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it is weird for SCOTUS to set aside court orders without any explanation. sure looks like home cooking.
it is weird for SCOTUS to set aside court orders without any explanation. sure looks like home cooking.
simply put, if a state delays an egregious gerrymander for as long as possible, they get one free election with an illegal map.
looks that way.
Justice Jackson went originalist this morning to pierce the myth that the 14th Amendment is supposed to be color blind.
sounds about right
https://twitter.com/benji_cardoso/st...13548904046594The fundamental idea of the legal conservative movement is that the post-Civil War amendments aren’t really the Cons ution
What's the good government rationale for state governors hijacking redistricting?
Wisconsin can't really vote its way out of this.
SCOTUS intervening in Wisconsin's state leg redistricting process due to a few sentences of dicta about the Voting Rights Act that Hagedorn included in his state supreme court opinion that adopted Evers' state leg map is a new low in terms of bad faith judicial activism.
The Wisconsin GOP filed cert with SCOTUS as a total Hail Mary and was stunned when SCOTUS granted their request. In 2019, SCOTUS clearly said in Rucho that federal courts have no jurisdiction over partisan gerrymandering disputes, then in 2022 when the WI GOP wanted its hyper gerrymandered state leg map adopted SCOTUS basically says "lol just kidding we can intervene when it helps Republicans"
Last edited by Will Hunting; 10-27-2022 at 10:29 AM.
even with the most illegal map in the world against them, the Dems managed to pick up a seat in Ohio.
Mid-decade redistricting we're now going to see:
- With a conservative NC Supreme Court, the GOP will pass a ruthless map. Probably a 10R - 4D map, with one of the D districts being a black belt district that'll turn red due to population loss.
- The Minnesota Dems have legal grounds to draw a new map since the current map is court drawn, and they should. Make Angie Craig's district bluer and make MN-01 a Biden district.
- If the Dems win the Wisconsin supreme court seat next year, they're definitely going to sue and have all the maps redrawn to be fairer.
- The Ohio GOP could be aggressive and try to draw harsher maps with a GOP SC majority but I think they keep their map the same
- If the SC miraculously rules that the VRA requires a 2nd black Alabama district, that'd be another Dem pickup
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