Supreme Court Hears Texas Redistricting Case
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments today about Texas redistricting and now must decide whether the state's primaries must be delayed to buy time for the courts to approve new maps.
It appears that the justices have to choose between waiting for the current round of lower court proceedings to play out, pushing back the primaries or choosing an interim map to use now, keeping the primaries on schedule.
The high court took the case in December, after a panel of three federal judges in San Antonio adopted an interim map of its own making for the 2012 ...
Comments (3)
Max Sped
Greg Abbot is not fighting for the legislative maps, he is fighting for the Republican Party - Party before State and Country.
Hannah Katz
The Plaintiffs and their stooges on the San Anonio court are strictly for the Democratic Party. The San Antonio judges' map seeks to replace Latino Republicans with Latino Democrats
jimrtex
There is absolutely no reason that the runoff has to be held before the conventions. And for that matter little reason for a primary at all.
Precinct conventions elect delegates to *county conventions which elect delegates to the state conventions which elect delegates to national convention which chooses the presidential nominee of the party. *senatorial district conventions are not really for the senate district, but a way of splitting county conventions in larger counties, and are voluntary. If a county has senatorial district conventions, it doesn't have a county convention.
Precinct conventions are traditionally held the night of the primary, but under a new law may be held up to the following Sunday. One doesn't have to vote in the primary to attend a precinct convention, and one doesn't have to attend a precinct convention even if they vote.
So the only real need for a primary before the convention is to use the presidential primary results for allocating national convention delegates. A primary in June with a convention in July would work fine.