{"id":7029,"date":"2012-02-07T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T08:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7029"},"modified":"2012-02-07T00:02:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T08:02:00","slug":"bad-redistricting-deal-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/07\/bad-redistricting-deal-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Redistricting Deal in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas gained four seats in the US house in the last census, due to population growth.  The entire population increase was Hispanic.  Naturally Texas Republicans gerrymandered the redistricting so blatantly  that all four new districts would have been controlled by whites.  The San Antonio Federal Court rejected the Republican redistricting and created their own map with four new Hispanic districts, properly representing the change in population.  SCOTUS overruled the  Federal court\u2019s districts and told Texas to redo the plan.  In the meantime, Texas\u2019 primaries are rapidly approaching, so the Texas Republicans made a deal with some Hispanic groups.  I think it\u2019s a bad deal.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"7Texas\"Texas\u2019 attorney general agreed Monday to temporary voting maps that add new Hispanic-dominated districts and could save the April 3 date for primary elections statewide. But at least one influential minority group said it would fight the new plan.<\/p>\n

Still, the proposal marks a rare moment of agreement in a bitter legal clash that has dragged on since last summer, even reaching the U.S. Supreme Court. Minority groups filed a lawsuit alleging the GOP-controlled Legislature drafted redistricting maps that were discriminatory and ignored a burgeoning Hispanic population.<\/p>\n

A San Antonio federal court had given the state and minority groups until Monday to reach a compromise, or see the Texas primaries pushed back for a second time.<\/p>\n

Under the new plan, Hispanics would control half of Texas\u2019 four new congressional seats that were awarded following new population numbers from the census<\/strong>. Attorney General Greg Abbott said seven minority groups agreed to the new plan, which he said minimizes changes to the original redistricting maps drafted by the Legislature.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s maps should allow the court to finalize the interim redistricting maps in time to have elections in April,\u201d Abbott said in a statement.<\/p>\n

But a lawyer for League of United Latin American Citizens, which was among the groups that sued, bristled at news of a compromise. Luis Vera predicted the deal wouldn\u2019t stand, saying: \u201cIt means absolutely nothing.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t immediately clear when the three-judge panel in San Antonio would accept or reject the proposal\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Washington Post<\/a>><\/p>\n

In Texas, whites are more likely to vote Republican and Hispanics are more likely to vote Democratic.  That\u2019s why Texas Republicans are so desperate about this.  Since Hispanic population growth is responsible for the creation of all four districts, Hispanics should control all four districts.  A two\/two split discriminates against Hispanic voters.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Texas gained four seats in the US house in the last census, due to population growth.  The entire population increase was Hispanic.  Naturally Texas Republicans gerrymandered the redistricting so blatantly  that all four new districts would have been controlled by whites.  The San Antonio Federal Court rejected the Republican redistricting and created their own map […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}