High Court May Take Up Texas Redistricting - Link

[laureloak]

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The Supreme Court will consider Travis County, Texas, et al. v. Rick Perry, Governor of Texas, et al., along with several other related Texas redistricting cases, during its private conference on Friday. They are among dozens of cases the Court will review at the conference to determine if they should be added to the Court's docket for argument.
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http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1130332860486

[electropop]

1. Having both DeLay and his work products on trial

...at the same time will prove most enjoyable.

:popcorn:

[wryter2000]

2. OMG

That could be so sweet. :popcorn:

[Justyce]

3. I hope our county is included

we were screwed in that deal -- wish they'd just overturn the redistricting for the entire state rather than county by county.

[Geoff R. Casavant]

9. It's included

Travis County in this case will be a nominal plaintiff, but the case, if taken up and decided, will affect the whole state.

[LonelyLRLiberal]

4. If the Texas redistricting isn't gerrymandering, I don't know what is.

A friend in Austin told me her district is a narrow strip that goes 300 miles to somewhere in east Texas.

[Texas_Kat]

5. Yep,

mine goes from Austin to the Mexico border.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

7. Hell, the rethugs SAID they wanted more rethugs.

During the redistricting "debate," they flat out said several times "Texas is Republican, so we're going to redistrict so that more Republicans are elected."

You're supposed to act like it's just a funny coincidence that the districts look like salamanders.

The published motives of the redistricters should be evidence enough for it to be thrown out.

[LonelyLRLiberal]

8. They do have gall, don't they? nm

[melissinha]

6. two congressmen share Austin

We have two congressmen that share Austin ... its ridiculous..... I want Lloyd Doggett to be my rep not Lamar Smith you pigs!


Its so outright political and nonsensical.