Jurisdictional statement - About Redistricting - Loyola Law School
Jurisdictional statement - About Redistricting - Loyola Law School
Jurisdictional statement - About Redistricting - Loyola Law School
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71a<br />
and you mentioned the name Patrick Dennis. Who is<br />
he?<br />
A. Patrick Dennis is our chief counsel of the<br />
judiciary committee.<br />
Q. The judiciary committee?<br />
A. Correct.<br />
Q. And you indicated he would communicate some<br />
information—<br />
A. Any bill we put up, any amendment that we<br />
put up, it did have the black voting-age population on<br />
it and Patrick would highlight or just point, just<br />
giving information, purely—he was not making a<br />
decision, he was just purely giving information to the<br />
chairman. The chairman would then move to table.<br />
He had three votes, and it didn't matter what the<br />
amendment was, if that black voting-age population<br />
went down a percentage point he would—<br />
Q. And did you ever talk to Mr. Clemmons about<br />
this?<br />
A. At length.<br />
Q. And his reasoning for doing that—<br />
A. I talked to Mr. Clemmons. I even talked to—<br />
attempted to talk to House counsel about this, and he<br />
did not have a<br />
* * * *<br />
[24] hired counsel for a legal opinion and take a<br />
break was so that we could actually get a why. But<br />
that never was given. The only issue that Alan<br />
Clemmons ever had in his mind, as you listen to the<br />
tape, he did not discuss public testimony, he did not<br />
discuss communities of interest, the only thing he