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David Nir
@davidnir.com

To me, the NY redistricting case feels like a constitutional crisis in miniature. The Supreme Court is issuing orders it "cannot" issue, Sotomayor explains in her dissent. Yet it did so anyway. So how should the NY courts react to an order that should never have issued?

David Nir
@davidnir.com

Agree with this take. Sotomayor was clear and correct: "Until defendants try to obtain relief from New York’s highest court, this Court cannot and should not act." SCOTUS' opinion is a legal nullity. About as binding as shouting, "I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!"

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app

reading over Malliotakis v. Williams and lowkey think New York courts/the NY Redistricting Commission should be like...since the Supreme Court clearly lacked jurisdiction to intervene in the case at this time, we are treating it as the nonbinding advisory opinion that it is, thanks for the input tho

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