just like Rush hurls his callous rhetoric.

on the endangered species list, and protected at all costs.

We love our Congressman Lloyd Doggett and we want to keep him.

He isn't my Congress-critter, but he is definitely one of the best that Texas has in D.C. currently.

I was hoping for a decision from the DC court soon. This request for briefing means that the Court is looking hard at CD25 and that there will be no decision this week.

I prefer that the court takes its time and get this right. I really do not care if we have primaries on May 29 and would not mind seeing the primaries moved to June 26

Here is a good article on this latest development in this case http://www.statesman.com/news/texas-politics/court-inquires-about-austin-congressional-district-2221423.html If the court decides that the CD 25 is a protected district, then we are looking at a June 26 primary

f the D.C. court issues an opinion saying that District 25 deserves protection, it could throw Texas' election schedule into turmoil again. That's because the San Antonio court adopted the Legislature's boundaries for District 25 in drawing the congressional map to be used for this year's elections.

Assuming the D.C. court will allow enough time to produce new maps by March 31, the San Antonio court could redraw new boundaries for District 25 and the surrounding districts, said Michael Li, a redistricting expert and author of a Texas redistricting blog. But because of tight timetables, any changes would force the court to push back the primary until June 29, almost four months after the original date of March 6.

But if the D.C. court does not allow for new maps to be drawn by March 31, then the primary would have to be pushed back to July with a runoff in September — a move that would be problematic because of general election deadlines, Li said.

Side with us please, please, please! Make CD-25 a protected district.

The Travis County plaintiffs are trying to use this request for briefing to encourage the San Antonio Court to reconsider CD25 http://txredistricting.org/post/18916346498/travis-county-plaintiffs-suggest-the-san-antonio-court

In a filing late yesterday, the Travis County plaintiffs told the San Antonio court that the D.C. court’s request for briefing on CD-25 might have “potential bearing” on San Antonio court’s final application of the “not insubstantial” test.

Although they did not say so directly, the filing hinted that the D.C. court’s request for additional briefing on the Texas Latino Redistricting Task Force’s claim that Anglos dominate the Democratic primary in CD-25 suggested that the court did not find the claim supported by evidence - or at least that the DC court was wrestling with the issue.

I have a feeling that the Travis County plaintiffs will be responding to the request of DC court and will attempt to convince the DC Court to protect CD 25 and reject splitting Travis County between five different congressional districts. I am still hoping that the DC Court will delay matters and not pre-clear the interim maps. I am hoping that the May 29 primary is push back to June 26.

BTW, according to Romney's math, he needs a good percentage of the Texas delegates to go over 50% which is really sad for Romney

I thought the latest polls showed that Texas wing nuts were solidly behind santorum? romeny isn't going to win Texas he's not a conservative enough wing nut.

The briefs have been filed. You can read the briefs by going to this link http://txredistricting.org/post/19255485203/briefs-on-cd-25-and-the-anglo-domination-issue The brief from the State of Texas and the Latino task force are weak and argue that CD25 was not protected. The other briefs have some good back up as to why Doggett's seat should be protected.

Hopefully, the DC court will take some action on this issue.

It is very unusual to file yet another reply brief at this stage but the group who backed Abbott's plan to sell out CD25 and Lloyd Doggett filed yet another brief yesterday concerning CD25 http://txredistricting.org/post/20084699684/latino-task-force-offers-more-briefing-on-cd-25 Basically, this group of traitors is taking the position that the other Democrats are wrong and Lloyd Doggett's district should not be protected

With no preclearance decision having yet been rendered, the Texas Latino Redistricting Task Force asked the D.C. court today for permission to file one last brief on CD-25.

The filings said that the Travis County intervenors had “mischaracterized - or misunderstood - the data on CD 25” and had “introduced no evidence showing that CD 25 is anything other than an Anglo majority district in which Anglo voter preferences drive the outcome of both the [Democratic] Primary and the General Election.”

In particular, the Task Force criticized the Travis County intervenors for what it said was their “focus almost exclusively on voting patterns in Travis County.” They said that approach was problematic “ecause most of Travis County’s population, and voters, are located outside benchmark CD 25 [and therefore] Travis County election returns are primarily based on the votes cast by voters living outside [the district].”

They also criticized the Travis County intervenors’ reliance on 2004 Democratic primary results (in which Lloyd Doggett defeated a Latina opponent), noting that the 2004 primary took place in a very differently configured version of CD-25 that ran to the U.S./Mexico border before the district was redrawn by courts in 2006.

I have been hoping that the DC circuit would issue an opinion this week. This latest filing may slow down the process.

After reading the briefs, I still think that CD25 should have been protected. The fact that Cuellar's group filed yet another brief shows that they are worried about this issue. Cuellar is a traitor to the party and to the rights of other Hispanics.

Who are they? Besides Cuellar - who else is in this group? I see MALDEF is the attorney so disappointing.