DeLay's Texas Voting Map Raises Partisanship Issue at Top Court

DeLay's Texas Voting Map Raises Partisanship Issue at Top Court
March 1 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Supreme Court, tackling partisan politics in an election year, will decide whether it should throw out Texas congressional districts engineered by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.

The court hears two hours of arguments today on challenges to the redistricting map that helped Republicans gain five U.S. House seats in the 2004 election. Republicans, who took control of the state Legislature a year earlier, departed from the customary practice of redistricting only once after each 10-year census and enacted a new map even though the lines had been redrawn in 2001.

In essence, the court will decide ``whether there's a constitutionally enforceable limit on partisan greed in the redistricting process,'' said Nathaniel Persily, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Voters who challenged the new districts are asking the Supreme Court to rule that the Constitution's equal-protection guarantee bars states from redrawing the map in mid-decade when the only purpose is partisan gain.

The high court has never ruled a voting map unconstitutional on grounds of excessive partisanship.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aoUVct6vA4p8&refer=us

info you dig up!
I'm particularly interested in da bugman as he is my rep, but hopefully not for long!
Will you post this in the TX forum? Pleeze?

I hope he gets his hat handed to him!

I have no say in the primary but this is all brand new for me, so sort of exciting.

your experiences ... watching it as physically close as you are. I can't get the feeling from way up here in Massachusetts.

I want to see him cry. I want to see him turn red faced with defeat. I want to see him slink away from the mic when the lights go down and they aren't interested in what he has to say anymore unless it contains the word "guilty" in some way.

I want him to slip into oblivion and never be given a moments notice again except when he is up for parole denial.

Can you tell that I don't care for him much? :rofl:

:hug: I will live the excitement through you, if you don't mind. ;)

:evilgrin: I've seen one lawn sign - ugh - but nothing else. I'll keep you posted!

because you just bring up news that ring my chimes, i.e., TX! Thank you so much for doing that! I'm glad you posted, and please, when anything pertains to TX, trust me, the TX forum wants to know!:hug:

So much political rough stuff, and wierdness has been going on there, and it ALL affects the rest of the country.

I'm afraid to hope for justice, as it's been so hard to find, but there are a LOT of Texas politicians who really have it coming to them!



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http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/07/30_delay.html

:yourock:

PARTISAN GREED, indeed!

vote on this. Could be partisan greed isn't reserved for Delay and his ilk.

What ever happened with the use of the HLS jet to retrieve the dems that were on walkabout? Was he ever censured for that?

Bushco ever does will be deemed illegal.

the culture of corruption meme is catching fire in headlines such as this.