Gerrymandate

That champion of moral rectitude, darling of the AFA/FRC/KKK set, and all-around good Catholic Antonin Scalia shrugs off GOP gerrymandering in Texas with a flippant "So what? Everybody does it." Being a conservative means never having to worry about inconsistency.

Supreme Court Weighs Texas Political Map - Yahoo! News

"The only reason it was considered, let alone passed, was to help one political party get more seats than another," justices were told by Paul M. Smith, a Washington lawyer who represents the League of United Latin American Citizens, one of the groups challenging the plan.

"That's a surprise," Justice Antonin Scalia quipped. "Legislatures re-draw the map all the time for political reasons."

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