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This week: The most depressing civics lesson since the day you learned that Randy Bachman can never, ever be President. It’s all after the jump!

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• The Supreme Court upholds most of the GOP-designed redistricting plan for Texas, but strikes down the redrawing of one district as violating the Voting Rights Act. The Court’s ruling may encourage more gerrymandering in the future. [NYT, LAT, WSJ, USAT, WP]

• Former House majority leader Tom DeLay hails the Supreme Court’s ruling as “a victory for the Constitution and a victory for the people of Texas”; but the criminal case against him remains unaffected. [WP]
• Israeli forces continue attacks in Gaza and seize several Hamas leaders. Palestinian gunmen claim to have killed an Israeli settler. [WP, NYT]
• As midterm elections approach, Bush takes the offensive against congressional Democrats and the news media, casting them as uncooperative in the war on terror. [WP, NYT]

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The New York Times, in its typical genteel fashion, describes New York’s 24th Congressional district as “horseshoe shaped.” But a horseshoe isn’t the first thing that came to our minds when we saw the district on a map: MORE »