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RufusEarl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-28-06 09:44 AM
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Supremes kick DeLay
Court Overturns Texas Redistricting
Wall Street Journal (subscription), NY - 20 minutes ago
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out part of a Texas congressional map engineered by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, saying some of ...

http://online.wsj.com/google_login.htm
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global1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-28-06 09:48 AM
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1. Key Word Here Is "Part" - A Small :"Part" - Bottom Line - Delay Won.....
two-thirds of this battle. They threw us a crumb. It is like a death by a slow - drip - drip - drip. Two-thirds here. Two-thirds there. Eventually there will be nothing much at all left to recover.
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ewagner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-28-06 09:51 AM
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2. Walked through and saw CNN
claiming "Victory for Delay"....

won't watch again today....
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ewagner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-28-06 10:22 AM
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3. Oh-oh....
Just read an account of the decision....this bothers me

A LOT!!!

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.

here's the "linky-thing"

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060628/D8IH95O82.html
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