TEXAS REDISTRICTING & ELECTION LAW

The San Antonio panel has set a status conference in the Texas redistricting case for Friday, August 31, at 1:30 p.m.

However, the panel’s order, signed by Judge Orlando Garcia, cautioned that it was the anticipation that the 2012 election would proceed as scheduled and “be conducted in accordance with this court’s interim plans.”   The order further said that the panel did “not presently intend to exercise its authority to remedy the Section 5 violations found by the D.C. Court until all appeals to the United States Supreme Court have been exhausted.”

The court told litigants that “[a]ny Plaintiff who contemplates arguing that the COurt’s interim plans may not be used to conduct the November general election must be prepared to present statutiry or case law in support of any such argument.”

The court’s order can be found here.