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It’s kind of wild that a dozen states keep suing asking, “can I be racist now?” to no avail.
And even trying it again after being told no.
"what about... Now?
They're not really being told "no", though; mainly the Supreme Court is simply not taking the cases and leaving lower rulings in place. They could take one of these cases and issue a ruling that firmly shuts everything else down but they haven't done that. One could surmise that they haven't done that because the Federalist Society "justices" are waiting for a case with facts they like more to issue the ruling they want in a narrow way that will hurt Democrats and minorities without impacting the GOP. They're looking for a way to tailor a ruling that prevents blue states from gerrymandering while allowing the GOP the legal right to pick their voters in red states.
And, as we've seen with the cases of the praying football coach and wedding website, they don't even care if the cases are real or not as long as they can use them to navigate to the ruling they wanted to issue all along.
The Supreme Court already took this case. And to everyone's surprise, Roberts and Kavanaugh sided with the liberals and shot down the practice of racial gerrymandering. So Alabama really is being told "no". Again.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday handed a defeat to Alabama Republicans for the second time in three months, rejecting their latest attempt to use a congressional map that includes only one majority-Black district.
The decision was in line with the Supreme Court ruling against the state in June that reaffirmed a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act.
This is interesting because my state eliminated its majority black districts and nothing happened beyond people complaining.
Next step should be tasking a special master to design the electoral maps & the US Marshall service enforcing Alabama's use of them.
this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2023
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