Kagan issues scathing dissent in Texas redistricting case

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Thursday warned in her dissenting opinion that the Supreme Court’s approval of Texas’s congressional map could violate voters’ rights enshrined in the Constitution. In her dissent with fellow liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, Kagan wrote that the high court intervened “based on its perusal, over a…