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June 18, 2018      5:39 PM

SCOTUS takes another pass on partisan gerrymandering, leave Texas decision ahead

Given the ultimate outcome in the Wisconsin case, the Supreme Court might end up hung up on the jurisdiction issue in the Texas case

The U.S. Supreme Court discarded two of the pending redistricting cases this morning, leaving the issue of partisan gerrymandering unresolved and the fate of the Texas maps still murky.

The cases for Wisconsin and Maryland were partisan gerrymandering cases, one for each major party.

But instead of validating the idea of redistricting, the court punted, sending the Wisconsin case back to the lower court to reconsider standing and deferring to a federal court on the lines drawn in the single district challenged in the Maryland case.

By Kimberly Reeves

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