I doubt that. If it were true Roberts would file a concurring opinion rather than dissent.
Posted on 02/09/2022 5:19:31 AM PST by cotton1706
Chief Justice John Roberts was once in the vanguard as the U.S. Supreme Court rolled back the Voting Rights Act. But as his more conservative colleagues showed Monday in restoring a Republican-drawn Alabama congressional map, Roberts is no longer in control.
1965 law required Alabama to have a second heavily Black district.
It’s the latest order from a court whose bold reshaping of the law is leaving its chief justice on an island, often backing his fellow Republican appointees on their general direction but trying unsuccessfully to slow them down. Roberts was similarly in dissent last year when the same five-justice majority let Texas’ six-week abortion ban take effect.
“The chief justice’s opinions signal that while he doesn’t necessarily disagree with the direction in which his conservative colleagues are going, he does not agree with how they’re getting there,” said David Strauss, a constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago law school.
“They are moving too quickly, without paying enough attention to the proper role of the Supreme Court, and, in the Alabama voting rights case, without the respect due to very conscientious lower court judges.”
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What we all know (and they don't say) is that carving out a "black" district is just guaranteeing a Democrat seat in the Congress.
But what several of the districts elect black Republicans?? Wouldn't that be compliant with the vaunted Voting Rights Act??
Of course not, because black Republicans aren't really black.
Only a district that elects black Democrats is in compliance with the Voting Rights Act!
Well, too bad!
Damn that Trump!
This article is dripping with leftist tears.
I doubt that. If it were true Roberts would file a concurring opinion rather than dissent.
5 conservatives 3 liberals and 1 Rino Chief Justice :)
lol
fun fun
“1965 law required Alabama to have a second heavily Black district....”
Annnnnnd... there you have it.
-—This article is dripping with leftist tears.——
or panicky Black fears
Race, race, race.
The left has an absolute obsession with dividing the populace along racial lines.
South Africa, here we come.
“Dey gonna put us back in chainzzzz!”
Hey Greg, explain “voting rights” to me.
Any legal citizen of the United States can vote Greg.
Voting rights is the elimination of voter fraud, the opposite of what this bill does.
Greg, you get paid to lie. Parents proud?
yeah, pretty much. At no point in time should the race of the population come into these redistricting plans. People are people is the way it should work. By bringing in race, you are being racist. As long as race is a factor, then racism will be possible and maybe even prevalent depending on what the advantage is to those race-based methods and decisions.
This dreck ‘article’ makes little sense
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha. What lies and BS from MSN. As I said when ACB was confirmed, the days of the constitution meaning whatever the hell Roberts feels like it means that day are over. ACB and Kavanaugh are far from ideal and they’ve disappointed several times already but they are at least starting to roll back some of the ridiculous rulings of the Warren Court which were really legislative power grabs for the first time. Its long overdue.
Roberts will probably retire in a fit of pique in order to give xiden another SCOTUS pick. “That’ll show ‘em!”
Exactly. Like if illegals voted Republican, you’d have Schumer and Pelosi brandishing M-16s on the border.
South Africa, here we come.
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Want to read an accurate history of post-apartheid SA? Pick up a copy of Ilana Mercer’s book entitled ‘Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa’.
Roberts, Souter, what’s the difference?
Roberts is 1 of 9 and his opinion carries no more weight than the other 8. He relishes being the turd in the punchbowl.
Roberts’s
WTH is THIS!?
The Supreme Court Drops the Hammer on Democrat Redistricting Sets up a Coming Death Blow; Chief Justice Roberts Joins the Liberal Side in Dissent
Red State ^ | 02/07/2022 | Bonchie
Posted on 2/7/2022, 11:37:37 PM 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.
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.
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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