The U.S. Supreme Court announced yesterday that it refuses to hear a political gerrymandering case that would have decided whether Republican legislators in North Carolina violated the Constitution when they redrew voting maps.
They passed the case back to a trial court for further examination. However, the Supreme Court did pass down a ruling on a that may have implications for North Carolina. They found lawmakers in Texas did not intentionally discriminate against African-American and Latino voters when they redrew their district lines.
Joining host Frank Stasio to sort through the latest is an Edward and Ellen Schwarzman Professor of Law at Duke University and co-director of the .
