Texas: CD35, CD27 found unconstitutional; "intentional racial discrimination"

[Brittain33]

Farenthold's district and Doggett's district. Nothing in Metroplex.

Potential for VRA "bail-in" because of findings on racial discrimination.

Thread on @politicswolf on Twitter.

[Brittain33]

Jump to p. 104 here for specific findings.

http://redistricting.lls.edu/files/TX/TX%20perry%2020170815%20order.pdf

No discrimination/unconstitutional mapping found in Houston area or Metroplex because of lack of cohesion between African-American and Hispanic voters.

TX-23 passes muster as a Hispanic opportunity district. But we'll see what remedying TX-35 does here.

[Brittain33]

So are they literally just making districts for one term and then new ones AGAIN?

Two terms, but yeah it's a travesty how long this Court took to work through this case.

[Brittain33]

What's the ethnic / racial makeup of the 200,000+ voters in the Travis County portion of TX-35 that would move to TX-27? Predominantly Anglo like the remainder of TX-27, I would guess.

[Brittain33]

The portion of Travis in TX-35 is mostly Hispanics.

Interesting. It seems dumping those voters into Farenthold's Anglo district just as it sheds Hispanic voters in Nueces would make this map DOA when it hits the courts.