"..states must adjust their congressional district lines every 10 years...In Texas the boundaries were redrawn twice after the 2000 census..."

Um, wow. Okay. This was not the ruling that I had expected, no matter who Bush just put into the court. Gerrymandering is illegal. Everyone should know this as it's something that is taught to us again and again in jr high and high school social studies classes. Despite that this is stated in the constitution, the courts still ruled that DeLay's blatant gerrymandering, which scattered several minorities until they have no voice, was legal.

They gave a variety of reasons for each district line they left redrawn. None of them really agreeing on any of them, all of which spanned nearly 120 pages of reasoning. This is good news to me - it means they couldn't decide, as a whole, if what had happened was right for the same reasons. Sadly, they all still felt it was right for the plan to happen.

I don't know if they think that the americans are stupid, or just don't care. Maybe they think that we think so lowly of Texans that we will just role our eyes and go "figures." In either case, I don't think that's true. One group of people are already taking specific lines back to court and people across the nation are asking for better and more concise reasons that gerrymandering, in any form, is considered legal.

This tells me two things about the american culture: that our politicians are getting grabby and think that they can get away with far more than they should be able to (not that we didn't know that) and that the american people need to stand up to them and bring them back under their control.