Volma Overton, and Ernesto Calderon, Plaintiffs-Intervenors-Appellants v. City of Austin, and Black Citizens Task Force, Defendant-Intervenor-Appellee

I concur with our panel’s result and reasoning as far as they go, but I would also have addressed the trial court’s analysis of the first two Thornburg factors: the size and geographical compactness of the minority groups, and the political cohesiveness between these two racial groups. In light of our court’s recent decision that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act applies to judicial elections, Chisom v. Edwards, 839 F.2d 1056 (5th Cir.1988), together with the advent of another Census-related round of legislative redistricting, we would be wise to resolve issues that are likely to recur.…