Tom Mann has written this Washington Post oped on potential changeover in the U.S. House of Representatives. Bob Bauer comments on the relationship of Tom’s views here to his views on the effects of partisan gerrymandering on competitiveness.
Roll Call offers this report, which notes that the Senate Judiciary Committee will mark up the bill Wednesday, and that so far no Senators have offered amendments. The Senators to watch on the committee are Cornyn, Sessions, and Coburn.… Continue reading
In this earlier post, I called Rep. Westmoreland’s statement suggesting he will challenge a renewed section 5 as unconstitutional “unfortunate, but not unexpected.” That post followed this earlier post, in which I wrote that “As a matter of… Continue reading
The state of Texas’s proposed plan is here. On page 16 of the brief, the state does not strongly argue for the remedial plan to be delayed until the 2008 elections, this despite the fact that elections under the… Continue reading
You can find it here. On page 19 is a sentence that may come back to haunt some Republicans: “[Vote] Dilution occurs when, as in Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98, 104-110 (2000), the ballots are not counted using… Continue reading
The LA Times offers this report showing that the term limits/redistricting commission deal is not yet dead. Notable quote for the governor on why he now favors a citizen commission:
And Schwarzenegger said he no longer favors a system in… Continue reading