Houston Public Media by Alexa Ura July 3, 2018
A San Antonio-based panel of judges ordered the state’s maps should remain unchanged despite outstanding issues with House District 90, which the U.S. Supreme Court said was illegally drawn.
The 2018 elections will move forward without any tweaks to Texas’ political maps.
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling to uphold all but one of the state’s political districts, a three-judge federal panel in San Antonio on Tuesday ordered that the state’s maps should stay in place for this year’s elections despite outstanding issues with House District 90.
The Tarrant County-based district was the sole exception the Supreme Court made in OK’ing the state’s maps last week. That district, which is occupied by Democratic state Rep. Ramon Romero, was deemed an impermissible racial gerrymander because lawmakers illegally used race as the predominant factor in deciding its boundaries.
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