Supreme Court taking up Texas politics case

Supreme Court taking up Texas politics case

In a Texas case challenging the traditional view of “one person, one vote,” the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today on the way states and localities draw district lines.

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The prospect of lines drawn that would discount large Latino populations has upended Democratic lawmakers.

“This legal challenge would do great harm to the state of Texas and potentially to other states that have very young populations and a significant number of noncitizen residents,” U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Texas, told the Star-Telegram.

“For Tarrant County in particular, this could mean that over 100,000 noncitizens would no longer be counted when assigning representation, according to a 2015 Migration Policy Institute report, and 27 percent of the county would be discounted due to be their age, according to the 2014 U.S. Census.”