Fly, meet ointment.
Today we learned that the federal court in DC that is engaged in the lawsuit to decide whether the Texas
That’s six, count ‘em, six days after the deadline date that county clerks across Texas Texas
And guess what? What if the DC court decides that the boundaries that were redrawn by the state legislature earlier this year were, by design, discriminatory toward Hispanics in Texas San Antonio
We have, friends and neighbors, one 9 on the Richter Scale clusterf… . Clusterf… .
That is, between these three courts, DC, SCOTUS, and San Antonio Texas
And that’s what you get when you stay away from the polls in 2010 and allow Republicans to enjoy a super majority in the legislature.
A true clusterf… .
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Actually, there is an option that springs to mind -- and which has historical precedent. In 1964, the entire Illinois Legislature was elected "at-large" on what was known as the "bedsheet ballot" in the wake of the Baker v. Carr decision by the US Supreme Court, which threw out the state's legislative map for violating the "one-man, one-vote" principle.
Imagine getting to vote for every seat in the legislature and every house seat!
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