Buried in the redistricting complaint filed by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbot is some interesting language:

“This complaint is filed under the assumption that Section 5 complies with the United States Constitution.”

One can almost imagine the Motions to Amend Complaint just waiting for lawyer signatures down in Austin to add constitutional challenges to Section 5 to the complaint.

The Fort Worth Star Telegram calls it Abbot’s “Kings-X”.

“That’s not just typical lawyer mumbo-jumbo. Abbott said the state “reserves all applicable legal claims” in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2009 decision in an Austin case that skirted the edge of declaring the pre-clearance requirement unconstitutional. Two other cases on the same question are pending before the D.C. court.”