QUORUM BREAKING

Law.com has a good article on TX constitutional disputes over quorum-breaking. The article is marred by an odd phrase, however:

[Hinojosa] alleges that under redistricting maps approved by the Senate Jurisprudence Committee on July 23, the number of minority districts would decrease from 11 to 10, and four districts in which minorities have a strong voice would be eliminated.

Refuting that allegation at a July 30 news conference, Dewhurst said, "Nothing we do is going to affect in any way minority rights or any rights of any voters."

If that's all it takes to establish a "refutation," then human reason is in a worse state than anyone has hitherto dared to imagine.