Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton told Newsmax Friday that the Supreme Court’s decision upholding Texas’ redrawn congressional map affirms that states can draw districts for partisan reasons — something he said Democrats have long done in states they control.
Paxton told Newsmax’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight” the ruling was not surprising, given the court’s previous decisions on redistricting.
The Supreme Court on Thursday granted Texas’ emergency request to block a lower federal court ruling that said the state’s map amounted to an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
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