Bunch of ratfucking fascists.
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Alito lets Texas reinstate gerrymandered House map that could give GOP 5 more seats
(www.politico.com)
That’s mean to rats!
The fact that they can each rule individually is really batshit insane. They should have to have a majority for any ruling. Fuck the Supreme Cunts.
This is a little different. When it comes to "emergency" things like this, coming up from one of the Federal courts, they first go to a single judge to decide how to proceed. This suit was raised in Texas, which happens to be a judicial district which Alito oversees.
So while he did make an individual ruling reinstating the map, his job is also to help facilitate the emergency hearing with the full court. He asked for briefs by Monday, which is an indication he wants this over with quickly. (But, I think the alacrity is because he knows the fix is already in, and has enough votes among his fellow justices to uphold the new map, and they are just trying to make the justification work after the fact.)
But like other emergency orders coming from the SCOTUS, we will just hear about a decision, and not necessarily the overall vote. But I expect that one of the Liberal judges already has her dissent written, since she knows how it will likely end up.
So that means what California is doing is fine right? Right ‽
If Alito can solo allow the ratfucking in Texas to occur, then Justice Jackson can absolutely decline any appeals to the California ruling I would think.
The problem is that Jackson is acting in good faith while Alito is not. I can't actually blame her for that. We can't prevent the destruction of the rule of law by disregarding the rule of law when it is inconvenient for us. There are a lot of areas where we need to break with conventional and tradition because of bad faith, but the actual law should not be one of them.
That’s actually exactly how you prevent the destruction of the rule of law. Gather up an illegal militia armed to the teeth and march on your oppressors door step. Playing by the rules when the other team is not is a guaranteed loss and in this case is facilitating the erosion of democracy itself. But hey, their conscience is clear so that’s a win I guess.
I was unclear. What I oppose is distorting the law. I think that breaking the law is a necessary part of resisting the fascist takeover. Mis-interpreting or changing the law should be avoided, except where necessary to fix changes that were made by the fascists.
When questioned on the topic, Alito defended his ruling by saying "Well, I'm pro racism, obviously. I'm not going to let the rule of law get in the way of that."
For the record, this might not be a win for the GOP.
The thing about gerrymandering is that you get wins in places you wouldn't by stealing your safety net from places where your win is assured.
As long as everything goes well, that gives you some extra seats.
But if the math changes - say, because you're calculating your odds off of a massive swing towards your party from Hispanic voters that has completely evaporated in the year since the election thanks to the president's horrific immigration enforcement policies - you can end up losing not only the seats you tried to rig in your favour, but also the seats you stole that safety net from.
This is why other states with plans to gerrymander additional seats suddenly suspended those plans after Nov 4th. If things continue the way they are this plan could see the GOP almost wiped out in Texas.
Yeah when anti MAGA forces' hard work between now and next Nov pay off and we have a 300+ Democratic majority in the House it's gonna be hilarious watching Trump blame all this on Stephen Miller and a bunch of other people.
gross