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Big Week in Court for DeLay

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OK, so rarely a week goes by where Tom DeLay doesn’t have some sort of important court date, but this next couple of weeks will have some real repercussions for the country.

Sometime this week, the Supreme Court is expected to decide on the constitutionality of DeLay’s 2003 redistrictring. If the court decides against it, the state would revert to the former districts and electoral chaos would ensue. If the court decides that the redistricting was constitutional, then we may soon see a whole lot more gerrymandering in blue as well as red states.

And according to lawyer for the Texas Democrats Chris Dunn, a federal judge in Texas is expected to decide next week whether Republicans can constitutionally replace DeLay as their candidate. If DeLay loses, he’ll be stuck on the ballot. And what happens then? Will he let the Democrat Nick Lampson run unopposed?

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