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 ...
Go get em !!!!!!!!!!
GO PERRY
:)
My coon hound doesn't make Bush look like a rocket scientist.
What was frizzy’s final vote count over Dan’s, was is three or four? ha ha
Nice try at spin. Too bad it isn’t supported by the comment in context:
“For Washington to tell a local school district that you cannot have prayer and a time of prayer in school is, I think, offensive to most Americans,” Perry said. “I trust the people of the states to make those decisions. I trust those independent school districts to make those decisions better than eight unelected, and frankly unaccountable judges,” Perry said.
Yep. Which is precisely why I don't get enthused about Perry.
Thanks for making my point for me, I know you didn't mean to, but, hey, you get tied up in your own spin so much that you don't know what is coming or going.
Maybe Perry has learned the only way he can get any airplay or time at the mic is to flub something?
That’s pure conjecture. Now give me your overall opinion on Gov. Perry’s many judicial appointments.
Whereas Newt obviously has prepared long and hard for this run.
OOPS ! ( but he mean't 8 + 1)
;)
OOPS ! ( but he mean't 8 + 1)
;)
Time will tell, although I suspect you’ll be happily surprised within a month.
Perry also didn't get Sotomayor's name right. Wanna come up with something for that?
Perry got the number wrong and then someone came up with the rationalization for it.
LOL
I bet you had to check the spelling.
Uh, no, CW. Unlike Perry, I do know the names of the Supremes. And I know the two hacks that Obama nominated.
Do you always go around trashing the political know-how of other long-term FReepers? Although I disagree with your tactics, I do not question your basic political knowledge. Yet you see fit to question mine.
You must have some kind of frown lines dirtboy.
You really are a slimeball, CW. Go piss up a rope.
LOL! DB, that egg looks good on your face. :) Most people have trouble remembering and pronouncing Justice Sotomayor’s name, myself included.
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