Conservative justices on the Supreme Court Tuesday let a Galveston county, Texas map — which both federal district and appellate courts have found to be a racial gerrymander — stand Tuesday without explaining their decision.
Conservative justices on the Supreme Court Tuesday let a Galveston County, Texas map — which both federal district and appellate courts have found to be a racial gerrymander — stand Tuesday without explaining their decision.
Despite Justice “The Leopards Haven’t Eaten MY Face Yet” Thomas, the explanation is pretty clear.
(To anyone but the legacy press, that is.)
While this isn’t a final ruling, it’s obvious the radical far right wing 5th Circuit will use this finding to help out their GOP masters and complete the killing of the Voting Rights Act to preserve extreme racial gerrymanders.
The SCOTUS simply isn’t interested in voting rights. How many times do we have to ask them before we stop asking them?
The 5th Circuit agreed to take up the case en banc. After some back and forth, the court ultimately ruled that it was too close to the election to use new maps — despite the lower court’s ordering of a remedial map to be drawn two months ago — an invocation of the Purcell principle that right-wing judges enjoy using sporadically. That means that the map, which the district judge and 5th Circuit panel have both found to be a racial gerrymander, stands.
We’re a little under a year from the elections, no? How can that be considered “too close to the election” to change the maps? It seems to be a wholly unjustifiable conclusion.
too close to what election? next year’s?? like, the one in 11 months? omfg.
Supreme Court knows that they need to pull out all the stops to prevent democracy, because as soon as we can we are going to f****** pack that court.
Unless you are Leonard Leo, Harlan Crow or any other rich, Republican donor.
Puts the lie to Chief Justice Roberts’ sophist claim that there are no Republican or Democratic judges. Democratic appellate judges rule according to the law, using the facts uncovered at trial. Republican appellate judges make shit up.
Standard conservative judicial procedure: Delay any redistricting case until it’s within one year of the next election, and PRESTO it’s too late to make any changes. EVEN THOUGH the map in question had JUST BEEN put in place, no elections had used it, and the remedial map is PRACTICALLY IDENTICAL to the one that was recently replaced.
This is bullshiat.
Over and over again.
Excepting that they can repeat their nonsense rules as often as they like. Unlike actual Calvinball.
Power. For powers sake. To keep inequality.
Voting rights? We don’t need no stinking voting rights.
We need voting restrictions. And predictability. And by that we mean predictable that Republicans win…
always, every time, without question.
hey, why stop there. Remember, it’s basically permanent election season, all the time now. So it’s always too late!
It “works” for gun safety legislation…
No, that absolutely did not need to be said.
Don’t believe Republicans disregard science.
Take a look at mapping. They have the best science money can buy.
Roberts has loathed the Voting Rights Act since he was a young lawyer in the Reagan administration. This has been his goal for many years on the court, and is just the latest in a string of suits that erode voting rights of Americans.
The country has effectively become a plutocracy, government of, by snd for the wealthy.
Yeah, the folksy I will just call balls and strikes comment certainly doesn’t ring true.