Advising the court on redistricting

Last Friday, all parties to the Texas redistricting lawsuit submitted their advisories to the San Antonio court, in which they told the court what they think it should do once the Supreme Court has rendered a decision on the Voting Rights Act. You can see what they all had to say there, or you can read Texas Redistricting’s summaries of their positions. Bottom line, there’s a chance that the 2014 primaries could be delayed, and there’s a chance that some or all of the 2012 interim maps could be made permanent. On the subject of the latter, as we know there have been bills filed to make it happen, and we now know that AG Greg Abbott supports that position. We won’t know for several months what the San Antonio court will do, but now we know what the parties in the litigation want them to do. Check it out.

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