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Lead singer & Product Manager. Lives in #Seattle, #SanJose grown. Husband, 2x dad, lefty Christian. Boglehead/YIMBY. PC gaming, Star Trek, Anime, other stuff. Grillpilled on pellets and propane. My Opins and no one else’s
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As Kagan notes, SCOTUS has given states a cheat code to enact illegally racist voting laws: just pass them close enough to an election that the Purcell principle will bar judicial review!

Under this logic, courts couldn’t block actual Jim Crow laws within a year of an election. It can’t be right.
And even supposing it is now the ninth or tenth hour, whose choice was that? It was of course the Texas legisla- ture that decided to change its map six months before a March primary. The plaintiffs could not have moved any faster: They requested an injunction before the new law was even signed. And to try to speed the litigation, they de- clined discovery. (That decision, by the way, probably ac- counted for their failure to submit an alternative map, which to be probative must be based on the State’s particu- lar districting criteria. See supra, at 13 n.) The District Court moved expeditiously too, issuing its 160-page opinion (on November 18) just a month after post-hearing briefing concluded. No one dilly-dallied in this case. The District Court ruled as “late” as it did because the legislature en- acted a new map less than three months before. If Purcell prevents such a ruling, it gives every State the opportunity to hold an unlawful election. The District Court, once again aptly, made the point: Were judicial re- view so broadly foreclosed, then to implement even a “bla- tantly unconstitutional map,” the “Legislature would need only to pass” it on a schedule like this one. App. 154–155. That cannot be the law—except of course that today it is. According to the majority, Texas had a free pass to redis- trict in August 2025 for the 2026 House elections. See ante, at 2. All that the plaintiffs can hope for is better luck in 2028.
December 4, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Minnesota, here's a sign to show your support for Somali neighbors. Share it, print it, pass it on.

**updated PDF link**

PDF here >> www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/s89ru...
December 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Send in da clownz baby
December 3, 2025 at 6:08 AM