Supreme Court sides with Texas in redistricting case

Published June 25, 2018 2:19pm ET



The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld all but one of the Texas congressional and statehouse districts that a lower court said were drawn with racially discriminatory intent.

The closely divided court ruled 5-4 along ideological lines in the case. Justices Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Chief Justice John Roberts were in the majority, and the four liberal justices dissented.

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