What To Do About the Texas Redistricting Case?

The Supreme Court’s decision over the constitutionality of section 5 and the Court’s failure to take action on Texas’s appeal in its section 5 redistricting case has put the three-judge federal court in San Antonio hearing the section 2 challenge to Texas’s redistricting in a bind. It is hard to know what, if anything, that court should do while it waits on SCOTUS.  It has now issued this very detailed order trying to make sense of what might come next depending upon what SCOTUS does.

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