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ABBOTT v. PEREZ
Opinion of the Court
the basis of uncertainty. In any event, if even the District
Court remains unsure how to draw these districts to comply with §2 (after six years of litigation, almost a dozen
trials, and numerous opinions), the Legislature surely had
the “ ‘broad discretion’ ” to comply as it reasonably saw fit
in 2013, LULAC, supra, at 429.
The dissent charges us with ignoring the District
Court’s “ ‘intensely local appraisal” ’ of Nueces County,
post, at 43, but almost none of the “findings” that the
District Court made with respect to HD32 and HD34
referred to present local conditions, and none cast any
significant light on the question whether another opportunity district is possible at the present time. For instance, what the dissent describes as Texas’s “long ‘history
of voting-related discrimination,’ ” ibid., in no way undermines—or even has any logical bearing on—the conclusions reached by MALC’s expert about whether Latino
voters would have a real opportunity to elect the candidates of their choice if the county was divided into two
districts with narrow majorities of Latino citizens of voting
age. The same is true with respect to the District Court’s
findings regarding racially polarized voting in the county
and Latinos’ “continuing pattern of disadvantage relative
to” non-Latinos. 267 F. Supp. 3d, at 779 (internal quotation marks omitted). Perhaps recognizing as much, both
the District Court and the dissent point to the anticipated
future growth in the percentage of eligible voters of Latino
descent, but the districts now at issue would not necessarily be used beyond 2020, after which time the 2020 census
would likely require redistricting once again.
B
HD90 is a district in Tarrant County that, unlike the
other districts at issue in this appeal, was not copied from
the District Court’s interim plans. Instead, the 2013
Legislature substantially modified the district developed
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