June 28, 2006
Redistricting decision and Hammering on the roof
My housemate hired someone to reroof the house. At 8:00 this morning. So, real work is out of the question. I'm blogging instread, which qualifies as 'real work' only if I'm drunk.
And missing a hand.
SCOTUS has decided that some of the congressional redistricting done in 2004 violated Federal law. One boundary has to be redrawn so this does little to help us out. As for the assertion that you can only redistrict once a decade, the Court shit all over it.
On a different issue, the court ruled that state legislators may draw new maps as often as they like — not just once a decade as Texas Democrats claimed. That means Democratic and Republican state lawmakers can push through new maps anytime there is a power shift at a state capital.The Constitution says states must adjust their congressional district lines every 10 years to account for population shifts. In Texas the boundaries were redrawn twice after the 2000 census, first by a court, then by state lawmakers in a second round promoted by DeLay after Republicans took control.
That was acceptable, the justices said.
"We reject the statewide challenge to Texas redistricting as an unconstitutional political gerrymander," Kennedy wrote.
Now, to all of you who didn't see this coming, this is reality. There is no other appeal. We know the stakes. Let's get to work and give ourselves the ability to redistrict every Republican out of existence in 2007.
Posted by mcblogger at June 28, 2006 09:42 AM
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