AG Holder vs Texas (San Antonio, Anton: 2013, attorney, zip codes)

[rynetwo]

What do you think folks?

In a speech to the National Urban League in Philadelphia, Holder said that as its first move, the department is asking a federal court in San Antonio to require the state of Texas to obtain advance approval before putting future political redistricting changes in place.

The attorney general called the Voting Rights Act "the cornerstone of modern civil rights law" and said that "we cannot allow the slow unraveling of the progress that so many, throughout history, have sacrificed so much to achieve."

News from The Associated Press

[War Beagle]

Sounds lawless to me. The Supreme Court was pretty clear on this.

[Truth713]

re-distrcting should never be in the hands of politicans to began with..

[ChristieP]

Originally Posted by War Beagle

The Supreme Court was pretty clear on this.

SCOTUS has spoken, and DOJ needs to realized they have been overruled.

[Trainwreck20]

Either you have redistricting oversight for all states, or for none.

But I have to agree, politicians doing the redistricting is a travesty.

Divide the state up into a grid and make districts based on the grid, or else use zip codes - make the post office useful for something

[Willsson]

Originally Posted by rynetwo

What do you think folks?




News from The Associated Press

One thousand +++ days tooooo many, to go.

[winkosmosis]

Originally Posted by Trainwreck20

Either you have redistricting oversight for all states, or for none.

But I have to agree, politicians doing the redistricting is a travesty.

Divide the state up into a grid and make districts based on the grid, or else use zip codes - make the post office useful for something

Then each district would have a different population

[Trainwreck20]

Then each district would have a different population

Not one-to-one correlation, but just by blocks - 5 low density blocks in one district would be equal to a 1 block high density voting district. Ofc, if the blocks were small enough, then you could still gerrymander, but maybe have an adjacency requirement, as well - each additional block would have to be adjacent to as many other blocks in the district as possible (i.e. you could not leave holes and could not build 'spikes').

This is just off-the-cuff, nothing specific, but it would be nice to have the districts not quite so homogeneous.

[Roxie_B]

Originally Posted by ChristieP

SCOTUS has spoken, and DOJ needs to realized they have been overruled.

Actually, since the Texas Legislature was found to have intentionally discriminated when it drew congressional and legislative redistricting maps way back in 2011, the DOJ is saying that evidence should be enough to subject the state to a “bail in” provision that the Supreme Court left in the federal Voting Rights Act, just for this situation.

[TX75007]

Eric Holder will either be pardoned by Obama or in jail in in 2018. The surveillance apparatus he built and the gun running into Mexico both open him up to civil suits once he is no longer AG. A pardon will not protect him from a civil suit.