TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Sep 13, 2017
In a 5-4 split, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed federal court decisions requiring the redrawing of certain districts in Texas because of racial gerrymandering, the ABA Journal reports. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan voted to deny the stay. Texas argued that the maps weren’t discriminatory because the court had made them.