The Supreme Court on Friday night announced that it will hear oral argument to consider the constitutionality of Texas redistricting plans drawn up by a lower federal court. A three-judge panel for the 5th Circuit in San Antonio put forward its own interim redistricting plans over Thanksgiving weekend. It determined that the Texas legislature failed to adequately account for the state's increase in Hispanic residents when redrawing its state and federal voting districts. The Supreme Court has now stayed those plans and ordered an expedited briefing schedule in advance of oral argument on Jan. 9.
Anybody got paper money they want to lay down over how this one is going to turn out? Anybody remember Florida? As always, it comes down to Kennedy. After Citizens United, I say its business as usual in Texas. But I am a bit of a cynic.
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William Kristol at The Weekly Standard is already crooning for Rubio and Ryan. Have you ever seen Republican nominees that inspire such blasé apathy as the current crop in your life?
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According to a new analysis by Sylvia Allegretto, a labor economist at the University of California at Berkeley’s Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics, the six Waltons, heirs to the Walmart fortune, have a combined wealth equal to the combined wealth of the lower thirty percent of the United States population. Their total net worth at the time of her analysis - $69.7 billion. Their net worth today - $93 billion.
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