Conservative challengers lose key Supreme Court voting rights case

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Source: CNN

The Supreme Court handed conservative challengers a loss Monday in a key voting rights case.

In a unanimous result, the court said a state can draw legislative districts based on total population. At issue in the case was the "one person, one vote" principle dating back to the 1960s, when the court held that state legislative districts must be drawn so they are equal in population.

Jutices never specified whether that doctrine applied to the general population or to the voting population. All states currently draw lines based on general population, but two conservative plaintiffs from Texas argued their vote was being diluted in relation to other districts that had the same number of people but fewer voters.

The Obama administration and state of Texas opposed the lawsuit. Civil rights groups watched the case carefully, fearful that if the court were to rule with the plaintiffs, it could potentially shift power from urban areas -- districts that tend to include a higher percentage of individuals not eligible to vote such as non-citizens, released felons and children -- to rural areas that are more likely to favor Republicans.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/04/politics/conservatives-lose-key-supreme-court-voting-rights-case/index.html

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Not even a 4-4 tie. But unanimous.

Dear GOP,

[red dog 1]

1. K&R...Thanks for posting

It's hard to believe that the Obama Administration and the state of Texas agreed on anything

[Spitfire of ATJ]

2. If they had won there would have been celebratory gunfire in Texas.

[47of74]

3. Hell all over the south too.

[mopinko]

4. i think the more 4-4 ruling that come out of the court,

the more they will be willing to look at anyone who might even possibly be persuadable.
(yes, i know this ruling was unanimous. but there have been and will be more 4-4 cases)