Here we go

Now we get the chance to see how activist Associate Justice Samuel "I hate one man one vote" Alito really is.

White House Defends Texas's GOP Remapping Plan to Justices

The Bush administration has come to the defense of Texas in a legal battle with political overtones, telling the Supreme Court in a brief filed yesterday that the state's 2003 congressional redistricting plan, drafted by Republicans, is fully consistent with the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

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Justice Department lawyers initially recommended rejecting Texas's plan, saying it would harm black and Hispanic voters, but were overruled by senior Justice officials. The legal standards used in the lawyers' analysis, however, were different from those at issue in the current case, which focuses on a separate section of the Voting Rights Act.

If the Supremes vote with the Bushies, every Democratic Senator who didn't do his or her utmost to oppose Scalito should be tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail.

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