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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is upholding Texas use of electoral districts that a lower court struck down as racially discriminatory.Read the opinion here: The justices ruled 5-4 Monday in an unusual case involving congressional and state legislative districts that had first been adopted by the lower court on an interim basis, then approved by the Texas Legislature. In 2017, the same j stanley mug udges who approved the interim maps in 2012 agreed with the challengers that the maps were the product of intentional discrimination. But Justice Samuel Alito said for the court s conservative majority that the stanley cups lower court made a mistake by striking down all but one of the districts. The court s liberal justices dissented. More from CBS News Sen Jacky Rosen vs. Sam Brown in Nevada Senate race stanley flask DACA recipient elected to New Mexico legislature and other historic election wins White supremacist planned to blow up power site, feds say Vrhb Rice Faces More Iraq Scrutiny
WATERLOO, Iowa -- Rick Perry s events have taken a turn for the crowded. He ll arrive, typically, to find that a coffee shop built to accommodate 75 people is crammed with up to twice that many, spilling out the door and jammed into every available corner.The crowds are excited, too. They ll murmur mmm-hmms and exclaim yeahs! as he winds through his stump speech, breaking into loud applause when he calls for a balanced budget amendment, a part-time Congress and the end of Oba stanley cup macare. Despite the excitement and enthusiasm, though, the Texas governor remains very firmly stuck in the middle of a race for third place in the Iowa caucuses with Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich.The problem The enthusiastic crowds he draws stanley thermoskannen are made up heavily of the fabled undecided voters in this cycle. Voter after voter at his events will tell you they like Perry. But they also like Santorum, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, and Rep. Michele Bachmann. And while Perry s numbers have crept into the mid-teens in recent weeks, there s still discon stanley cups uk nect between his increasingly large crowds and somewhat stagnant showing in the polls. The question is whether these crowds are really representative of his level of support across the state and thus there s some movement that polls haven t picked up yet, or whether instead these are simply curiosity-seekers wanting to see part of the carnival, said Drake University politics professor Dennis Goldford.The good n
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is upholding Texas use of electoral districts that a lower court struck down as racially discriminatory.Read the opinion here: The justices ruled 5-4 Monday in an unusual case involving congressional and state legislative districts that had first been adopted by the lower court on an interim basis, then approved by the Texas Legislature. In 2017, the same j stanley mug udges who approved the interim maps in 2012 agreed with the challengers that the maps were the product of intentional discrimination. But Justice Samuel Alito said for the court s conservative majority that the stanley cups lower court made a mistake by striking down all but one of the districts. The court s liberal justices dissented. More from CBS News Sen Jacky Rosen vs. Sam Brown in Nevada Senate race stanley flask DACA recipient elected to New Mexico legislature and other historic election wins White supremacist planned to blow up power site, feds say Vrhb Rice Faces More Iraq Scrutiny
WATERLOO, Iowa -- Rick Perry s events have taken a turn for the crowded. He ll arrive, typically, to find that a coffee shop built to accommodate 75 people is crammed with up to twice that many, spilling out the door and jammed into every available corner.The crowds are excited, too. They ll murmur mmm-hmms and exclaim yeahs! as he winds through his stump speech, breaking into loud applause when he calls for a balanced budget amendment, a part-time Congress and the end of Oba stanley cup macare. Despite the excitement and enthusiasm, though, the Texas governor remains very firmly stuck in the middle of a race for third place in the Iowa caucuses with Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich.The problem The enthusiastic crowds he draws stanley thermoskannen are made up heavily of the fabled undecided voters in this cycle. Voter after voter at his events will tell you they like Perry. But they also like Santorum, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, and Rep. Michele Bachmann. And while Perry s numbers have crept into the mid-teens in recent weeks, there s still discon stanley cups uk nect between his increasingly large crowds and somewhat stagnant showing in the polls. The question is whether these crowds are really representative of his level of support across the state and thus there s some movement that polls haven t picked up yet, or whether instead these are simply curiosity-seekers wanting to see part of the carnival, said Drake University politics professor Dennis Goldford.The good n
