Posted on 11/24/2011 12:46:32 PM PST by Brices Crossroads
A former Texas Supreme Court justice whose appointment by Gov. Rick Perry led to accusations of racial pandering was part of a Federal District Court decision Thursday to issue a new voting district map for Texas that will likely overturn the map proposed by the Texas Legislature and is designed to create ethnic voting districts for Latinos.
U.S. District Court Judge Xavier Rodriguez joined with another Latino justice from the three-justice federal panel — Clinton-appointee Judge Orlando Garcia — to issue the racially-drawn map, which has not yet been given final approval. Lawyers for the Democrats and Republicans were given the opportunity to comment on the map Friday, and the parties now await the court’s final decision.
The Houston Chronicle reports that the new state House and Senate district lines could cost Republicans six seats in the Texas Legislature in 2012, and Fox News reports that the GOP does not believe it will hold its 101-49 supermajority in the Texas House if the map was formally adopted.
Rodriguez, once a casual Democrat, was plucked from obscurity by Gov. Perry to ascend to the Texas Supreme Court in 2001. Conservatives worked to successfully defeat him in a 2002 primary that the Weekly Standard reported was “all about race.” To compensate for his defeat, Rodriguez was appointed to the Federal District Court for the Western District of Texas by then-Perry ally President George W. Bush. (RELATED: Conservative ire with Perry runs deep, reflects racial politics)
The third member of the three judge panel — Judge Jerry E. Smith of New Orleans — posted a map proposal different from that put forth by Garcia and Rodriguez. His proposal was much closer to that of the legislature’s.
The three judges prepared the maps because a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. — which is ruling on whether the Texas Legislature’s original redistricting violated the U.S. Voting Rights Act — is not likely to reach a decision in time for the 2012 elections.
The release of the Rodriguez-Garcia map was met with swift condemnation from Lone Star Republicans.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/20/rick-perry-backed-judge-proposes-latino-districts-infuriates-gop/#ixzz1eeokqQDS
I’ll get to that after next cold one. Or two.
The only ones peddling this garbage is Paul supporters.
Paul started it before Perry announced trying to keep him out of the race.
It didn’t work then and it will not work now.
So blame them all. And blame the republicans in the senate who didn’t vote to oppose him.
Or just realize that no matter who you pick as a judge, sometimes they aren’t going to rule the way you want them to politically, and it will always give people a chance to attack everybody who ever had anything to do with that judge.
Nobody’s perfect. Except maybe Gingrich, if the polls are to be believed. Or Cain, if we just travel back in time a month.
Boy is that right. Remember Souter? Hardly the Conserv Bush 1 said he was.
The Feds came up with the racial minority trash in the ‘60’s, due to Democrat abuse against Black voters.
I’m not surprised to see the Paulers are pushing this trash - they like the perennial candidate Stephen Smith, and use every chance to put the Governor down for opposing him back in 2002.
In case you’re not up to the research: http://www.texastribune.org/texas-courts/texas-supreme-court/smith-eyes-return/ Rodriquez might know something about racial profiling, from the way that Stephen Wayne Smith ran his 2002 campaign against the now-Federal judge.
Smith had lost in 1998. He had campaigned against the Governor’s choice from day one and then went after Rodriquez in 2002. There were repercussions when Smith lost in 2004, after being opposed by every living former member of the State’s Supreme Court of Texas, in favor of his opponent. Smith helped hang himself by sending out a letter criticizing the law school that Green had attended.
Smith lost yet again in 2006, when he opposed Don Willet,
one of my favorites. Unfortunately, Smith has declared that he’s once again the perennial candidate, running for the State Supreme Court, going against Don Willet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Wayne_Smith
Ricardo Perry's support of the law breaking illegal aliens and Mexicans in general over American citizens and his block-headed gaff calling us conservatives Heartless because we choose to support the Rule of Law and and not lawlessness as he does is the gift that just keeps on giving week after week.
WRONG-Smith opposes racial politics and got wide support from conservative activists.
http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/22/conservative-ire-with-perry-runs-deep-reflects-racial-politics/
Willett is bought & paid for SMITH is not take a look:
http://info.tpj.org/reports/supremes06/supremes06.pdf
SMITH IS FIGHTING INSTATE TUITION FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS...Willett is largely supported by......? Well read the report.
WRONG AGAIN: NOT A PAULITE...I am a member of Act for America....read about them.
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