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 ...
Guess the Daily Mail UK was pretty spot on when it said: "But among Texas conservatives I have hardly ever heard a kind word said on Perry's behalf. Among the most common epithets are: egocentric, treacherous, hypocritical, shallow, unprincipled, and vindictive.
I’m truly touched that you think I’m talented enough, as a lifelong resident of Tennessee, that I can or could’ve magically worked in some government office in Austin many hundreds and hundreds of miles away. The extent of my experience in Austin is travelling through it on I-35 at 55 mph en route to San Antonio in March, 1990.
(You do not advance conservatism by becoming more liberal.)
And those are just his supporters.
The most conservative ones in the race, and that does not include Perry, Romney or Newt.
PING to fieldmarshaldj’s great post.
We have no way of knowing what conversation we’d be having if Stephen Wayne Smith hadn’t beaten Rodriquez in the next election.
We do know that the Dems left the State twice in 2003 to kill a quorum and avoid votes on Redistricting in the House and then the Senate.
Wonder what would be happening if the Dems hadn’t repeatedly blocked so many of Bush’s appointments.
Unfortunately, every liberal judge gets a federal appointment as soon as the Dems get in office.
He'd still have been appointed to the federal bench with Rick Perry's active endorsement. The issue is that Rick Perry, your idol, should NEVER have appointed the liberal Democrat Xavier Rodriguez to ANY judicial capacity in the first place. Let me reminds folks once again... Rodriguez NEVER was elected to office. Not to the TX Supreme Court OR the Federal Bench. He is the ultimate in unaccountable leftist Judicial Activists and owes his entire career to Rick Perry. The same Rick Perry whose sycophants are whining about that activism for whom HE HIMSELF is to blame !
Thank you for finally answering. I was thinking about a FReeper who worked for the state of Texas (short stint). It came up on a thread about the TCC (if I recall correctly). I should go back and look to see which FReeper told me about their history of working for the state of Texas. It was your Tennessee locale that seemed to be in that mix, as the FReeper who mentioned it was no longer in Texas.
Of course, the Perry supporters will all chime in about how great the Texas economy is and how that is proof of Perry's conservatism. But Perry as a weak executive doesn't have a lot of opportunity to impact the Texas economy one way or the other.
I just don't see Perry and his supporters understanding the quantum jump required to successfully run for president, let alone be an effective president. To this day, he shows time and time again he hasn't done his homework - just the other day, he showed he doesn't even know the number of Supreme Court justices, something most kids learn in junior high. He has shown me no indication that he is doing the preparation required for the office he is seeking.
This is CW’s M.O. - when she can’t address a critique of Perry, she will instead try to impugn the poster making the critique. It’s pretty slimy, but par for the course for an unprincipled hack who would sell herself out to the likes of Rudy in 2008.
Horsesh*t.
You really are stretching yourself into a big fat pretzel on this.
76 posted on Sun Oct 9 06:47:34 2011 by fieldmarshaldj (Rick Perry has more red flags than a May Day Parade)
“Nobody disagrees here about taking out Slick Willard, but it is Perry who poses the most immediate threat of hoodwinking the base into believing he is one of us when he is anything but. Once Perry is eliminated as a viable candidate, we can then focus on Willard who has been static in the polls for months. Coalescing around Cain is of paramount importance at this point so we can move forward en masse and eliminate Willard once and for all.
“http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2790104/posts?q=1&;page=51#76
The man Rick Perry appointed Texas Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson -- a good example of the caliber and character of leaders Gov. Perry surrounds himself with – unlike Obama who appoints and defends appointments such as U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
And next time you quote field, use proper etiquette and ping him, ok? You should know better.
This is too funny. Perry haters have been dancing around here for a while saying Perry is finished. Now I see them saying we have to take Perry out for who NEWT? The BIGGEST RINO of all the candidates. Now I know I’m not in Kansas any more. Hardcore operatives alive and well at FR.
Perry took HIMSELF out of the race. He's polling behind Huntsman and Paul now. You can cry over some grandiose scheme to go after your boy, but truth be told, Perry is where he deserves to be.
Nothing like campaign hacks, supporting a single digit candidate, going around in direct violation of the 11th Commandment to try and tear down the candidate upholding such.
Thank you "Miss Manners."
Ping to Post 54.
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