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Supreme Court Steps In to Review Texas Redistricting

The Supreme Court on Friday evening agreed to hear a tangle of lawsuits over how
elections in Texas next year for its state legislature and for Congress are to
be conducted.

The court stayed orders from a special three-judge court in San Antonio, Texas,
which had issued electoral maps late last month that seemed to help Democrats
and Hispanic voters.

The justices ordered the parties to file briefs on a brisk schedule, and they
will hear arguments on Jan. 9. The Supreme Court must move quickly if next
year’s primary and general elections are to proceed in an orderly way.

Friday’s order did not say what election officials in Texas are meant to do in
the meantime. Primaries are scheduled for March, and candidates have been filing
under the court-drawn maps.

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