DeLay's redistricting (mostly) upheld

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this Supreme Court decision (or if
they did, my google groups search did not find it).

I'm a partisan Democrat and I hate Tom Delay and what he did in Texas
but I do think this is the right decision. Partisan redistricting and
gerrymandering is a long American tradition that has been found legal,
if not very pretty, time and time again. The Constitution, by giving
it to the statel legislatures to do, clearly meant for it to be this
way. We can't outlaw it just because the other side figured out how to
do it better than us this time. We just have to start doing it better
than them again.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060629/NEWS07/606290393/1009

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