supreme court decided that its ok to remove the only black district from an obviously, legally ruled gerrymandered maps.
once again, racists proving who they are all the way to the top.
Don’t forget that two of the sitting Supreme Court Justices committed perjury during their testimony before Congress while interviewing for the job. Another has admitted to accepting bribes valued in the millions from parties with matters before the court. None of them have faced any repercussions.
Not at all surprising since they also said racism was over because Obama was elected pre3
Pretty much in line with the other obviously trash rulings from the Roberts court on the voting rights act. History will not look back kindly on Roberts.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-strikes-down-section-of-voting-rights-act/
There won’t be history when were all dead from climate change and the planet is a ball of lifeless rock.
I don’t understand mpd SCOTUS; they force certain states to redraw gerrymandered maps, then hand this Win to TX. Can an attorney please make it make sense?
Technically, SCOTUS didn’t do anything. They refused to take up the case, which means the 5th Circuit’s ruling, that superseded both lower courts that affirmed it was illegal by saying “we’ll address it next year after the primaries,” was the final say.
The thing that needs to be made sense of is why the 5th Circuit is allowed to operate in bad-faith as a rubber stamp for everything Conservative.
Pretty sure they just have a list from major donors that tell them which cases to pick and how to rule.
I am shocked I tell you, shocked!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In October, a District Court ruled the redrawn map was unlawful, violated the Voting Rights Act and ordered a new one should be created.
Later, the Fifth Circuit put its ruling on hold and is due to review it next year, two months after Texas’ primary contest in March 2024.
Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at the University of Texas School of Law, told the news network that the case has “broader implications.”
“The [Fifth Circuit] court of appeals justified letting the unlawful map stay in place in a way that will make it much harder, going forward, for plaintiffs in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Texas to persuade any federal judge to block an unlawful map except in very short windows after elections take place,” he said.
Leon County Circuit Judge J. Lee Marsh said in September that a suit against the map, approved by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, was correct.
The map “results in the diminishment of Black voters’ ability to elect their candidate of choice in violation of the Florida constitution,” Judge Marsh wrote in a ruling.
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