Lawyers for the individual voters and organizations challenging Louisiana’s congressional map tried to impress upon a skeptical 5th Circuit Court of Appeals panel Friday that the state’s actions all drive in one direction: delaying the process so long that it has to use the likely unconstitutional map in 2024.
The 5th circuit would gouge out their own eyes before they see evidence of republican obstruction and insincerity.
Justice delayed is justice denied is so apropos in this case. It couldn’t be more true or more obvious.
Fifth Circuit: “Good, it’s working.”
To the contrary, it is their guiding principle.
"Judge Leslie Southwick said that what happened in Alabama after the Supreme Court’s ruling is “useful to consider, but it is certainly not controlling on us,” adding, “isn’t there time for us to do this in a more measured way?”
WTF does that mean? BS bias is what I read from it.
There is so much money on the Right that they can afford these gambits coast to coast. It’s a sea of funny money brought to them by John Roberts. Our country is without question weaker for the all the laws that have had to be removed in order to allow the Snakehandler-Billionaire-Racist coalition to maintain power.
If you start screaming about Jesus in some new way this morning, you can get a check by dusk.
The Alabama court is a district court in the 11th Circuit, so it seems like they are saying the case is outside the decisions of the 5th Circuit (because it’s in a different circuit and at the district level). Given it comes down from the Supreme Court though, one would expect it to have some bearing on other Circuits beyond the 11th.
BREAKING: New Mexico court upholds the state's congressional map. The court finds that while the map favors Democrats, it is not an "egregious gerrymander" and therefore does not violate the state constitution. More to come.https://t.co/5sLHoYx2up
— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) October 6, 2023
Slow walking? Delay? It sounds Trumpian to me!
The 5th Circuit demonstrates why we need to pack the court system at ALL levels. It’s out of control.
The Louisiana officials here seem to be thinking towards the Purcell “principle,” the very inconsistently applied notion that changes to election rules shouldn’t happen too close to elections because it risks voter confusion and administrator burden.
Ah yes, another poorly-defined doctrine so that the SCOTUS conservative majority can allow blatantly unconstitutional or illegal election decisions to go into effect because they are ‘too close’ to the election. ‘How close’ just happens to seemingly favor Republicans more than Democrats. Nobody knows why. 
Brilliant and damned funny!
Well, obviously the “balls and strikes” umpire is blind in the right eye while possessing x-ray vision in the left.
It’s the only logical explanation. Surely there’s no bias.
I propose that we rename the John Roberts Court the Jim Crow Court, and eventually rename John Roberts Jim Crow for leading the disastrous neoConfederate onslaught on civil rights legislation.
“…a more measured way?” It’s R judge speak for “over our dead bodies will there be a majority black district in Louisiana.” LA D ‘leaders’ are too spineless to just admit that they also will not nominate, endorse, or vote for a Black person. I don’t blame the national party for ignoring us. We so suck as a people.
Seriously and sincerely, if you are in LA and have the means to leave, go! We’re going to elect Landry, whose only goal is to out stupid FL.
5th Circuit can’t let go of their racist instincts. When Biden/Harris defeat the GOP in 2024 and Trump’s political career is done, there will need to be a new social contract with a stern message to the GOP and their judges: do not f**k with the rights of minorities to vote.
Here’s something to understand about the damage Trump judges are doing as a result of Team Unicorn:
It’s not just the Trump judges.
Their presence on the Courts creating majorities for the FedSoc-ALEC-State-Policy-Network-Southern-Strategy project and their willingness to just throw shit all over the Constitution, decisional precedent, legal and judicial norms, etc., functions the same way Mango Messiah’s willingness to throw shit on everything functioned for the GQP: It gives the rest of them permission and empowers them to radicalize themselves the way they always wanted to, but which they were prevented from doing by more balanced courts and the societal consensus on a social contract, norms, proper behavior, respect for truth and our institutions, etc.
Fuckwads like Edith Jones have always been lunatics, but they kept their babbling and drool to themselves instead of on public display…at least to some extent. Now it’s all loons on deck as if the presence of Trumpist extremists like Judge Ho have awakened FedSoc sleeper cells.
Did I mention…
