Supreme Court to hear redistricting challenge

"The court will hear challenges from Democrats and minority groups who say that the mid-decade redistricting unlawfully diluted the strength of minority voters, injected undue partisanship into the congressional map and violated the concept of one person, one vote by drawing district lines with outdated census data." - Washington Post

Well, the Supreme Court agrees that there might be evidence of a pattern of discrimination and a violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in Texas' redistricting plan. The redistricting created districts that elected 6 Republicans where Democrats had been elected. It did this by creating election districts that had fewer minorities (who tend to vote Democrat) than the original election map. This and the use of 3-year old census data are the points on which the Supreme Court will hear the case. It seems likely that they will overturn the redistricting plan, which Justice Department lawyers had ruled discriminatory (that was over-ruled within the department).