Federal Court upholds Texas Redistricting

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[lentulusgracchus]

Unlike blacks, Mexicans will respond to any party that serves their interests.

I think that statement applies to Central Americans more. Tejano (Mexican) Democrats tend to line up with the 'Rats 70% of the time, despite the fact that northern Mexicans (Nortenos) have values more proximate to conservative GOP'ers. PRI-influenced Mexicans tend to vote down-the-line with whoever their neighborhood or district Party jefe says to vote for.

Dubya was encouraged a few years ago by the 40% split he got in Texas from the Nortenos and Central Americans, but I think he is overoptimistic about being able to drive much further into that overhead resistance.

The southern Mexicans who abound in California are even more hidebound, from what California FReepers have told me.

Cubans and Puerto Ricans and South Americans are another story.

[Coop]

I imagine the Dems will now appeal this ruling to the World Court. :-)

[harpu]

Let us pray he's gone!

[harpu]

"I understand Kay Bailey Hutchison was against this redistricting. Do you know why?"

YEP...she's a closet demonRAT - a RINO and a worthless, spineless bitch.

[outlawcam]

Ward said he would have enjoined the map, instructed the Legislature on how to fix it

Aaaaagh! ANOTHER JUSTICE RUN AMOK!

Seriously, where in the world does he think the Federal or State Constitutions GRANT HIM THAT POWER?!

[No Blue States]

"I understand Kay Bailey Hutchison was against this redistricting. Do you know why?"

She must have thought minority votes were more important than those who elected her. She lost my support.

[sboyd]

This post is to everyone. GA newspapers are reporting that the courts are going to hear a Republican plea that the new GA congressional lines are unconstitutional. Hopefully, the court will make GA redraw the lines. We have a Republican governor and state senate. We have one new district that looks like an inner tube around Atlanta.

[outlawcam]

She must have thought minority votes were more important than those who elected her. She lost my support.

Maybe, but if so, she would have been wrong that this redrawing disenfranchises anybody. Everybody can still vote. Gerrymandering along racial lines only increases the likelihood of racial division. Racial division is exactly the opposite direction in which we should want to go. Kay lost my support long ago, so this changes nothing, with me.

[No Blue States]

I like the line used lately that not only democrats can represent minorities. So true. And the judges seemed to echo that idea.

It will be sweet if the SCOTUS passes on the appeal.

[outlawcam]

And the judges seemed to echo that idea.

All but one.

[No Blue States]

The dissenting Rat isnt ONE man, at most half a man..so He doesnt count. ;o

[Theodore R.]

"I understand Kay Bailey Hutchison was against this redistricting. Do you know why?"

K.B. Hutchison is a "Don't rock the boat" Republican! After all, she wins big every time she is on the ballot, and all she does is one photo op after another.

[Torie]

The court opinion is insanely complex, because the law is. Few I am sure really understand all the ins and outs. The dissent opinion was only about the Bonilla district. He contended that under SCOTUS law, otherwise impermissible stripping away of apparent near minority actual control of a district, cannot be cleansed by creating an offsetting minority district, which was the premise of the GOP plan. The theory is that the minority voters which are screwed, in this case in the Bonilla district, remain screwed even if minority voters elsewhere have their impact enhanced.

The dissent may well be right, but the SCOTUS precedent was about a case in NC, where, to the extent I can understand it, a compact minority district was ignored, to create an erose one, and the court was focused on the disadvantaged minority voters in the compact area. Here of course, the old Bonilla district is itself rather artifical, and by no means compact. The old Bonilla district joined some Hispanic voters in San Antonio with others far away in Laredo.

The court was painfully aware that the pending Pennsylvania SCOTUS case could change everything. That is where the action was, and still is.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Thanks for the analysis.

[BOBTHENAILER]

Looks like Frost escapes the law but ousting him would be a penalty he richly deserves.

No kidding....he needs to go.

[ForGod'sSake]

The Texas Democrats New Mascot ...

Hereyago Meek. Make it so.

FGS

[MeekOneGOP]

Oh, wow !! That is great !

Here is what I finally came up with yesterday ...

The Texas Dodocrat:

Remap could create an endangered species -
Texas' white Democratic Reps struggle for survival

I think I'll 'borrow your pic and post the above, and then post something like:

Texas Redistricting starts a National Trend !

[the post your pic HERE!]

[MeekOneGOP]

theN post your pic ...

[Dog Gone]

This is some pretty funny stuff.

[MeekOneGOP]

hehe ! Yeah, the Dodocrats at the National Level. Gotta love it ! :O)