“Beldar” (Bill Dyer) of the Beldar Blog collects news stories about the Texas redistricting suit and offers some detailed analysis of what it means for the pending Supreme Court redistricting case of Vieth v. Jubelirer here. He writes:
- I also believe that if the US Supreme Court intends to write dramatic new law in Vieth that overrules Bandemer and substantially restricts partisan gerrymandering in any important way, then the same Justices who cast preliminary votes to that effect after oral arguments in Vieth almost certainly would have voted to grant the Texas plaintiffs’ motion for an emergency stay pending appeal. If they know the law is about to change in a way that would make what the Texas Legislature did in 2003 illegal, then they almost certainly would have voted to ensure that the 2004 elections in Texas would take place either under whatever new law they intend to announce in Vieth, or else under the pre-existing 2001 map