Jon Roland of the Constitution Society and Coalition for Non-Partisan
Redistricting, filed a Petition in Intervention in /LULAC v. Perry/, the
Texas redistricting case, July 12, 2006. The petition and an exhibit can
be found at http://www.constitution.org/reform/us/tx/redistrict/cnpr.htm .
In this petition Intervenor, a citizen of the State of Texas, offered:
1. A standard of proof by which the Court may determine what
is and is not constitutionally impermissible adoption of district maps
for the U.S. House of Representatives.
2. Argument that it is not the maps /per se /but the intent
and method of creating and adopting them that may be in violation of the
Constitution and Voting Rights Act.
3. Argument that the manual revision of a few of the
districts of the 2003 map, even if done by the Court, is just as
improper as the drawing of those districts in the first instance, and
that only a new map, produced by a new method, is compliant with both
the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act.
4. Argument that however defective might be the 2003 map, it
is too late to revise it for the 2006 election, and the Court should
adopt a new method for producing maps for subsequent elections.
5. A method for producing maps for subsequent elections,
that satisfies the standard of proof offered and also the U.S. Supreme
Court in its decision of June 28, 2006.
-- Jon
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