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A statewide exit poll after the 2022 contest found Latino voters supported Democrats by a 2-to-1 margin, a result Democrats are seeking to replicate.
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A statewide exit poll after the 2022 contest found Latino voters supported Democrats by a 2-to-1 margin, a result Democrats are seeking to replicate.
When a 2-1 district court panel agreed last month, it set off the emergency applications to the Supreme Court.
A three-judge panel agreed in a 2-1 decision issued last month. The judges in the majority, David C. Joseph and Robert R. Summerhays, both of the U.S.
Tuesday’s 2-1 decision stops the state from using that new congressional map, finding the changes the state made to comply with the Voting Rights Act instead violated the Equal Protection Clause of the
Hise said the movement of the Black population out of the district represented a less than 1 percentage point change.
The officials also told the justices that the lower court made errors and "ran roughshod over the obvious political explanation for District 1 and the challenged line."
Republican-controlled legislature appealed the case, arguing in one of their briefs to the Supreme Court that the panel "nowhere mentioned other facts demonstrating that politics more readily explains District 1
“The Court finds that race was the predominant factor motivating the General Assembly’s adoption of Congressional District No. 1,” the ruling said.