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Posted on 12/29/2011 7:11:16 PM PST by CedarDave
A state district judge has adopted a redistricting plan that will establish slightly different boundaries for New Mexico’s three congressional districts.
Judge James Hall issued his ruling Thursday afternoon.
Hall is adopting a plan that makes the fewest changes to the existing districts. It has the support of Gov. Susana Martinez, other Republicans and a group of Democrats that include Rep. Brian Egolf of Santa Fe.
(Excerpt) Read more at abqjournal.com ...
Anglos are a minority in New Mexico (40.5%) with Hispanic (46.3%) and the remainder mostly Native-Americans. It is important that we have at least one Republican representative in Congress and Steve has been quite good at standing up to the RINO’s.
NM will most likely vote for Obama next year as Gary Johnson running as a libertarian will take some percentage of the Republican vote.
Hopefully the prospect of Hussein putting another Kagan on the USSC will make people think twice.
What if Martinez is on the ticket, as I predict she will be?
Then the ticket will be formidable, to say the least. Both Susana and her husband have a lifetime of law enforcement experience behind them, and she has fought tooth and nail to stop illegals from getting drivers' licenses.
It is the biggest no brainer on the face of the earth
1. Conservative
2. Latin
3. Woman
4. Fmr US Attorney
5. Avid Gun owner
but what will Holder say?
Judges, whether liberal or conservative, have no authority to usurp the authority of the legislature. If they do, they must be impeached and removed. The Founders clearly gave the legislatures supreme authority about what is constitutional or not.
Redistricting landed in court after the Legislature failed to approve a plan for new congressional districts and the governor vetoed Democratic-backed proposals for legislative and Public Regulation Commission districts. Trials on legislative and PRC redistricting will be held after the judge wraps up the congressional case, which is expected to last several days this week.
Trial starts on NM redistricting
Good background summary at the link.
I am actually a plaintiff in this lawsuit. I was asked if I would be a plaintiff and I agreed and have met a few times with the attorneys who are working (with little chance of being paid for the work) to try and minimize damage. NM is such a one-party state that even little victories are important. LULAC was playing the race card big time. It’s quite a country where you can come illegally, join together as a group with others who are citizens and demand that we gerrymander a district to represent your ethnicity. IMHO that is true racism. I received an email from Hank tonight that the least change plan is a go with the judge but there are still a few details to be worked out.
It is disappointing that Gary Johnson’s is going for a 3rd party run. We had 2 terms of Clinton thanks to Ross Perot. BTW, I really do not believe Susana will leave the Governor’s post to run on a national ticket at least until she has completed one full term.
It appears that Democrats will vote for whomever is their candidate whether they like him/her or not. Republicans tend to get on their high horses they call ‘principles’ and can find every reason to not support our nominee. I would argue that ANY candidate would be a far better POTUS than the person now holding that office. If for no other reason that to keep the Supreme Court sane it is critical Obama be defeated.
****The Founders clearly gave the legislatures supreme authority about what is constitutional or not.****
****The legislature failed to act so it went to the courts****
So how does this having Standing with the courts work then? What are the rules? If it is against the Constitution for Justices to rule Constitutionality, how can the court allow Standing in this case?
Am I asking the wrong question because Standing is not related to this? Is there another term that would or should apply?
I hope New Mexico got a better deal than we Arizonans got with our “redistricting” fiasco. Somehow, Barack the Kenyan had one of his team of commie ‘RAT commandos infiltrate our joke of a redistricting commission. Arizonans really got screwed. The communists will own this state now. Brewer tried to stop it once the error was recognized but some fag judge told all of us Arizonans to take a hike.
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