Texas Voting Rights Case Confounds U.S. High Court Justices
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U.S. Supreme Court justices grappled with minority voting rights in Texas’s congressional and state legislative districts, trying to find a quick answer to a legal conundrum against the backdrop of looming deadlines.
During arguments today in Washington, the justices gave no clear indication as to how, or when, they will rule. The case tests the power of judges to redraw election maps and the strength of a central provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.