Lower Court Holding
Decision of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
We are asked to examine again, in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Vieth v. Jubelirer (2004), the claims that the redistricting plan for the election of the 32 Members of Congress from Texas, adopted by the Texas Legislature in 2003, is unconstitutionally tainted by excessive partisan purpose. Ultimately, we will adhere to our earlier judgment that there is no basis for us to declare the plan invalid. We conclude that claims of excessive partisanship before us suffer from a lack of any measure of substantive fairness. The claims accept that some partisan motivation is inevitably present in the…
