Sucks that it's surprising but good news I guess?

Quote :

"moron All American 34985 Posts user info edit post They do NOT completely gut the voting rights act as many we’re expecting. They uphold that districts should not be drawn to diminish racial groups https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/federal-court-delivers-major-win-for-black-voters-in-louisiana-state-redistricting-battle/ "

[Edited on August 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM. Reason : Oops new page]

8/14/2025 7:16:49 PM

Wait that's not scotus, so that could still be overturned with the other case right?

[Edited on August 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM. Reason : D]

8/14/2025 8:23:17 PM

Youre right i'm jumping the gun i guess

8/15/2025 12:15:20 AM

Quote :

"“The supreme court was never intended to function like this. Never before has it entertained such challenges from the president, and never before has it decided them so flippantly.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/21/justice-john-roberts-supreme-court

Quote :

""In what is, in my view, still one of the most embarrassing paragraphs to appear in the pages of the United States Reporter, Roberts wraps in Rucho by noting that the holding constrains only federal courts; Congress, he says, would remain free to enact anti-gerrymandering legislation, as would lawmakers at the state level. The argument here is that voters who are dissatisfied with corruption in the political process don’t actually need John Roberts’s help, because they can always seek redress of their grievances via the aforementioned corrupt political process. This is roughly analogous to the fire department pulling up to a burning house, attaching the hoses to fire hydrants, and then politely informing the owner that it could rain any minute.""

https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/texas-redistricting-rucho-john-roberts-gerrymandering/

Quote :

""The Supreme Court struck down Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, one of the most important laws ever enacted by Congress, which had forbidden certain states and counties with long histories of racial discrimination from enacting new voting measures without the consent of Congress or a special three-judge court. The conservative justices invented an equal state sovereignty principle requiring Congress to have a strong reason to treat different states differently when exercising its power to enforce the 15th Amendment through “appropriate legislation.” That anti-historical, non-textual equal state sovereignty principle had been specifically rejected in a prior case, South Carolina v. Katzenbach. Just days after the decision, Texas and North Carolina enacted tighter voting rules hurting minorities, and red States have continued that trend to this very day. ""

https://www.dorfonlaw.org/2025/08/mourning-chief-justice-roberts-twenty.html?m=1

[Edited on August 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM. Reason : D]

8/22/2025 6:23:45 PM

Quote :

"SCOTUS thought they could ride the tiger and get what they wanted ideologically. In exchange, they would give him everything he wanted except the Fed. Just leave the Fed alone and you can ignore all federal law. But it ended the same way it has for everyone who tried to ride the tiger since 2016."

https://bsky.app/profile/jonmladd.bsky.social/post/3lxbcanjn3k2j

8/25/2025 10:55:22 PM