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Watching all these GOP-controlled states race each other to gerrymander their districts before the 2026 midterms, it is hard for me to look at the timing of Callais and not conclude that the conservative justices decided the case on the earlier side to do their fellow Republicans a favor

ballsandstrikes.substack.comThe Republican Justices Want to Help Republican Politicians Win ElectionsThe Supreme Court just issued a decision making it easier for lawmakers to racially gerrymander their states. Republicans are already racing to take advantage.

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Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama are all Jim Crow States. LA, AL, and MS took Callais as a green light to go back to the old ways.

For better or for worse, people should understand that the norms governing US politics for much of the past century are now gone. Politics is now smash mouth. If the GOP loses in 2026 and 2028 the Democrats need to take a flamethrower to the GOP. Massive public corruption trials are just the start.

Hard for me not to conclude conservative “justices” are engaged in premeditated treason. The unjust ruling permitting Republican politicians to draw districts to entrench power while disenfranchising voters = taxation without representation.

Roberts has the smile of a son of a bitch. What’s that German word for a face that needs to be punched? That’s it. That’s his face. Loathsome.

Might be wishful thinking, but I really think this will blow up in their faces. Racing to dilute every GOP "safe" seat right before what looks likely to be a wave election for Dems? Add that it's going to be harder to suppress votes in clearly Dem areas wo catching GOP voters in the same net.

Oh! 💯. Just like the did Trump a solid on his criminal cases…so, the GOP could start implementing their Project 2025 plan.

Roberts for sure knows what a ripoff our health care system is, nearly a trillion dollars a year. Roberts has been the lawyer for the people who are ripping us off since he worked for HW Bush. That’s why he kept the ACA and made sure no one could ever fix it.

Amazingly, in the wake of this news, four D senators voted for Trump appointed Federal judges. This is a measure of how unfit the Democratic establishment is even at this late date. The electorate - even white - is not gonna vote the Rs back into majority in the House, but I fear the Dem "moderates"

Obviously true. And it follows that, by acting as unelected and unaccountable partisans, the MAGA SCOTUS has forfeited any expectation for its rulings be treated any differently from a Fox News broadcast, or indeed that they be followed at all.

I mean, of course they did. These guys aren’t interested in truth or reason. They want a victory for their thought experiment. It’s the driving force behind everything they do and always has been.

I know the legal community doesn't want to do anything to erode the authority of US courts. But these Supremes have delegitimized themselves time and again. I don't know what to do about it but we have to acknowledge it.

Oh if they thought it might help Democrats they would have fifteen pages about how it's too close to an election to make any kind of change like this, and the tradition of decennial redistricting is integral to the America our forefathers envisioned... Clown show.

There is a part of me that suspects that Alito and Thomas, one or both, may retire before the midterms to allow Trump to put two more Justices on the Court. They are that conniving and hateful.

Racism, misogyny, xenophobia, and homophobia are widely condemned as destructive forces that cause deep societal harm. These ideologies are consistently identified as drivers of violence, discrimination, and the marginalization of vulnerable groups. MAGA SCOTUS SUPPORTS THEM ALL !!!!!!

Racism, misogyny, xenophobia, and homophobia are widely condemned as destructive forces that cause deep societal harm. These ideologies are consistently identified as drivers of violence, discrimination, and the marginalization of vulnerable groups. MAGA SCOTUS SUPPORTS THEM ALL !!!!!!

The 6 radical right-wing robes on scotus want a white Republican patriarchal so-called Christian electorate shamefully disgusting and Thomas thinks his white wife is going to save him.

I have tried to explain this on Social Media for YEARS. I deeply appreciate the Constitutional analyses by experts like Tribe, Vladeck and Luttig. If weever restore SCOTUS to is designed role (see, eg, “The Least Dangerous Branch” by Alexander Bickel) that starts w institutional recognition it is a

2/countermajoritarian branch in a democracy, avoids making broad Const pronouncements, defers to the legislature and takes precedent very seriously, etc, those analyses will be gems. But if you want to understand and predict what the Roberts Court will do, you need to grasp an entirely different

3/reality. First, the Powell Memo. Written by Lewis Powell when he was Counsel to U.S. Chamber of Commerce, as a blinking red light to the biz community that a)the demographic shift was inexorable; b)their policies would become increasingly unpopular; c) they needed their own media infrastructure

4)and d)the Courts were the Branch where absolute rule untethered to popular sentiment could be achieved. Powell later became a Justice, but never revealed the memo. Roberts and Alito have been staunchly anti voting forever. Alito got his job in the Reagan DoJ by telling them he was against Baker v

Of course they did, they always rush through opinions when it helps Trump and republicans. Look how long it took them to decide on tariffs compared to shutting down Biden’s student loan forgiveness.

Very broadly speaking, the Court leaves its biggest cases to the end of the term. Shelby County was June 25, 2013. Brnovich, July 1, 2021. Those dates would be too late for Callais to matter. But with midterms looming and a GOP House majority looking fragile, this decision came in late April. Huh!

ballsandstrikes.orgSix Conservative Activists Killed the Voting Rights ActThe Supreme Court's conservatives have spent their careers working to kill the Voting Rights Act. They just did it.

It is true that Shelby County and Brnovich were argued later in the term than Callais. But forgive me for not giving the benefit of the doubt to a Supreme Court that has spent more than a decade gutting the VRA. The justices know how to move slowly when they want to! They know how to move fast, too.

Slave states are not smart enough to understand what happens to them next because they choose stupid, vile racists to “govern” them.

The wingnut majority has the bit in their teeth, they're just running buck wild over the constitution in the apparent belief that there are no constraints and no consequences for their lawlessness.

The Republican hold on power continues to hinge mostly on rural, older Americans. That’s not a permanent state of affairs no matter what we think, eventually a populace needs to have its voice heard. Rigging the rules now is required to maintain power esp with T unpopularity.

The court's own Purcell Principle says you can't make changes close to an election, Seems to me that once primaries are happening (La) or getting close (like deadlines for petitioning to be on ballot), it is too late to even think about redistricting. But I guess precedents are no longer important.

Entirely appropriate to refer to the 6 justices as Republican. "Conservative" does not describe all their decisions, but party affiliations does. Some of them served for years as Party operatives to make their bones, to earn the confidence of Republican presidents that they would vote Republican.

So soon i guess Loving will get overturned, segregation will be back in full force, slavery will be legal. Minorities and women won’t be able to vote, own properties. The Chinese exclusion act reenacted. The Supremely Corrupt court of John Roberts will see to it.