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2011-11-09 Home Front: Politix

US court refuses to OK new Texas congressional map

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Posted by trailing wife 2011-11-09 08:20|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 The US Justice Department, which is required to determine whether new maps in some states comply with US civil rights laws, argued the Texas plan "substantially decreases" the ability of minority voters to elect their candidates of choice.

DOJs Secret Internal Redistricting Plans
The Holder Justice Department has been using secret internal redistricting plans to try to force states, counties and cities to maximize the number of black elected officials resulting from redistricting. In the 1990′s the Department of Justice Voting Section engaged in illegal activity that was commonly referred to as Max-Black when reviewing redistricting plans in 16 states covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. In sum, it meant that DOJ Voting Section lawyers worked with groups like the NAACP to maximize the number of black elected officials in any legislative, county or city redistricting plan submitted to Justice. As I write in my book Injustice, this behavior cost the taxpayers a bundle in sanctions.

The bill in another Clinton-era case, Johnson v. Miller, was a touch smalleronly $594,000but the Civil Rights Division misconduct was even more egregious. In that case, the Voting Section fought to impose an illegal, racially gerrymandered legislative redistricting plan on the state of Georgia. In attempting to create as many black-controlled legislative districts as possible, Voting Section lawyers became sleazy advocates for leftist groups and, according to the court, may have committed perjury.

Our good friend former Assistant Attorney General Loretta King was involved in this outrage. Everything old is new again, and the Holder Department of Justice is once again imposing Max-Black on the United States through the use of secret internal Max-Black redistricting plans that are used to criticize or attack plans submitted by jurisdictions which do not Max-Black.

Max-Brown too?

Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-11-09 14:18|| 2011-11-09 14:18|| Front Page Top

#2 It's all about gumming up redistricting until after the 2012 elections.

Dem Campaign Chief predicts San Antonio Federal Court will draw interim lines to pick up five additional seats
Democrats hope to pick up as many as five U.S. House seats in Texas by challenging two freshmen Republicans and gaining three new seats through legal challenges to a GOP redistricting plan. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is targeting Rep. Francisco Canseco, R-San Antonio, and Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Corpus Christi, freshmen lawmakers who knocked off incumbent Democrats in 2010.

Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-11-09 14:23|| 2011-11-09 14:23|| Front Page Top

#3 If I must say so, the map is pretty badly gerrymandered. It was going to split my city of Austin in to 4 different districts. That's nuts. And I tend to vote 'publican most of the time too.

Posted by texhooey 2011-11-09 20:43|| 2011-11-09 20:43|| Front Page Top

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