Well, they are not wasting any time on this one.

A federal panel gave both sides in Texas' redistricting fight two weeks to propose fixes to a congressional district whose borders were ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.

U.S. District Judge T. John Ward said proposed changes to the map are due by July 14. Oral arguments were scheduled for Aug. 3 in Austin.

This should be interesting -- because the likely result is the loss of one Hispanic-influence district, because by removing 100,000 Hispanic Democrats from CD23 and placing them in CD25, the GOP-controlled legislature created an additional Hispanic-majority district and the Supreme Court has effectively ordered them back into CD23.

The real question is how many districts will have to be redrawn, how major the changes are, and whether or not there will be new primaries required in some or all of them.

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