Dewhurst can change Senate's two-thirds rule, Justice Department says Ruling comes day before Republicans and Democrats head to federal court AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Tuesday, August 26, 2003 As the Legislature ended its second special session on congressional redistricting today, all the players in the partisan standoff geared up to take their battle to a Laredo courtroom on Wednesday. But within hours of the session's end, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a ruling that raised new questions about whether the courts will have any authority to settle the dispute. The ruling found that the Senate did not need pre-clearance from the...