Court mostly upholds DeLay’s partisan redistricting.
By on Jun 28th, 2006 at 10:51 am
Court mostly upholds DeLay’s partisan redistricting.
The Supreme Court has “upheld most of the Texas congressional map engineered by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.” The Court did throw out an effort to shift 100,000 Hispanics “out of a district represented by a Republican incumbent and into a new, oddly shaped district,” finding the move violated the Voting Rights Act. More analysis here.
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Redistrict this Tom.
June 28th, 2006 at 11:00 amWhy am I not surprised? Now wait until Bush has his Unitary-Authority-in- time-of -war-without-end challenged and see what happens at the Supreme Court
There must be 50 Ways To Dump The Dubya
June 28th, 2006 at 11:05 amClearly a Republican victory. Face it, they have sneakier and more audacious tactics than Democrats and aren’t afraid to employ them. Their motto is something like: “Act now; determine legality later.”
June 28th, 2006 at 11:07 amCourt mostly upholds DeLay’s partisan redistricting.
Then the SC is “mostly” filled with hack judges.
June 28th, 2006 at 11:12 amThe corruption is so bad in America, that this is just another proof of it!
June 28th, 2006 at 11:13 amOf course the court upheld it. They are partisan just like congress. We live in a totalitarian state disguised as a democracy. Until at least one branch of government is wrestled from the hands of the GOP we will have no say in our government or our destiny.
June 28th, 2006 at 11:13 amHa! Ha! Try winning elections next time with ideas that more people will like!
June 28th, 2006 at 11:15 amSo maybe now that the Voting Rights Act is set to expire they should draw the districts again that way they can keep the district that SCOTUS is saying violated the Voting Rights Act.
June 28th, 2006 at 11:22 amDid anyone think that the SCOTUS would vote against BushCo in any significant manner?
June 28th, 2006 at 11:24 amBig win for the Republicans, Tom DeLay, and the Constitution….
“We reject the statewide challenge to Texas redistricting as an unconstitutional political gerrymander,” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote.
June 28th, 2006 at 11:38 amExley you made a mistake, it should read “big win for the repulicans, and Tom Delay.”
June 28th, 2006 at 11:46 amTheir motto is something like: “Act now; determine legality later.â€
Comment by Badmoodman — June 28, 2006 @ 11:07 am
Yeah a take off from the phrase “It is easier to gain forgiveness then permission!”
June 28th, 2006 at 11:46 amBy the Constitution, each state is given the authority to draw federal district lines. The only caveat is that those lines comply with the VRA of 64.
Both parties participate in political gerrymandering (the obvious result being the often-hilarious shape of most districts). In this case, the 2002 election was conducting using lines draw originally following the 1990 Census – they were obviously in need of change to reflect changing state demographics. When they tried to draw them after th 2000 Census, a politically divided state legislature failed to come to a consensus. A 3 judge panel used the 1990 lines and added the 2 newly apportioned districts.
What exactly is the left’s big complaint here? I don’t see a good one.
June 28th, 2006 at 11:48 amHa! Ha! Try winning elections next time with ideas that more people will like!
Comment by Randy
Randy? Boy your mama must have hated your ass giving you a shitty name like that.
June 28th, 2006 at 11:49 amFor the background on the Texas case, see:
June 28th, 2006 at 11:53 am“GOP Scandals Converge in Texas Redistricting Case.”
Randy, you forget that the right stole the election. Go back to spelling your name with an “i”, like the ho you must be…
June 28th, 2006 at 12:03 pmThose damn “Activist Judges”!!!!!
June 28th, 2006 at 12:05 pmBy the way, the MSM are playing this like the Supreme Court heroically stood up to DeLay’s gerrymandering when, in fact, they gave him almost everything he wanted. What a bunch of venal swine.
June 28th, 2006 at 12:32 pm#18…I agree…This was a big big win for Delay and the media is desperately trying to spin it as some type of defeat for him.
June 28th, 2006 at 1:18 pmWhat’s all the hubbub? All you fever swamp Mo0b@+5 claim that we neocon fascist’s racists steal election anyway, so why do you care how the lines are drawn? BTW how is Ronnnie Earl doing with that indictment? I wonder how spun up the LLL will get after a Delay acquittal? I guess this is just another defeat for he conservatives. A couple more and the Demoncrats will cease to exist! Vote Diebold, vote often!
June 28th, 2006 at 2:13 pm“big win for Delay”
DeLay can dance all day in jail……..with the other inmates. Dancing may be preferable, as sitting may be a bit painful.
June 28th, 2006 at 2:18 pmPretty much the same thing just happened in Ohio. But then I’m not sure what the issue was there. We all know how fair the elections are in Ohio!
June 28th, 2006 at 2:20 pmI’m burnin’ a flag just for you retard republiscab, whooopeeeee
June 28th, 2006 at 2:22 pmI think Ronnnie Earl is doing just fine, just ask ex-Congressman who resigned in disgrace and shame Tom DeLay. Rather than face the truth and deal with the shitstorm he created for himself and fellow GOP sock puppets, DeLay took the low road and retreated–or should I say “Cut and Run?” DeLay is the poster boy for the sleazy, corrupt, manipulative and factually challenged losers who call themselves “conservatives.” DeLay is a huge reason the GOP will be tough brand to sell in November.
June 28th, 2006 at 2:24 pmPersonally, I think we ought to have an open (as in Free, as in beer) source algorithm for redefining districts once every census. I think it ought to be automated and absolutely consistantly fair, verified by both sides and the american public.
Thats the only way to fix this shit.
June 28th, 2006 at 2:47 pmEvery judge concurred at some level…scalia and thomas with ginsburg and breyer. The background in the opinion shows that the new districts for the most part undo gerrymandering that was done back in the early 90’s.
Partisan hackery at its best…gotta love this site
June 28th, 2006 at 4:09 pmRRS – What the hell is this? Mo0b@+5
June 28th, 2006 at 4:35 pmAre you sure you’re aver the age of 11?
And you’re missing the “n.”
Interesting that this is how our democracy works…the politician gets to pick the voters, as opposed to the voters selecting the politician. Our notion of democracy has increasingly become a delusion.
June 28th, 2006 at 4:54 pmgood news for america = bad news for the libs
June 29th, 2006 at 9:42 am