, the Supreme Court reinstated the proposed congressional district maps in Alabama that two different lower courts had held diluted the power of Black voters in violation of the Voting Rights Act. The ruling is temporary — the Justices agreed to take up Alabama’s appeal of the lower court rulings in their October 2022 term. But as election law scholar Rick Hasen
, Monday’s decision has both immediate short- and long-term effects: Alabama’s racially gerrymandered maps will now be used at least through the 2022 midterms, and the justices have made it harder forhas dubbed the “shadow docket” — the unsigned, unexplained orders that comprise a majority of the Supreme Court’s workload. As I’ve documented, although the court has always had a shadow docket, in the last five years we have seen dramatic changes in exactly what the court uses itThe changes have not been for the better.
this is an illegitimate court installed by a party that would end democracy. if this isn't fixed, we are done.
Hack court. Expand it now or give up this grand experiment.
mistakeswerema3 Unqualified people on the court equals a no holds barred attack on the constitution.
They wanted a court full of political hacks; they got a court full of political hacks.
“If the law don’t fit, you must adjudicate around it” Jonnny Cochran Oh wait, wrong acknowledgment. I meant the 5 republican Supreme Court un-justices