Bush Administration Joins Texas to Defend Tom DeLay's Redistricting Map

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Bush Administration Joins Texas to Defend Redistricting Map
Friday, February 17, 2006

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,185268,00.html

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Bush administration's request to join Texas in defending a Republican-friendly congressional map engineered by Rep. Tom DeLay.

The administration will share time with Texas lawyers on March 1, when the court holds a special afternoon session to consider four appeals that stem from the bitter dispute over Texas congressional district boundaries.

Justices are considering whether the Republican-controlled Legislature acted purely for partisan gain in 2003 when it threw out district boundaries that had been used in the 2002 elections, and whether the new map violated a federal voting rights law.

The Justice Department approved the plan although staff lawyers concluded that it diluted minority voting rights. The Bush administration asked the high court last week for permission to participate in the case, supporting Texas.

[acmavm]

1. If anyone ever had any doubts about the reason for the redistricting

and whether or not is was right, legal, or fair, the situation should be pretty clear in their minds now. The bush** administration supports it. You know it's wrong.

A disclaimer: I understand all of us here know that.

[sam sarrha]

2. selected Democrat neighborhoods in El Paso became part of Austin thru a 3

foot wide lane down the middle of the freeway about 440 miles away.. looks pretty intensional to me

if anyone even has a question whether it was intentional or not is simply F'n stupid and a Republican

this is a good test to see how the Stacked courts fall in line..