Supreme Court allows states to use unlawfully gerrymandered congressional maps in the 2022 midterm e

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elections

In the upcoming midterm elections, states may use maps that a federal court has found unlawful.

You read that right: The U.S. Supreme Court recently barred federal courts from requiring states to fix their newly adopted, but unlawful, congressional maps before the 2022 midterm congressional elections.

In Merrill v. Milligan, the Supreme Court in February 2022, stayed the decision of a lower court that ruled Alabama had improperly redistricted its congressional seats. The lower court found Alabama’s maps resulted in Black and Democratic voters wielding less political power in Alabama’s congressional delegation than they otherwise would or should. It required Alabama to redraw its congressional map immediately.

The Supreme Court left Alabama’s congressional redistricting – deemed a violation of the Voting Rights Act by the lower court – in place through the 2022 midterm elections, without deciding for itself whether the maps are unlawful.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/supreme-court-allows-states-unlawfully-121531820.html

[LiberatedUSA]

1. If anyone does not see where this is going...

…raise your hand and someone will be along shortly to explain to you why Putin always manages to win his elections.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. The galling thing about this, is that the conservative Supreme Court is

Protecting its emerging dynasty.

[edhopper]

3. But if I say the fix is in

the the GOP will win in November by hook or crook, I get alerted for not being pro-Democratic.

[gab13by13]

4. I will say it for you then,

The Fix Is IN.

The same thing happened in Ohio, it submitted the same gerrymandered map that the courts rejected.

The Magats are assembling an army of poll people in heavy Democratic precincts to disrupt and/or delay Democrats voting. DOJ does have a civil rights division which could counter this but I'm not counting on it.

[LiberatedUSA]

7. What's that I hear?

Someone performing Songe d’Automne? Guess it is time to waltz.

[gratuitous]

5. If only it were as easy to deprive someone of their Second Amendment rights

But who really needs that 15th Amendment? If it was really important, it would been added to the Constitution sooner!

[In It to Win It]

6. They cut off every avenue for fixing crooked maps, even when it violates federal law

Slightly unrelated but when Sam Alito made the remark his the Dobbs draft opinion about women and their electoral power, I thought it was so disingenuous. They can't exercise that political power when it's near impossible for the side that opposes their view to lose.

The same goes here. The court will disingenuously say to a group they are not without options and they could always use their political power to make change, but the court will block every remedy available that would give that group access to political power.

[RAB910]

8. The republicans on the Supreme Court are treasonous scum

[drray23]

9. it's always the same pattern

they push outrageous redistricting maps, get sued, appeal and drag the process close enough to elections that a judge then says its too late to change it now.
Even if it's eventually reversed afterwards, the deed is done.