Warning: Inside baseball post: Last night I posted a question about when we will see the DC Court in the Texas redistricting case.  I received a few responses, including one from a longtime reader (critical of section 5) who notes that DOJ has taken the position that at least aspects of the Interim maps ordered by the three-judge San Antonio court actually must be submitted for preclearance by the counties themselves. See here, here, and here. The reader adds: “I have never believed that the interim maps would need to be precleared, especially after the SA court issued them with no order compelling Texas to submit them for preclearance. I have heard nothing about  whether the counties are actually submitting their precinct boundary changes for preclearance. “