April 24, 2018      5:05 PM

Supreme Court weighs jurisdictional issues in Texas redistricting case

Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court appeared more preoccupied this morning with the mechanics of the Texas redistricting appeal than the merits of a three-judge panel opinion that labeled 11 Texas House and Congressional districts “intentionally racially discriminatory.”

A three-judge panel last August declared districts in Central Texas, North Texas and Nueces county to be illegal. A letter from the panel gave Gov. Greg Abbott 72 hours to decide whether to call lawmakers back into session or defer to the court. Instead, Abbott appealed to the Supreme Court, completely bypassing the three-judge panel before it issued a final judgment.

By Kimberly Reeves

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