An excerpt from the Star-Telegram:  This is all too typical of redistricting years,” said Larry Sabato, a
political analyst and director of the Center for Politics at the
University of Virginia. “The partisan wars, the Justice Department’s
decisions and the courts are ingredients in a goulash made to order for
gumming up the works.”

As lawyers, politicians, federal election
officials and a host of federal judges wade into the issue of Texas’
congressional and state legislative boundaries, the state’s conventions
— a few days set aside every other year to energize the party and
choose delegates for national conventions — hang in the balance.

“It
is indeed a mess,” said Allan Saxe, associate professor of government
at the University of Texas at Arlington. “We have had redistricting
battles in past years, but this one ranks right up there.”