2020 Texas Redistricting thread

[lfromnj]

It's the most Democratic seat in TX by raw net votes.

[lfromnj]

What exactly is the black VRA lawsuit?

They get 2 seats in Houston and 1 in Dallas. Neither of these are overpacks.

[lfromnj]

DOJ is suing Texas over its maps alleging that they violate Section 2 of the VRA.

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1467927358019710977?s=20

Alabama too, please, while we're at it

Given the composition of the courts, little to nothing is going to change here. The 5th circuit and obviously SCOTUS are a solid R majority.

Same with the 5th, to be fair. Those are just the two states where I think VRA violations would be easiest to argue

No its extremely hard to argue for a Gingles based VRA lawsuit in the RGV of all areas.

[lfromnj]

"And in El Paso and West Texas, the State eliminated a Latino opportunity district entirely -- reducing the number of districts in which Latinos make up a citizen voting-age population majority from six to five -- by overpopulating and packing majority-Latino districts and under-populating nearby majority-Anglo districts."

 Very serious arguments by esteemed Merrick Garland here.(This is mostly the fact that El Paso grew so little that it lost a district )

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/doj-sues-texas-over-redistricting-saying-the-new-maps-discriminate/ar-AARx15S?ocid=BingNewsSearch

[lfromnj]

Oh rereading the lawsuit articles it seems TX 15th was not mentioned. So at least they aren't dumb enough to bring a Gingles case for a district which only falls when Hispanics vote atleast 40% R.

[lfromnj]

FYI a portion of Houston's ugliness is actually to work with Jackson Lee/Al Green.