Perry v. Del Rio

These redistricting cases present important questions for our State. But the importance of the questions does not permit the Court to first ignore, and then refashion, two long-standing areas of Texas jurisprudence. “Under our form of government, the legitimacy of the judiciary rests in large part upon a stable and predictable decisionmaking process that differs dramatically from that properly employed by the political branches of government.” Weiner v. Wasson, 900 S.W.2d 316, 320 (Tex.1995). Regrettably, the Court once again fails to adhere to the stare-decisis doctrine that is the…