Houston Chronicle: Texas remap sent back to lower court
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court decision Monday ordering a Texas court to revisit its approval of a controversial redistricting map won't change the November election but keeps alive hope of overturning the map by 2006, said lawyers who sued the state.BeldarBlog: SCOTUS decision today on Texas redistricting case is no big deal
So what's this mean? The Associated Press story on today's ruling, as republished in the online version of the Houston Chronicle (beware, the Chron has a nasty tendancy to edit, replace, or simply make content disappear at the same URL), spins this as if it were a big win for the Dems:The Supreme Court handed Democrats a victory today, ordering a lower court to reconsider a Texas redistricting plan that could give Republicans six more seats and a firmer hold on their majority in the House.I suppose from the standpoint of the Democratic plaintiffs, today's ruling is slightly better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. But it's a shallow, technical, procedural, and — in all probability — a purely temporary victory for the Dems that at best gives them one more bite at an apple they've already gone hungry on before.
Posted by Rob Booth on October 19, 2004, 06:14 AM | News and Views - Texas | Printer-Friendly