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Everyone wants a piece of Tom DeLay. The former majority leader is under investigation and indictment, and even the Supreme Court threatened last Term to undo one of his signal achievements. In 2003, DeLay orchestrated a highly unusual mid-decade revision of Texas’s congressional map. The revised map was a boon to Republicans, shifting the Texas congressional delegation from 15 Republicans and 17 Democrats to 21 Republicans and 11 Democrats. The map was attacked as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander and a violation of the Voting Rights Act. When the Supreme Court agreed to hear those challenges in LULAC v. Perry, many commentators thought the Court’s action signaled that it was finally prepared to strike down a redistricting plan as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander— something it had never done.
Recommended Citation
Adam B. Cox,
Self-Defeating Minimalism,
105
Mich. L. Rev. First Impressions
53
(2006).
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