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The Justice staff memo was obtained by the Lone Star Project ...The story broke the same day the U.S. Supreme Court was considering legal challenges to the plan brought by Democrats and minority groups.
(Houston Chronicle, 12/3/2005)

The Texas chapter of the NAACP, along with the Lone Star Project, have analyzed the amicus brief filed by the Justice Department and have concluded, justifiably, that the Voting Rights section of the Justice Department is now controlled by partisan political appointees.
(Roll Call - Donna Brazile, 2/28/2006)

Using the Lone Star Project as an information clearinghouse for all things DeLay. The organization "particularly became relevant as the unethical activities of Tom DeLay came more to light."
(The Fix – Washington Post,3/6/2006)

DeLay is pushing to have his case moved to his home county of Fort Bend.

The Lone Star Project, a Democratic group, points to several top-of-the-ticket races in recent years in arguing that Travis County has less of a partisan split than other possible trial venues despite its liberal reputation.
(San Antonio Express-News, 11/11/2005)

What's more, the relevant 73-page memo "has been kept under tight wraps" since then. That memo is now publicly available, here in PDF at the Lone Star Project.
(Hotline, 12/2/2005)

Expert Testimony from the Trial
Keith Gaddie (Republican Expert)
Gaddie: my commentary at that time was the same as my comment to the State Senate Committee, which is that District 24 was a district where minority voters were in control of the Democratic party primary. . . .
Q. Is it also your understanding that the African- American candidate of choice in that district is consistently elected in the general election?
Gaddie Answer. Yes. The Democratic nominee is consistently elected in the general election.
(Source: Jackson Plaintiffs’ Ex. No. 140 (Deposition of Keith Gaddie, pp. 12, 16-19, 32. November 22, 2003)).

Alan Lichtman (Democratic Expert)
Lichtman: “Black voters have more than equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice in Democratic primary elections in CD 24 under Plan 1151C, and the district is more than sufficiently Democratic to elect Democratic nominees to public office.”  (Source: Lichtman Report November 14, 2003)

Non-Expert Witness Testimony:
Ron Wilson, former State Rep. defeated in 2004 Democratic Primary
Q: I have heard both testimony and argument from one side of the room in this case suggesting that District 24 up in Dallas is a District that would elect a Black for Congress if pitted against an Anglo. What’s your thought about that?
Ron Wilson’s Answer.  I think it would elect a Black if it was Martin Frost’s long lost, you know, Black child, but. . . [t]here’s no way. There’s absolutely no way it could happen.” J.A., at 277. (Source: State Appellees’ Brief)

Congresswoman Johnson’s quote inappropriately applied to wrong district
Eddie Bernice Johnson in reference to the outdated 1991 District Map
Q.  . . . I wanted just to ask whether it’s your opinion that the Hispanic population is divided across Congressional Districts now in the current plan?
Congresswoman Johnson Answer.  To – yes, to a certain degree.
Q.  And what would you say is the motivation for that division?
Congresswoman Johnson Answer.  I’ll have to answer that the same way I answered to my attorney. It’s to accommodate others.
Q.  And, in particular, white Democrats?
Congresswoman Johnson Answer.  Martin Frost.”
(Source: State Appellees’ Brief)
 
 
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