DeLay Texas Redistricting Scheme Vacated by Supreme Court!

[HootieMcBoob]

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Supreme Court turned down a key element of a Republican strategy to tighten the party's control of the House of Representatives, possibly setting the stage for bitter litigation over the outcome of congressional elections on November 2.

The court refused Monday to uphold a Republican-engineered redistricting scheme in the state of Texas that is likely to win the party up to six additional House seats and sent back for review an earlier US federal court ruling that had found it legal.

"The judgment is vacated and the cases are remanded to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas for further consideration," the court order stated without further comment.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1521&ncid=703&e=10&u=/afp/20041019/pl_afp/us_vote_congress

Now let's get the fecker the hell out of congress on 11/02!

[aquart]

1. What? What just happened?

What happens to any local elected under the scheme?

[budkin]

2. Hell yes!!!

This is great news!!! Later Delay!!!

[Eloriel]

3. Great News!

Take that, DeLay, you fascist thug, you.

[burythehatchet]

7. hold off on the celebration

what this means is that its in limbo until SCOTUS knows whether dems or thugs will benefit after the election.

[AlCzervik]

4. Thanks for posting!

Hell yah!

[madrchsod]

5. to late for this election

but it was posted yesterday that the major Houston paper has backed delay`s opponent .it is a rather blistering attack on how delay does not represent his district

[Media_Lies_Daily]

6. Why is it too late for this election?

[burythehatchet]

8. The current campaigns have been run based on the newly

designed districts. Too late to undo that

[freetobegay]

9. This is great news!

[fob]

10. Does that mean the voting districts in Texas that people have been

directed to for this election now revert back to pre-Delay monkeying boundaries? That sounds like voting in Texas could be pretty effed up. A whole lot of bush*bots just may be disenfranchised, I bet all sorts of laws get scuttled to make sure those good ole boys are taken care of.

[wurzel]

11. I am totally confused.

Does the redistricting apply to this election? If it does Delay will get his way this time. Undoing it will be next to impossible. It may put the entire Texas election into question.

[crispini]

13. It has to apply.

We have two weeks, no WAY we could go back to our old districts now.

But WE'LL LIVE TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY! We'll get a change for the NEXT election.

[charlie]

14. No, but

"But legal experts said it was likely to give rise to legal challenges to congressional election results in Texas, a state that sends to Washington a whopping 32 members of the House of Representatives."

Looks like it's up to lawyers and Democrat's will to fight.

[wurzel]

15. But it does not affect the electoral vote?

Since the actual number of Congressmen didn't change?

[charlie]

16. Well, Texas did pick up 2 seats

in the 2000 reapportionment, if that's what you're asking.

Apparently the election will go forward with the newly gerrymandered districts, but the results can be challenged on the basis of the redistricting -- if I understand the article right. Let's hope the DNC for once shows at least the same grit and tenacity the GOP will in the coming battles.

[wurzel]

18. You have answered it. Thanks.

Democrats have to learn we don't live in democracy yet.

[tom_paine]

12. Unfortunately, DeLay and the Busheviks are doing their usual Soviet-style

behavior (Nazi-style, too)

They are essentially going to ignore the Supreme Court, continue the Fraudulent Election, appoint their reps as they choose, and dare anybody to stop them.

If they stop them, it's legal.

In the meantime, the Fraudulent Nazi...err...Bushevik representatives will be voting on bills and paying back their Bushevik Masters.

If we do not put a stop to this Totalitarian Methodology once and for all, then the Old American Republic is more dead and buried than it seems.

[wicket]

17. Fantastic news!!!!!

[GreenPartyVoter]

19. SCOTUS only counts when they rule the way the Admin wants, otherwise

they are just "librul judges legislatin' from the bench". :eyes: