SCOTUS ruled today on the DeLay-Rove reengineering of the Texas Congressional map. They ruled about as far away as the conventional wisdom and expectations could imagine. It's a mess. We might get a Bonilla-Cuellar re-match and Ciro? Who knows, we might see him again too. There is no limit to what the courts cannot make worse, ya dig?

Kuff has some initial thoughts. TexasKaos has some more. SCOTUSblog comments too. More from BOR as well. And yes, as Phillip at BOR highlights: this could effect my Congressional race as well, TX-21.

The full opinion is here. And Adam B. has an important post here.

Update:

"The three-judge panel will have the responsibility of deciding what to do with the redistricting map. The first decision is when they redraw the map for -- this election cycle, or the next. The second decision, then, is whether they will redraw the map themselves, and accept three maps from both Democrats and Republicans, OR whether they kick it back to the Texas Legislature for them to redraw the lines during the 80th Regular Session starting in January."

I'm being told "in any likely scenario" this will include CD 21, 23, 25, and 28.

And this is all excellent news because we won. As a friend, deeply involved in Texas politics, just wrote:

[This is a] substantial victory for the Voting Rights Act, a victory that puts the Southern Republicans on the spot, since they delayed VRA renewal to see what the SCOTUS did with Texas redistricting.

On the spot indeed.