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Thank you for this well thought out and clearly explained analysis!
December 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Thank you for this well thought out and clearly explained analysis!
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This supreme court is obviously corrupt. The rulings they come up with are completely wrong and inexcusable.
December 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
This supreme court is obviously corrupt. The rulings they come up with are completely wrong and inexcusable.
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Hell hath no fury like a gerrymandered Hispanic Texas activist woman scorned.
Let’s dance.
Let’s dance.
December 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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And beyond that, we need activists on the ground in some of the new Texas districts, driving the kind of voter turnout that will turn this around on Texas and Trump. Many of the districts created are designed to be close; they can be flipped blue. The work goes on.
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
And beyond that, we need activists on the ground in some of the new Texas districts, driving the kind of voter turnout that will turn this around on Texas and Trump. Many of the districts created are designed to be close; they can be flipped blue. The work goes on.
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I hope that Kagan’s dissent (in this case and SO many others) later becomes the law. This opinion is wrong, even without Alito’s full-on assault on minority voting rights. But in the meantime, California (and others?) must proceed with countermeasure gerrymandering.
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I hope that Kagan’s dissent (in this case and SO many others) later becomes the law. This opinion is wrong, even without Alito’s full-on assault on minority voting rights. But in the meantime, California (and others?) must proceed with countermeasure gerrymandering.
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The suggestion here is essentially that, if a gerrymander is done for partisan gain, allowing that to occur is a more important goal than preventing disenfranchisement based on race. The implications for minority voting rights are staggering.
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The suggestion here is essentially that, if a gerrymander is done for partisan gain, allowing that to occur is a more important goal than preventing disenfranchisement based on race. The implications for minority voting rights are staggering.
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4. Alito’s concurrence also suggests a more insidious claim, though it doesn’t have majority sign-off: that if partisan advantage is the impetus, the fact that it’s done in a race-based way doesn’t make it illegal. This goes beyond saying partisan gerrymandering is okay.
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
4. Alito’s concurrence also suggests a more insidious claim, though it doesn’t have majority sign-off: that if partisan advantage is the impetus, the fact that it’s done in a race-based way doesn’t make it illegal. This goes beyond saying partisan gerrymandering is okay.
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If this is the rule, states effectively get to create illegal maps without fear of being overturned, so long as they time it out in the most Machiavellian way. Purcell becomes not a shield protecting voters’ rights, but a sword used to destroy them.
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
If this is the rule, states effectively get to create illegal maps without fear of being overturned, so long as they time it out in the most Machiavellian way. Purcell becomes not a shield protecting voters’ rights, but a sword used to destroy them.
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3. The Court’s unsigned majority opinion alludes to the Purcell principle without citing it by saying the District Court cannot change the legislative map on the “eve of an election”—by ruling four months before primaries, on a map rushed out two months prior.
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
3. The Court’s unsigned majority opinion alludes to the Purcell principle without citing it by saying the District Court cannot change the legislative map on the “eve of an election”—by ruling four months before primaries, on a map rushed out two months prior.
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Aside from the fact that this is a patented Alito new rule, the Court ignores that the viable alternative map is, in fact, the one that the state was rushing to replace. The viable alternative already existed; the Court’s excuse for ignoring its usual review standard is a ruse.
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Aside from the fact that this is a patented Alito new rule, the Court ignores that the viable alternative map is, in fact, the one that the state was rushing to replace. The viable alternative already existed; the Court’s excuse for ignoring its usual review standard is a ruse.
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2. The Court’s unsigned majority opinion (buttressed by Alito’s concurrence) stated that the opposing side didn’t create a viable alternative map, and therefore the district court should have made a “dispositive or near-dispositive” adverse inference favoring Texas.
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
2. The Court’s unsigned majority opinion (buttressed by Alito’s concurrence) stated that the opposing side didn’t create a viable alternative map, and therefore the district court should have made a “dispositive or near-dispositive” adverse inference favoring Texas.
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A presumption is not the same as a judicial finding. It simply means that the opposing party must actively rebut it. And here, the district court found, based on both direct and circumstantial evidence, that the gerrymander was improperly race-based.
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
A presumption is not the same as a judicial finding. It simply means that the opposing party must actively rebut it. And here, the district court found, based on both direct and circumstantial evidence, that the gerrymander was improperly race-based.
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1. The Court’s unsigned majority opinion complains that the District Court, in finding an improper racial gerrymander, didn’t “honor the presumption” of proper legislative intent in how it construed evidence. But a court’s job is to weigh evidence against claims.
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
1. The Court’s unsigned majority opinion complains that the District Court, in finding an improper racial gerrymander, didn’t “honor the presumption” of proper legislative intent in how it construed evidence. But a court’s job is to weigh evidence against claims.
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At the outset, I always encourage reading the text of an opinion. In particular, the brilliant Justice Kagan eviscerates the majority’s results-driven opinion in her dissent. Think of the rest of my thread as the CliffsNotes version of what she wrote.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
www.supremecourt.gov
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
At the outset, I always encourage reading the text of an opinion. In particular, the brilliant Justice Kagan eviscerates the majority’s results-driven opinion in her dissent. Think of the rest of my thread as the CliffsNotes version of what she wrote.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Yup. And all before she got her citizenship. And fun fact: Trump’s dear Mommy was illegal as well!!!!!
December 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Yup. And all before she got her citizenship. And fun fact: Trump’s dear Mommy was illegal as well!!!!!
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Well, weren’t Jr, eric and Ivanka born to an immigrant mother🤔
December 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Well, weren’t Jr, eric and Ivanka born to an immigrant mother🤔
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In order to change the constitution, it has to be done by congress. And then the states have to ratify it. The fucked up Supreme Court nor any president has the power to change the constitution any other way. trump is trying to throw our constitution and country away. FUCK THEM BOTH.
December 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
In order to change the constitution, it has to be done by congress. And then the states have to ratify it. The fucked up Supreme Court nor any president has the power to change the constitution any other way. trump is trying to throw our constitution and country away. FUCK THEM BOTH.
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Narcissistic POS!
December 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Narcissistic POS!