Colorado reredistricting verdict will be out Monday

[Lexingtonian]

It's Salazar v. Davidson.

For more, see at
http://www.dailykos.com

[dusty64]

1. I've been wondering

what was going on with this. Any word about the cases against reredistricting in Texas?

[Mikhale]

3. Texas Case

On Monday, there'll be a hearing where Reps DeLay and Barton will try to have their subpoenas quashed. One week from Tuesday is the hearing they're trying to avoid.

[dusty64]

6. Thanks.

These cases bear watching, their effects will be huge one way or the other. They will also be a good benchmark to see if the judicial system has completely stopped being part of the checks and balances of our country.

[jiacinto]

2. What do they think the likely outcome will be

My gut says that Salazar will lose this.

[CO Liberal]

4. I Don't Think So

Most of the Justices on the Colorado Supreme Court were appointed by Democratic governors, and I think they will see the Republicans' actions for the scam that it is.

[Lexingtonian]

5. Dems should win

The formal reason for redistricting is to (re)enfranchise voters, making every Representative accountable for an equal number of constituents and answerable to a roughly equal number of voters as all the rest in her/his state. It means that pro forma no voter is less, or more, able to determine the Representative(s) from her/his state than any other voter.

So redistricting is necessary periodically. But once all districts are settled to have equal numbers of constituents, further adjustments become superfluous unless results of a new census are adopted by the state government.

(The well known exception to this broad leeway to creating districts is when there is a history of de facto violation of equal representation rights of a substantial and distinctive recognizable group of voters in the state. Compliance with federal laws, contained within the VRA of 1964, is then the test.)

As a matter of government, revisiting of settled issues suggests the best interests of the constituency were misserved the first time or being sold out the second time- it suggests a failure of legislative and/or executive branches of government and tends to force resolution by the judiciary. In the case of the Colorado and Texas re-redistrictings, it's hard to see how honest courts can condone extraordinary redistricting outside of extraordinary circumstances when adequate districts have previously been established.

But maybe the courts will variously buy Beauprez's and/or DeLay's claims that sufficiently extraordinary circumstances exist to justify the dirty deeds done, or that there are loopholes in the laws involved. That's what gives this stuff some suspense.

[janx]

7. Thanks for the update. I've been wondering what happened

with that.

Lord, I hope they don't let this garbage proceed.

[dusty64]

8. Apparently a verdict

today. Fingers crossed that justice will be done.

[Hawkeye-X]

9. Verdict handed down

:party: DEMS WIN! :party: -- now let's get Colorado back to the D side for the 2004 elections.

Hawkeye-X