Texas v. United States

Summary

Justice Scalia delivered the unanimous opinion affirming the dismissal of Texas’s declaratory-judgment action as unripe. Texas sought a ruling that appointing masters or management teams to oversee underperforming school districts would not require preclearance under § 5 of the Voting Rights Act. The Court held that any appointments depended on contingent future events, that the legal questions would be better resolved in a concrete application, and that postponing review imposed no substantial hardship on Texas. The Court did not decide whether particular appointments would require preclearance. There were no separate opinions.