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...Texas politics, that Democrats may have a chance to gain a congressional seat following Wednesday's U.S. Supreme Court decision that, for the most part, upheld the controversial redistricting orchestrated three years ago by former Congressman Tom DeLay. But the fight over the seat currently held by Republican Henry Bonilla also could reopen old wounds between the Democratic Hispanic base and liberal Anglo leadership...
...over the DeLay plan. "It's impossible to take all partisanship out of the political process," wrote Justice David Souter said. But in Wednesday's 5-4 decision, signed by Justice Anthony Kennedy, Texas was ordered to redraw the map and undo the split that had divided Laredo between Bonilla's West Texas district and that of Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar. The addition of Democratic-leaning Latino voters to Bonilla's district could make him vulnerable in the next election. The opinion also suggested possible changes for the district represented by Democrat Lloyd Doggett, whose "fajita" district stretches from Austin...
...state legislature has the opportunity to redraw Bonilla's district, but given the divisive battle over redistricting and a pending gubernatorial election, few observers expect the lawmakers to take on that task again. That leaves it up to a three judge federal panel to look at maps submitted by the parties, or to simply draw...
...inscrutability of truth is the film’s leitmotif. Bonilla’s newscast carries the ironic title “One Hour With the Truth,” but Bonilla and his team expend more effort seeking the sensational and the spectacular than fact checking, and by the time they develop a serious interest in the truth, events make its revelation impossible...
...Crónicas” is so successful that its flaws seem hardly worth mentioning, but the sex scene between Bonilla and Marisa is particularly egregious. Their romance is completely contrived and unmotivated, the film does little to examine its aftermath or relate it thematically to the remainder of the narrative, and it is brutally and unimaginatively staged...