Posted on 12/10/2011 2:12:04 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Supreme Court to settle election district scuffle in Texas as a map signed by Rick Perry is accused of diluting minority voting power
Texas’ March primary will likely be delayed after the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday blocked the use of state legislative and congressional district maps that were drawn by federal judges.
The court issued a brief order late Friday that applies to electoral maps drawn by federal judges in San Antonio for the Texas Legislature and Congress that would have ensured minorities made up the majority in three additional Texas congressional districts.
The justices said they will hear arguments on January 9th, likely delaying the scheduled March voting primaries that would use the maps, to the end of May.
The judges issued the new maps for the 2012 election in Texas after a lawsuit was filed in San Antonio over redistricting maps drawn by the GOP-led Legislature.
The maps were to remain in place until the lawsuit was resolved.
The Supreme Court’s order brings to a halt filing for legislative and congressional primary elections that began November 28.
....In the second of two separate court cases in the redistricting fight, a federal court in Washington has refused to approve the Legislature’s redistricting plan without a trial, agreeing with the Justice Department that there was sufficient evidence to question whether it hurt minority representation.
Like other states with a history of racial discrimination, Texas can’t implement new maps or other changes to voting practices without federal approval under the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
The state asked a court in Washington to sign off on the maps, but those judges refused.
That case is continuing......
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I don't like the precedent of delaying elections.
I don't recall that elections were delayed the last time Texas went through this.
Wouldn't it be better to let the elections continue using the current districts, and wait until the 2014 elections to implement the new maps?
-PJ
So kiss my pasty rump, hack.
I guess you just swung your purse at me.
LOL
Ah, but you didn’t know about Abington School District v. Schempp. That’s okay, I didn’t either. :)
I have no trouble remembering the name of the two hacks that Obama nominated. And I would think Perry, running for POTUS, would have taken an hour to learn the members of the court and their basic leanings so he could hold something remotely resembling an informed discussion of such. But, then again, he really doesn’t seem to think he has to do his homework to run for president.
It's a big mess and my district is in flux because of it.
I won’t bother responding to your sorry ass any more on this thread, CW. You ain’t worth the keystrokes. You have aptly shown you have no limits to how low you will sink.
ROFL
-PJ
LOL
Good one...LOL
That’s ok, dirtboy. Sparing with dissenters is the only way their threads see any traffic anyway.
It is getting very tiresome trying to educate some on these threads.
:)
Good for you DB. Now go brush up on Abington School District v. Schempp, that’s in your state, right?
Boy, things can just turn on a dime on Perry threads, huh? :)
How about that.
“As a senator, {KKK member and traveling speaker] Black filibustered an anti-lynching bill.” — Wikipedia.
Hugo Black, the man who gave us the “Wall of Separation”. He so hated Catholics that he invented that wall out of whole cloth in Everson v. Ewing Township NJ Board of Education, which not only invented the poisoned wall, and rewrote basic Founding Era history, but also ended up greatly empowering the NEA and teachers unions, and the fulsome miserable failures of American Public School Education all to the account of who could not be bused to their chosen school.
Yup. Xavier Rodriguez. That paragon of Conservative jurisprudence. Oh, wait...
What’s amazing is that you’re more offended at the slight to La Raza Rick’s vanity than the fact his leftist judicial appointment menaces are wreaking havoc on the entirety of the upcoming elections.
Xavier Rodriguez would not “still” be on the court. The people found out pretty fast that he was a liberal Democrat and La Raza type racist. A true Rick Perry protege.
As in “liar, liar, pants on fire !”
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