Don’t expect new voting district boundaries to be drawn in time for the mid-term elections, despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s agreement Monday to consider the constitutionality of extreme partisan redistricting—and despite a quickly approaching trial on the drawing of congressional maps in Texas.
“Someone would have to file a case today and I don’t think that’s going to happen. The court is not going to be able to rule early enough to have an effect,” said Tom Wolf of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, who focuses on redistricting issues and represents the civil rights plaintiffs in the pending Texas redistricting case.
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