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The Supreme Court reinstated Texas’ new congressional gerrymander on Thursday by a 6–3 vote, thus all but ensuring that Republicans will pick up five additional seats in the House of Representatives next year. A federal court struck down the new map last month, finding that Texas had unconstitutionally discriminated against Black and Hispanic voters in its quest for partisan advantage. Over the three liberals’ dissent, however, SCOTUS halted the lower court’s order in an unsigned, shadow docket decision. Its (scant) reasoning all but invites other red states to gerrymander racial minorities into oblivion without fear of judicial rebuke and to do so just prior

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