In response, Democratic legislators fled to Illinois to block the redistricting plan, CNN’s Joan Biskupic said the standoff stems from Roberts’s five-four opinion barring judicial review of partisan maps.
- Next year’s midterm elections could see presidential meddling based on this ruling, as Roberts’s opinion gave Trump a green light for influence, prompting California liberals to plan counterattacks.
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The blatant partisan redistribution that is taking place in Texas, with Republicans trying to entrench themselves in power and Democrats considering a counteroffensive in the so-called blue states, received the green light from the Supreme Court...
By Joan Biskupic, CNN The blatant partisan redistricting underway in Texas, with Republicans trying to entrench themselves in power and Democrats considering a counteroffensive in so-called blue states, was given the green light by the U.S. Supreme Court six years ago. Chief Justice John Roberts, in an opinion for the 5-4 court, ruled that federal judges could not review extreme partisan gerrymandering of electoral districts to determine whether…
John Roberts to blame for GOP's 'brazen' power grab in Texas: Supreme Court expert
Blame for the partisan showdown over Texas redistricting was laid at the feet of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts by a longtime legal observer.Democratic legislators took refuge in Illinois to deprive Republicans of a quorum to ram through a congressional redistricting plan that would give the GOP a massive election advantage, and CNN judicial correspondent Joan Biskupic said the standoff is the result of a 5-4 opinion authored by the ch…
Chief Justice John Roberts enabled Texas’ gambit to gerrymander the state for the GOP
The brazen partisan redistricting underway in Texas, with Republicans attempting to entrench themselves in office and Democrats weighing a counter-offensive in blue states, was greenlit by the US Supreme Court six years ago.
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