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Federal Judges Dismiss ALL Claims of Democratic Senators (Texas Redistricting)
Quorum Report ^ | 09.12.2003

Posted on 09/12/2003 1:28:04 PM PDT by SolidSupplySide

THREE JUDGE PANEL POURS OUT TEXAS DEMOCRATIC SENATORS

Laredo court dismisses all of their claims


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: redistricting; suicidewatch
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To: Mr. Lucky
Yeah, but she's such a babe...
21 posted on 09/12/2003 1:41:52 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee (Just because I don't think like you doesn't mean I don't think for myself)
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To: SolidSupplySide
THey messed with Texas!!! Being natives, you would think they would have known better. Hee,hee,hee-good carma.
22 posted on 09/12/2003 1:42:07 PM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (Picture all nine Dimmercrat Clowndidates exiting a Yugo clown car at each of their gigs..cmpg. stops)
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To: SolidSupplySide; MeeknMing; Flyer
PING >>>>>
23 posted on 09/12/2003 1:42:14 PM PDT by PetroniDE (Kitty Is My Master - I Do What She Says)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Think they'll try another Chicken Run, again...? :)

Thanks to Whitmire's decision to break rank and attend, there will be a quorum in the Senate.

I just hope the Sargent-at-Arms is keeping close tabs on a few of the HOUSE Dims in case their feet get itchy ;-).

24 posted on 09/12/2003 1:42:52 PM PDT by BoringGuy
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To: SolidSupplySide
Make them pay their fines.
25 posted on 09/12/2003 1:44:05 PM PDT by lormand (Dead people vote DemocRAT)
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To: SolidSupplySide
Federal Judges Dismiss ALL Claims of Democratic Senators

Tom Daschle: "I am saddened. Deeply saddened."

26 posted on 09/12/2003 1:45:06 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
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To: SolidSupplySide
This court outcome is no surprise to me. My experience (mostly in federal courts) is that most judges will obey and follow the law, regardless of their political opinions. And if the trial courts fail to do this, they will usually be straightened out by the appeals courts.

There are exceptions to this rule, including several on the US Supreme Court. But I note that ALL of the federal judges have been appointed because they were either wired into the Republican structure, or the Democrat one. Almost all were politically active before being appointed to the bench. And NONE of them were third-party or independent in their pre-court politics.

Therefore, absent the tendency of most judges to obey the law, I would never have won most of my federal cases which (with only two exceptions) for independent or third-party candidates. (The exceptions were Jerry Brown, Democrat, and George Bush, Republican.)

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "Paying the Wrong Piper," discussion thread on FR. Article is also on ChronWatch.

27 posted on 09/12/2003 1:45:25 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob (Everyone talks about Congress; I am doing something about it.)
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To: SolidSupplySide
From Fox News, comes this earlier story of what's going on here:
28 posted on 09/12/2003 1:45:28 PM PDT by ThePythonicCow (Mooo !!!!)
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To: netmilsmom
What was the court case and are these Dems still in a hotel in NM?

The case was whether TX redistricting violated the Voter's Rights Act, charging that consolidating or otherwise restricting what are now minority districts would weaken minority voices.

One Democrat returned from NM, allowing for a quorum, so the remaining are leaving NM in order to fight on the Senate floor. Many had already left NM, choosing to do a national promotional (fundraising) tour for the DNC, claiming that the TX redistricting was really a Bush porwer grab.

-PJ

29 posted on 09/12/2003 1:46:11 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (It's not safe yet to vote Democrat.)
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To: SolidSupplySide
hilarious news story on the Runaway Dems by Steven Colbert of The Daily Show on Comedy Central
30 posted on 09/12/2003 1:46:24 PM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (Inconceivable!)
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To: netmilsmom
Do people really live in MI? I thought that they just existed there. Anyway, the chicken Dems went to one of their tame federal judges to try to get a minority rules the majority established in the Texas Senate. Even the tame judge didn't want to touch it so he put together a three judge panel which shot down the dems. They wanted the feds to set the senate rules instead of letting the senate establish their own rules. Now they have a whole weekend to cry on each others shoulders and complain to the media.
31 posted on 09/12/2003 1:47:04 PM PDT by FreePaul
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To: camle
Bill Clinton doing a "background check" into a Texas Democrat:


32 posted on 09/12/2003 1:47:49 PM PDT by weegee
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
No doubt. I'm betting they are already headed for the border.
33 posted on 09/12/2003 1:48:47 PM PDT by theDentist (Liberals can sugarcoat sh** all they want. I'm not biting.)
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To: SolidSupplySide
And what do the rodents have to say to that?!


34 posted on 09/12/2003 1:50:34 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Go ahead, make my day and re-state the obvious! Again!)
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To: lormand
Make them pay their own hotel bills. Those should be higher than the fines.
35 posted on 09/12/2003 1:52:08 PM PDT by mewzilla
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To: Political Junkie Too
Well it is a "Republican power grab". The question is "is this any different than what has happened for the past 100 years when the Democrats had the majority in Texas Congress and got to draw the district lines". I've seem some lying liar Democrats say that this is being done in the middle of the decade. BS. The 2000 census results are known in 2001. Since 2003 the Democrats have fought this 3 times by stalling and then twice leaving the state. I think that these lines were planned in 2002. In the fall of 2001 there was a national catastrophe. We have a long way to go to 2006 (or even 2005).

The lines that are in effect now are from the 1990 census. Who is being unfair to the voters of Texas?

36 posted on 09/12/2003 1:53:42 PM PDT by weegee
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To: SolidSupplySide; MeeknMing
Yee Haaaa!!!!!When election time is here,I hope we can herd em up and move em out.
37 posted on 09/12/2003 1:55:13 PM PDT by MEG33
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To: weegee
I agree. The only reason that it is a "grab" is that the Democrats won't peacefully relinquish power.

As for the fact that the courts redistricted instead of the legislature, I reject the notion that the court redistricting should stand because the legislature failed to do its job. If that were to be the failsafe, then a minority party would never agree to a new map, knowing that the courts will intervene. The only way to force the minority to deal in good faith is to take away the permanency of a court-instilled solution.

-PJ

38 posted on 09/12/2003 2:00:08 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (It's not safe yet to vote Democrat.)
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To: BoringGuy
"...there will be a quorum in the Senate..."

Hope nobody dies this weekend!
39 posted on 09/12/2003 2:08:25 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
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To: ken5050; Dog Gone; MeeknMing; COB1
fyi
40 posted on 09/12/2003 2:08:35 PM PDT by deport
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