Thursday, March 02, 2006

Supreme Moral Reasoning

As in, "two wrongs make a right." Driven through the Texas legislature by illegal funding and back-room GOP corruption, now to be ratified by the Supremes. Fuckers.

Justices Hint Texas Redistricting Will Stand - Los Angeles Times
Democrats and civil rights activists appealed to the high court to undo what they called the "partisan gerrymander," saying it was unfair and threatened to poison politics in other states.

But during oral arguments Wednesday, most justices said partisanship was a fact of life in drawing electoral districts. Moreover, several said, Texas' congressional districts now are no more skewed toward Republicans than the 1990s map was toward Democrats.
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