Republican Alabama legislators advanced a new congressional map Monday with just one majority-Black district, seemingly spitting in the eye of the Supreme Court which had just sent it back to the drawing board.
We ended Reconstruction at least 146 years too early.
If Roberts got really mad, maybe heâd allow the court to reconsider the decision in Shelby having found not only blatant examples of racial gerrymandering and voter suppression, but also a disrespect for the civil war amendments and the court itself.
I so desperately want to see a democratic platform centered on voting rights, privacy rights, federal court reform, and ending the Senate fillibuster.
Well, Alabama Rethugs have a long history of spitting in the eye of fairness, equal rights, voting rights, diversity, and the law. it must be programmed in their brains, assuming they have any.
Oddly, I have been having the exact same thought. Maybe we can try again, and get it right this time.
Letâs send 'em some carpet-bagging Yankee-scum to kick ass and take names.
Lack of respect begets lack of respect. SCOTUS feels very vulnerable to disrespect given their rep.
So the Ohio legislative plan of re-submitting the same flawed set of maps until the clock runs out and the state is âforcedâ to retain the gerrymander.
âOur legislature knows our state better than the federal courts do.â AKA âWe know where the black people live, why does SCOTUS have to keep hassling us?â
And Sandra Day OâConnor thought weâd be able to fix it in just 25 years. What was she smoking??
Theyâre engaging in the legislative version of fellow Alabaman George Corley Wallace who famously criticized âpointy headed bureaucrats who canât even park their bicycles straightâ.
Their dream Supreme Court until they rule against them. Similar to accepting an electionâs outcome only if a certain asshole wins. Letâs all ignore the Supreme Court rulings we donât like.
General Sherman should have marched through THE ENTIRE SOUTH.
The AL legislature will simply repeat what Andrew Jackson so famously did not actually say: "John Roberts has made his decision; now let him enforce it.**
The Alabama decision, with Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joining the liberals, stunned nearly all in the voting rights world.
So, get the case sent back to SCOTUS so Roberts and Kavanaugh can correct their wrong decision???
I donât get it: I guess I never thought you could just go nya nya nya NYA nya to the f-ing Supreme Court. Just amazing.
So would somebody sue again, and Ivey ârefuseâ to do anything about it?
What? I donât get it. This is nuts.
âIt is critical that Alabama be fairly and accurately represented in Washington,â Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) saidâŚ
Would love to hear just what Kay Iveyâs definition of âfairâ is. Iâm guessing itâs something like âanything that is favorable to white Christianistsâ
Umm â did you forget about massive resistance? Thatâs one reason it took TWO Supreme Court decisions to start trying to desegregate schools. I say âtrying,â because in the long run, it hasnât been successful, thanks to the advent of white Christian academies, redlining, and white flight from the cities.
Shelby was 5-4
Thereâs no guarantee that Roberts votes with the current minority.
The case only went to SCOTUS after the district court issued a preliminary injunction. The case remains pending at the trial court before the same panel of three judges. I presume theyâll enjoin use of any map that doesnât conform with their previous ruling. Eventually, they might end up drawing their own map if the legislature fails to do it right.
The main difference here would be that the Biden Admin could step in to enforce it, if it came to that. (Iâm not sure exactly by what mechanism, but this is a case of state power against federal power, so itâs not the case of the executive thumbing his nose at the judiciary.)