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This is not getting 1/100th the attention that the New York ruling is, but there was also a case yesterday in which a map was allowed to stand. The county of Galveston redrew its county commissioner maps to make it harder for minority commissioners to be elected, lawsuits were filed, and both a Trump-appointed judge and then the Fifth Circuit en banc said that the old maps should be used until the case plays itself out. Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled that, and said the new maps should be used for now.
Obviously, it will be a while until this reaches final resolution. However, the central issue in the case is an important one, and SCOTUS' ruling indicates which direction the justices may be leaning. The Court has affirmed that districts where one particularly ethnic group is in the majority cannot be gerrymandered out of existence. However, the districts in Galveston were majority-minority, meaning that no ethnic group is in the majority, but that non-white voters outnumber white voters.
This is of interest because this is the exact workaround that Georgia just used in order to try to avoid making its maps more equitable. If SCOTUS ultimately sustains the new Galveston map, then Georgia will presumably also triumph, while other red states will get some ideas about how to legally get around the Voting Rights Act. (Z)