Brian Bilbray: “Justice Clark was clarifying that it is not a totally different issue and that has not been overturned yet. The letters…”

“Justice Clark was clarifying that it is not a totally different issue and that has not been overturned yet. The letters from the judges, as somebody who ran a county of 2.5 million full of judges, I know what the process likes to be and would like to be. They have to follow the Constitution too. Mr. Chairman, this clarifies the fact that again, if the 3-judge process has worked and continues to work with reapportionment, then all parts of activity that relate to reapportionment should be following the same rule. Mr. Chairman, I insist that we recognize that the gentleman from California [Mr. Bono] is only reinforcing a ruling that was made by the Supreme Court and basically statutorily corrects an inconsistency that we have detected recently. And we not only have the right to correct this inconsistency; we have the responsibility.”