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NEW: Just 10 days before the primary election, SCOTUS eliminated a Black-majority district. But in 2022, that same court said it was too close to an election to give Black voters a fairer map. These decisions reveal the same pattern: urgency for white voters, and white voters only.

democracydocket.comPurcell is not a legal principle. It's a double standardAt the heart of these cases is the Purcell principle — the idea that courts should avoid changing voting or election rules too close to an election.

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Purcell is misnamed just like the Unitary Executive Theory is misnamed. They (and other Republican "principles") could more accurately be called the "Republican Heads-We-Win, Tails-You-Lose Principle"

Most of these decisions were made thirty or forty years ago when they all first joined the Federalist Society in law school and were indoctrinated in their made up judicial philosophy which was reverse engineered from the goal of ending abortion and terminating black voting rights.

The current “supreme” court has 6 republican partisan hacks - much worse than the clearly partisan hacks stealing the 2000 Bush v. Gore election for Bush, without which the current partisans would likely not be around. F’ thepartisan Rehnquist court and the even more partisan Roberts’ court.