SG Files Amicus Brief in Texas Redistricting Case

I have uploaded the amicus brief here. The U.S. government brief supports the arguments of the state of Texas that the Texas re-redistricting did not violate section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The brief is interesting both for what it says (for example, that plaintiffs should not be able to make out a section 2 violation for failure to create an "influence district," even after Georgia v. Ashcroft), and what it does not (no mention of the controversy over the Section 5 preclearance of the districts, and no mention of the U.S.'s position on either the partisan gerrymandering claim of plaintiffs or the one-person, one vote mid-decade redistricting argument).

Posted by Rick Hasen at February 1, 2006 02:10 PM