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Mark Joseph Stern

@mjsdc.bsky.social

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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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

again, it is just arrogance. “there is one true meaning of the constitution and it can only be derived by a special caste of lawyers with a special interpretative lens and once discovered it is binding.”

December 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism

December 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM

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Jessica Pishko

@jesspish.bsky.social

Society feels disordered and lawless. But this is because liberalism and lots of liberal movements had fatal flaws that are now very obvious. I think many people are grasping for what they know to fix it.

December 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM