Kagan with more dispositive proof of Roberts Court Calvinball
December 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Kagan with more dispositive proof of Roberts Court Calvinball
Justice Kagan is correct. Texans deserve better.
December 5, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Justice Kagan is correct. Texans deserve better.
Kagan: “this Court’s eagerness to playact a district court here has serious consequence.”
Yes.
Yes.
December 5, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Kagan: “this Court’s eagerness to playact a district court here has serious consequence.”
Yes.
Yes.
Lmao Kagan being like 'yup, right here motherfucker'
Kagan with more dispositive proof of Roberts Court Calvinball
December 5, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Lmao Kagan being like 'yup, right here motherfucker'
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has permitted Texas to keep its newly redistricted, GOP-favorable congressional map in 2026.
Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson dissent.
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Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson dissent.
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December 4, 2025 at 11:04 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has permitted Texas to keep its newly redistricted, GOP-favorable congressional map in 2026.
Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson dissent.
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Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson dissent.
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Strong dissent from Justice Kagan, joined by Justices Jackson and Sotomayor. Here is how that closes
December 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Strong dissent from Justice Kagan, joined by Justices Jackson and Sotomayor. Here is how that closes
Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
new emma kagan art soon 👀
December 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
new emma kagan art soon 👀
Justice Kagan in her dissent:
“Today’s order disserves the millions of Texans whom the District Court found were assigned to their new districts based on their race.”
“Today’s order disserves the millions of Texans whom the District Court found were assigned to their new districts based on their race.”
BREAKING
The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing the GOP gerrymandered Texas congressional map to stand in a 6-3 decision, with Kagan, Sotomayor, and Brown-Jackson dissenting.
The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing the GOP gerrymandered Texas congressional map to stand in a 6-3 decision, with Kagan, Sotomayor, and Brown-Jackson dissenting.
December 4, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Justice Kagan in her dissent:
“Today’s order disserves the millions of Texans whom the District Court found were assigned to their new districts based on their race.”
“Today’s order disserves the millions of Texans whom the District Court found were assigned to their new districts based on their race.”
Kagan: "Today's order disrespects the work of a District Court that did everything one could ask to carry out its charge—that put aside every consideration except getting the issue before it right."
December 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Kagan: "Today's order disrespects the work of a District Court that did everything one could ask to carry out its charge—that put aside every consideration except getting the issue before it right."
BREAKING
The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing the GOP gerrymandered Texas congressional map to stand in a 6-3 decision, with Kagan, Sotomayor, and Brown-Jackson dissenting.
The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing the GOP gerrymandered Texas congressional map to stand in a 6-3 decision, with Kagan, Sotomayor, and Brown-Jackson dissenting.
December 4, 2025 at 11:13 PM
BREAKING
The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing the GOP gerrymandered Texas congressional map to stand in a 6-3 decision, with Kagan, Sotomayor, and Brown-Jackson dissenting.
The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing the GOP gerrymandered Texas congressional map to stand in a 6-3 decision, with Kagan, Sotomayor, and Brown-Jackson dissenting.
Scathing dissent from Justice Kagan:
"[T]his Court reverses that judgment based on its perusal, over a holiday weekend, of a cold paper record. We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision."
"[T]his Court reverses that judgment based on its perusal, over a holiday weekend, of a cold paper record. We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision."
Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT REVIVES REDRAWN PRO-REPUBLICAN TEXAS VOTING MAP INTENDED TO HELP TRUMP'S PARTY KEEP CONTROL OF CONGRESS
December 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Scathing dissent from Justice Kagan:
"[T]his Court reverses that judgment based on its perusal, over a holiday weekend, of a cold paper record. We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision."
"[T]his Court reverses that judgment based on its perusal, over a holiday weekend, of a cold paper record. We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision."
“We are a higher court, but not a better one”: Kagan rages at SCOTUS decision to allow Texas maps
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"We are a higher court, but not a better one": Kagan rages at SCOTUS decision to allow Texas maps - Salon.com
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December 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
“We are a higher court, but not a better one”: Kagan rages at SCOTUS decision to allow Texas maps
Kagan: "And today's order disserves the millions of Texans whom the District Court found were assigned to their new districts based on their race. Because this Court's precedents and our Constitution demand better, I respectfully dissent."
December 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Kagan: "And today's order disserves the millions of Texans whom the District Court found were assigned to their new districts based on their race. Because this Court's precedents and our Constitution demand better, I respectfully dissent."
UPDATE: SCOTUS overturns
“Supreme Court green lights Texas’ efforts to use a new congressional map favorable to Republicans despite a lower court’s ruling it unconstitutionally sorts voters based on race”
KAGAN DISSENT: “disserves millions of Texans” www.scotusblog.com/2025/12/supr...
“Supreme Court green lights Texas’ efforts to use a new congressional map favorable to Republicans despite a lower court’s ruling it unconstitutionally sorts voters based on race”
KAGAN DISSENT: “disserves millions of Texans” www.scotusblog.com/2025/12/supr...
December 5, 2025 at 1:33 AM
UPDATE: SCOTUS overturns
“Supreme Court green lights Texas’ efforts to use a new congressional map favorable to Republicans despite a lower court’s ruling it unconstitutionally sorts voters based on race”
KAGAN DISSENT: “disserves millions of Texans” www.scotusblog.com/2025/12/supr...
“Supreme Court green lights Texas’ efforts to use a new congressional map favorable to Republicans despite a lower court’s ruling it unconstitutionally sorts voters based on race”
KAGAN DISSENT: “disserves millions of Texans” www.scotusblog.com/2025/12/supr...
Justice Kagan, writing for the three liberals: "The majority today loses sight of its proper role. ... We know better, the majority declares today. I cannot think of a reason why."
December 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Justice Kagan, writing for the three liberals: "The majority today loses sight of its proper role. ... We know better, the majority declares today. I cannot think of a reason why."
(Also, real heads see what Kagan did there with that Scalia quote)
Kagan with more dispositive proof of Roberts Court Calvinball
December 5, 2025 at 12:32 AM
(Also, real heads see what Kagan did there with that Scalia quote)
Alito on the first point he finds “decisive”: “the impetus for the adoption of the Texas map…was partisan advantage plain & simple.”
Red herring. Everyone concedes this.
Kagan with the actual dispositive question: “did TX accomplish its partisan objectives by means of a racial gerrymander?”
Red herring. Everyone concedes this.
Kagan with the actual dispositive question: “did TX accomplish its partisan objectives by means of a racial gerrymander?”
December 5, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Alito on the first point he finds “decisive”: “the impetus for the adoption of the Texas map…was partisan advantage plain & simple.”
Red herring. Everyone concedes this.
Kagan with the actual dispositive question: “did TX accomplish its partisan objectives by means of a racial gerrymander?”
Red herring. Everyone concedes this.
Kagan with the actual dispositive question: “did TX accomplish its partisan objectives by means of a racial gerrymander?”
Kagan, on target:
“On clear-error review, what basis does the majority have to … substitute its own understanding of the direct evidence for the District Court’s? The short answer is: it has none.”
“On clear-error review, what basis does the majority have to … substitute its own understanding of the direct evidence for the District Court’s? The short answer is: it has none.”
Kagan with more dispositive proof of Roberts Court Calvinball
December 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Kagan, on target:
“On clear-error review, what basis does the majority have to … substitute its own understanding of the direct evidence for the District Court’s? The short answer is: it has none.”
“On clear-error review, what basis does the majority have to … substitute its own understanding of the direct evidence for the District Court’s? The short answer is: it has none.”
god bless justice elena kagan, who painstakingly explains in her dissent every single way that the SCOTUS decision in the TX redistricting case really doesn't make sense
December 5, 2025 at 2:06 AM
god bless justice elena kagan, who painstakingly explains in her dissent every single way that the SCOTUS decision in the TX redistricting case really doesn't make sense
Kagan: Court “announces that Texas may run next year’s elections with a map the District Court found to have violated all our oft-repeated strictures about the use of race in districting. Today’s order,” she continued, “disrespects the work of a District Cour that did everything one could ask..."
December 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Kagan: Court “announces that Texas may run next year’s elections with a map the District Court found to have violated all our oft-repeated strictures about the use of race in districting. Today’s order,” she continued, “disrespects the work of a District Cour that did everything one could ask..."
As I have been lamenting for years, the clear erroneous standard for District Court findings of fact has been rendered null & void by this Court.
Justice Kagan in dissent:
“We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision.”
Justice Kagan in dissent:
“We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision.”
December 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
As I have been lamenting for years, the clear erroneous standard for District Court findings of fact has been rendered null & void by this Court.
Justice Kagan in dissent:
“We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision.”
Justice Kagan in dissent:
“We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision.”
Kagan on the majority's dismissal of the lower court's review: "We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision."
December 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Kagan on the majority's dismissal of the lower court's review: "We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision."
There’s also something especially crazy-making about SCOTUS’s “eagerness to playact a district court” (Kagan) in a *shadow docket* decision that doesn’t really engage with the facts at all. The gap between the professionalism of the district courts and SCOTUS’s arbitrariness couldn’t be more obvious
There are so many things wrong with this ruling, including the total disregard for the clear error standard. But what really gets me is the notion that legislatures can evade judicial review of their maps simply by passing them as close as possible to Election Day
December 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
There’s also something especially crazy-making about SCOTUS’s “eagerness to playact a district court” (Kagan) in a *shadow docket* decision that doesn’t really engage with the facts at all. The gap between the professionalism of the district courts and SCOTUS’s arbitrariness couldn’t be more obvious