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 Courts 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 Legislatures 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 cant 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 ...
It can take one appointment to do a mess of damage. This wasn’t one of those “Oops, I didn’t know how bad he’d be” types, this was a willful promotion of a liberal Democrat activist. Just one is all it takes. I do indeed find it remarkable that not a single Perry disciple in this thread finds it distressing in the least. They’ll stick with their phony idol no matter how horrid he is and continue to lie on his behalf about how “Conservative” he is.
http://www.supreme.courts.state.tx.us/court/justices.asp
Look at the Court, look at who was originally appointed by the Governor and then elected and re-elected. Your opinion of the Governor’s appointments is not shared by the voters.
No one knows whether or not Rodriquez would still be sitting on the Court with Jefferson and the others the Governor has appointed (I think all but Hecht, Wainright, and the guy who beat the guy who beat Rodriquez, Green.)
What has been asked and answered is why every living former Texas SC justice endorsed Smith’s opponent in 2004. The justices and the voters agreed with Perry.
You’re changing the subject and obfuscating as usual. It’s disturbing that your idol worship has blinded you to all reason and sanity. I’d have a more productive conversation with a block of drywall.
All hale our all mighty leftist Federal dictators telling SOME of us us how we must vote!
“”Why are federal judges deciding how we vote?”
Because they can. Usually you hear how Californians constantly have their votes overturned by activist courts, but it happens in all the states.”
This doesn’t happen in northern States. Only us Southern States are subject to the whimsical voting dictates of the Federal injustice system.
union of the unequal abused slaves. At least in Califorina you can point out their own State Cort is as crazy as their “Supreme” federal dictators, and often the one working to enable the same as a means of bypassing the legislator.
Texas did nothing to deserve the “special” treatment of our federal dictators except offend Yankee with how we choose to live in our own homes. Nobody cared how Yankees offended us with how they lived in their own homes.(killing babies by the millions).
Indeed they went so far as to impose their murderous ethics upon us!
Congratulations, Altura.
You are the 1000th Perrybot to make a silly post whining about someone pinging someone else to a thread about Perry.
Your prize, a BRAND NEW CAR!!!
http://www.4injured.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/small_car71.jpg
Perry appointed this liberal to TX Supreme Court and his soulmate GW Bush put him on the Federal bench. EPIC FAIL.
What was it that Perry, Cornyn and Hutchinson seemed to have against Steven Wayne Smith? (I honestly don’t know.) It appears to be some kind of dust-up between Perry and the Bushes.
As I wrote, Smith’s sin was beating Perry’s protege. For that, Perry had to destroy him. Yet one more reason why Perry’s candidacy for President is not only a non-starter, so is his intolerable tenure as Governor. Texas deserves a helluva lot better.
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