It is interesting this happened the day after the redistricting that was the proximate result of the 2002 elections won with the TAB mailers was declared mostly constitutional:
AUSTIN — A state district judge threw out a felony indictment against the Texas Association of Business today, ruling that the group’s ads in the 2002 legislative elections [...]

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By virtue of the fact that he literally seems to end up commenting on every story on the sun, here’s another gem from CD-05 Congressman Jeb Hensarling. This time he’s talking about the importation of U.S. beef to Japan in a DMN story on the President meeting with a Japanese leader:
“While I am optimistic [...]

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First it was Louie Gohmert & company opposing the reauthorization of the VRA. Then, John Carter said there was no more racism in Texas. Now, Texas Congressman Mac Thornberry says he wants to eleminate minority Congressional districts all together.
Someone please call Woolworth’s and order these men the white sheets they would have been wearing had [...]

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I fully expected that papers outside Texas might have a harsher take on the Supreme Court’s Texas Redistricting decision than papers in Texas might; after all, members of the legislature that approve the DeLay-backed plan are frequently before the ed boards of the major Texas dailies and I figured some may be content to use [...]

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Via AP:
Dr. David Smith, the former chancellor of Texas Tech University and former Texas health commissioner, has been appointed president of Upstate Medical University in New York, state university officials there have announced.
Yeah. That’s really about it for that story. The lead pretty much says it all.
My lord, is this a slow news day after [...]

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Make your reservations now.
In the Pink Texas is the first one out with news that there will likely be a Special Session on Congressional Redistricting to fix CD-23.
Given that Democrats stood against the map last time, will we stand as unified again, in an election year where Republicans will no doubt use any “walkouts” against [...]

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Here is a .pdf of the high court’s ruling. I will dissect this when I have time.
Justice Kennedy wrote the opinion; Scalia wrote a concurrence relating to part of the opinion with Chief Justice Roberts, Alito & Thomas.
Chief Justice Roberts wrote his own concurrence, too, joined by Alito.
Breyer concurred in part and dissented in part.
Souter [...]

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State Rep. Aaron Pena’s prediction from yesterday proved correct, via the Chron:
The U.S. Supreme Court today upheld almost all of Texas’ Republican-friendly U.S. House election district map.
By a 5-4 vote, the court said the 23rd District in Southwest Texas, represented by Republican Henry Bonilla, was unconstitutional because its design violated the rights of some Hispanic [...]

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In 2002, when the Texas Association of Businesses was bragging about “blowing the doors off” the election by electing right-wing Republicans to the Texas House, one of the candidates most indebeted to them was State Representative Gene Seman (R-Corpus Christi), Eddie at The Red State notes.
Now, we have the opportunity to help blow the doors [...]

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Here’s your From The Blogs for Tuesday, June 27, 2006.
In anticipation of the much-awaited decision on Texas Congressional Redistricting from the U.S. Supreme Court, State Rep. Aaron Pena at A Capitol Blog (who testified in the original lawsuit) has a well-thought-out “best guess” on how the case may end up:
It seems that Judge Ward [who [...]

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