DO OVER

SO IF DELAY’S TRICK of “redistricting”  in Texas until he got his extra Republican seats gets overturned, will all  the votes in the House get recast? Do the people get a do over here or do the Republicans get a mulligan?

The Supreme Court said Monday it would consider the constitutionality of a Texas congressional map engineered by Rep. Tom DeLay that helped Republicans gain seats in Congress.
The 2003 boundaries helped Republicans win 21 of the state's 32 seats in Congress in the last election up from 15. They were approved amid a nasty battle between Republican leaders and Democrats and minority groups in Texas.

SOMEBODY SHOULD TAKE a look at all the narrow votes won by six Republican votes.  Somebody should ask how cynical it is to take power where and how you can and get away with as much as you can until you get caught.  Somebody should ask whether there is something evil in that approach to representing the people of the United States in the all too apparent business of their government.  Or maybe somebody just did.

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[blogenfreude]

Wouldn't that be nice ... subtract the votes of the extra districts from vote totals and, if it changes the outcome, goodbye tax cut for the wealthy, or goodbye law slamming the poor.

[Kvatch]

Maybe they'll reinstate the congressmen whose districts disappeared, rebalance the whole equation.

Wait, wait. I forgot that this is the same Supreme Court that gave a buy to G.W. Bush. They didn't out and find another one, right?

[Craig R.]

Remember, the GOP is likely very unhappy about this -- for this is the "second bite of the apple" for those opposing the redistricting plan.

And what may have presented the second side of the fruit for eating is the newly-published memo from the Section 5 staff lawyers recommending *against* the redistricting plan.

It is likely that the Justices don't like being lied tio, either directly or by omission.

And it is *real* doubtful that DOJ would have admitted that their own Section 5 staff recommended *against* the decision to preclear the Texas plan.

And it certainly wasn't in open court, if they did, else it would have been all over the media.

ANd *I* certainly don't recall that tidbit from the prior coverage.