I hate to be the one to stand in the middle of the room and shout, “I TOLD YOU SO,” but I did note on at least one prior occasion that this was a distinct possibilty:
A Latino voting rights group might ask the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out Texas’ new congressional map, based on [...]

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The three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a court-ordered remedy map to rectify Texas’ Congressional District 23, which was declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this summer. In the process, the Court changed a total of five districts: 23, 28, 24, 25 and 15.
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There have been so many twists, turns, maps, briefs, data sheets and press releases thrown around in the latest round of the Texas Redistricting Saga that I can’t remember if I predicted this is what would happen or not, but the three-judge panel has decided it will redraw the map, not pick any of the [...]

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Pairing of incumbents and eleminating Lloyd Doggett’s base in Travis County are unnecessary components of a new redistricting map, U.S. District Judge Patrick Higginbotham suggusted today during arguments on how to remedy Texas’ unconstitutional 23rd Congressional District.
Solicitor General Ted Cruz, of course, defended the state’s map:
Cruz denied that the state Republican leadership was trying to [...]

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The New York Times has up an article on Texas Redistricting, complete with a photo of Ciro Rodriguez.
There are a couple of things I want to note from the article: one about Rodriguez and one about appeals.
First, regarding appeals:
Jose Garza, a lawyer for the League of United Latin American Citizens, which is offering two maps, [...]

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The Fifth Circuit has set Texas Democratic Party v. Benkiser, the case concerning the replacement of Congressman Tom DeLay, for oral argument at 10:00 a.m. Monday, July 31 in New Orleans.
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It was another busy Friday in the world of Texas Redistricting.
The state, via the office of the Attorney General, filed this reply brief to the various and sundry remedy briefs filed by the plaintiffs, intervenors and other interested parties.
The Jackson Plaintiffs filed this reply brief to the AG’s plan and others.
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A couple of things on the Redistricting Remedy Plans.
First, Lone Star Project has their analysis up. Burnt Orange Report has more on that.
Second, CQPolitics has a look at the remedy plans, including this .pdf which looks at the districts using voting trends from 2004 and 2002 based on the districts’ current makeups and proposed makeups.
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Thanks to a reader who saw my post on one of the Democratic listservs this morning who sent in some very helpful corrections to my massive redistricting post from last night/this morning/the wee hours.
The first correction is a total flob on my part that I actually got from the Mainstream media. From this reader’s email:
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Evidently, there has been a “new” remedy map proposed by the state defendants after all of the controversy about Doggett being in the wrong district and all of that.
I don’t think the map will fly at all, though. After all, it contains non-contiguious districts. And there are some really wierd things going on in the [...]

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