Redistricting in Texas has been an issue of significant controversy since 2000 (

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Redistricting in Texas has been an issue of significant controversy since 2000 ( and even before but not as dramatic and consequential). First read some of the issues involved in 2000 and then read the issues involved in 2010 redistricting controversies including court cases responding to all questions concerning both separate but in many ways very connected cases, incidents and processes. Discuss, after conducting your own research on the issues involved, that decision and the process in the U.S. Supreme Court. REMEMBER that the decisions and opinions of the Supreme Court change . Should the last ( following the 2010 census) redistricting of Texas congressional seats by the Texas legislature have been found in violation of the constitution and civil rights laws?

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To the extent district court exceeded its mission to draw interim maps that do not violate the constitution or voting rights act , that substituated its own concept of "the collective public good" for the taxas legislature's determination of which policies serve the interest of the citizen of taxas" the courterred the opinion courted from lower courts order.

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