Posted on 02/07/2022 8:37:37 PM PST by SeekAndFind
After several days of bad news on the redistricting front, including a bad decision in North Carolina for the GOP-drawn map there, a big win has been delivered to Republicans. The US Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 to halt a lower court order in Alabama that it must redraw its previously passed Congressional map.
That means a 6-1 Republican to Democrat map will now go into effect in 2022, and given the makeup of the Supreme Court, there’s no reason to believe it gets struck down at any point past that.
BREAKING: By a 5–4 vote, with Roberts joining the liberals in dissent, the Supreme Court halts a lower court order that required Alabama to redraw its congressional map, which diluted Black votes in violation of the Voting Rights Act.
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) February 7, 2022
The SCOTUS stay is obviously a huge win for Republicans and a blow to a coalition of Dems/civil rights groups seeking an additional Black opportunity seat in AL (and LA/SC). The 6R-1D GOP map will stand for 2022, and possibly longer.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) February 7, 2022
As one of my RedState colleagues previously speculated, challenging the Alabama map on the grounds of the Voting Rights Act was a total miscalculation for Democrats. They were always an underdog in stopping the GOP map in Alabama, but worse for them, the court has also granted cert to the case, with a full decision likely to come in 2023. That decision is unlikely to be kind to those who want to keep weaponizing the VRA to produce Democrat-stacked maps while not allowing Republicans to gerrymander.
What that means is that not only did Democrats lose in this specific instance, but they could lose a lot more, all across the country in regards to their use of racial quotas for congressional districts once a final decision is delivered.
It doesn’t take a legal genius to see that a court skeptical about the idea of racial quotas (for the Roberts-doubters, I’d point you toward his record on affirmative action and various voting rights grifts as well as his opinions acknowledging that no matter how virtuous the intent, the government can’t make decisions based primarily on race) that has already done away with “pre-clearance” isn’t very far away from saying that unless you can prove that diluting the minority vote was the intent of drawing a district, the state’s version of the map prevails.
The potential irony of this decision is just too much to contemplate. Activist groups suing Alabama over a 30-year-old district map could potentially destroy the racial gerrymandering grift for the entire country.
That’s exactly what appears to be happening, and while Justice John Roberts wussed out as usual in the decision to lift the order, his dissent notes that he believes the only holdup is that the court needs to tear apart past bad precedent before he flips. In other words, he’s likely to join a 6-3 majority next year in delivering a decisive blow to Democrat attempts to rig the gerrymandering process (i.e. where they can draw 22-4 D to R maps in New York but Republican states can’t return the favor).
This was always the danger of going scorched earth on GOP redistricting attempts. The Supreme Court is not favorable to the left’s point of view on the VRA. By not just letting things slide in Alabama, Democrats will now pay a far steeper price than just losing one seat down South. You can expect Republicans in North Carolina to also seek relief from the Supreme Court after the ridiculous decision there last week. It’s open season now, and while Democrats were busy spiking the football on redistricting, the game obviously isn’t over yet.
In short, this decision sets up the coming death blow for many of the unconstitutional provisions of the VRA that have long given Democrats an unfair way to stack the deck. If gerrymandering is legal, and it absolutely is, then it should be available to both sides equally. To the victor goes the spoils.
[snip] ...challenging the Alabama map on the grounds of the Voting Rights Act was a total miscalculation for Democrats... with a full decision likely to come in 2023. That decision is unlikely to be kind to those who want to keep weaponizing the VRA to produce Democrat-stacked maps while not allowing Republicans to gerrymander. What that means is that not only did Democrats lose in this specific instance, but they could lose a lot more, all across the country in regards to their use of racial quotas for congressional districts once a final decision is delivered... Activist groups suing Alabama over a 30-year-old district map could potentially destroy the racial gerrymandering grift for the entire country. That's exactly what appears to be happening, and while Justice John Roberts wussed out as usual in the decision to lift the order, his dissent notes that he believes the only holdup is that the court needs to tear apart past bad precedent before he flips. In other words, he’s likely to join a 6-3 majority next year in delivering a decisive blow to Democrat attempts to rig the gerrymandering process (i.e. where they can draw 22-4 D to R maps in New York but Republican states can’t return the favor). [/snip]
“Wouldn’t be surprised if Roberts retires in the next couple of years so Joe can replace him.”
They don’t need to replace him.
FJR
John Roberts gave us ObamaCare which led to the total Federal takeover of the US medical establishment which enabled the planned scamdemic which enabled the stolen election which got us to were we are now.
FJR !
But were those two worse then Obama and Joe “messes up anything he touches” biden?
I have a feeling we wouldn’t have been saddled with those two tards if either of the above were in.
He is what he is...
He will be like this for many decades to come...
First he says he does, then he doesn't...
Then he says he will, then he won't...
Me too. The boss of this joint warned us a long time ago.
Tennessee Adopts New Congressional Map That Nukes Long-Time Democrat’s Seat
Daily Caller ^ | 7 Feb 22 | ANDREW TRUNSKY
Posted on 2/7/2022, 9:16:43 PM by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee on Sunday signed a new congressional map into law that carves up a Nashville-based Democratic district three ways in order to expand his party’s advantage.
The new lines give Republicans a distinct advantage in eight of nine congressional districts, and they already forced Democratic Rep. Jim Cooper to retire after his Nashville seat moved from one that President Joe Biden won by 24 points to one that former President Donald Trump won by 11.
“Despite my strength at the polls, I could not stop the General Assembly from dismembering Nashville,” Cooper said in a statement a day after the legislature advanced the new maps.
The map’s adoption comes amid a fight for control of the House of Representatives before the 2022 midterm elections. Legislators in states across the country have drawn lines much more favorable to their party than in recent redistricting cycles, with maps in states like New York which could eliminate half of its Republicans in Congress and in states like Texas, whose map shores up every GOP member that was vulnerable in 2020.
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Let us not forget that Cruz put Roberts forward, then W appointed him.
We’ve always known what a traitor Roberts is. My question is “was Breyer part of the 5 or the 4?”
I voted for GWB in 2000. Didn’t make that mistake again in 2004.
Lets see, 2008 would be:
Bush got 301 of the needed 270 electoral votes
Kerry got 237
Everybody else ZERO.
So you didn’t back Bush - the. Who did you back?
Michael Peroutka, Constitution Party. When Bush signed the 1st-Amendment abridging Campaign Finance Reform act into law, I decided that was it. His subsequent ongoing love affair with illegal aliens proved me right, as far as I’m concerned.
The four are:
Breyer (Clinton 1994)
Roberts (G W Bush 2005)
Sotomayor (Obama 2009)
Kagan. (Obama 2010)
The five would be:
Thomas !!! (Bush 1991)
Alito (G W Bush 2006)
Gorsuch (Trump 2017)
Kavanaugh (Trump 2017)
Barrett (Trump 2020)
Pertoka?
“ 2004 presidential election
On November 7, 2003, Michael Peroutka announced that he would seek the Constitution Party’s presidential nomination and on the same day the party selected him to serve as the stand-in presidential candidate.[55] He won the presidential nominations of the American Independent and Alaskan Independence parties.[56] Peroutka was given the party’s presidential nomination and Chuck Baldwin was given the party’s vice-presidential nomination.”
How did he do?
Oh. NEVERMIND !
“143,630 (0.12%). 0 EV”
He sounded good on paper.
I don’t know if it’s great news.
Maybe just a feint.
Since Deep State can bus/fly in illegal voters, steal elections, why fight a battle on gerrymandering that’ll just get you more grief.
It’s easier to just steal the elections.
Don’t forget W’s pick of Harriet Miers and when ####head Cheney called into Rush Limbaugh snickering about how we should just “trust” them that Miers was a good pick.
Don’t ask any questions. Just trust the globalist traitors cheney and W.
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