The Supreme Court's new voting rights decision is a love letter to gerrymandering

In a surprise to fucking nobody. The only way the GQP can cling to power is ratfucking the system in their favor.

Who are good little dogs? You are, you guys are good little doggies. I know 6 Supreme Court justices who are getting free vacations this summer!

I think I have a favorite supreme court justice.

What a message to send to state legislators and mapmakers about racial gerrymandering. For reasons I’ve addressed, those actors will often have an incentive to use race as a proxy to achieve partisan ends. See supra, at 20–22. And occasionally they might want to straight-up suppress the electoral influence of minority voters. See Cooper, 581 U. S., at 319, n. 15. Go right ahead, this Court says to States today. Go ahead, though you have no recognized justification for using race, such as to comply with statutes ensuring equal voting rights. Go ahead, though you are (at best) using race as a short-cut to bring about partisan gains—to elect more Republicans in one case, more Democrats in another. It will be easy enough to cover your tracks in the end: Just raise a “possibility” of non-race-based decision-making, and it will be “dispositive.” Ante, at 16. And so this “odious” practice of sorting citizens, built on racial generalizations and exploiting racial divisions, will continue. Shaw, 509 U. S., at 643. In the electoral sphere especially, where “ugly patterns of pervasive racial discrimination” have so long governed, we should demand better—of ourselves, of our political representatives, and most of all of this Court. Id., at 639. Respectfully, I dissent.

I would encourage everyone to read her whole dissent.

So racial discrimination and disenfranchisement is acceptable, as long as it's in service of rigging elections and undermining democracy? Jesus fucking christ Alito, I know you're a corrupt piece of shit that shows utter disdain things like justice and the rule of law, but this is taking things to another level entirely. At this point it looks like you're trying to beat Dred Scott for the title of worst Supreme Court decision ever.

I think I need to officially change my bet. The Court probably will rule that absolute presidential immunity is a thing. I mean why not? The reasoning here is that politicians can do literally anything that isn't specifically called out as forbidden by the constitution, no matter how egregious or corrupt it may be.

Since we can't rely on even the tiniest hint of deference to even the most basic of legal principles, the only thing left that I can point to to argue against that outcome is the fact that it would immediately give Biden cover to open up 6 seats on the Court. I doubt they'd take that threat seriously, God knows I don't. But after this, I don't think I can even argue that a call to seal team six in that scenario would be doing less damage than leaving the Court in place as the grave diggers for liberty, equality, democracy, and the rule of law.

TL;DR: The decision was bad and everyone should feel bad.

Sooo you heard it right here folks from the high court of the US of A.

Racial discrimination is okay as long as a State you can pretend it's just "partisanship".

So much for 'checks and balances' hmm U.S.? Wow.

The dems should embrace the TSTs methodology and just do every single thing within the law as the repubs do. Or even the stuff against the law that is clearly never going to be enforced.

But they wont because their masters tell them not to. Tow the line, be a good willing-but-unable-to-help hero to the GOPs heel, make the people enjoy/hate the show. Either way, nothing changes.

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Can someone ELI5, are we doomed?

Rewriting the 14th amendment because they have the power not because its good law.

Imo we'd all be better off with proportional voting, its nearly impossible to gerrymander