Subject: Re: LULAC v. Perry and the Texas Constitution
From: Jon Roland
Date: 7/5/2006, 8:38 PM
To: David Schultz
CC: election-law@majordomo.lls.edu, election-law_gl@majordomo.lls.edu
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jon.roland@constitution.org

<x-flowed>The Texas Constitution http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/txconst/toc.html says absolutely nothing about U.S. Representative districts, only about Texas Senate and House districts. There is very little on it in the Election Code http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/statutes/el.toc.htm other than a requirement that the Legislature do it. The argument for the 2003 map was that, since the Court drew the 2001 map, that requirement had still not been met. Nothing forbids redistricting every week if the Legislature wants to do that. That is why, when I proposed a new provision of the Election Code on the subject, I had to create an entire new chapter. http://www.constitution.org/reform/us/tx/redistrict/redist_draft01.htm

-- Jon

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