Allen v. Milligan

[DKG]

Justices Roberts and Kavanaugh may have made the Dems a permanent governing party.

In June, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kavanaugh joined the three Democrat appointees to vitiate Alabama's congressional map. In applying the Voting Rights Act to essentially create proportional black districts, they have made it a federal right for Democrats to maximize the black vote to squeeze out as many Democrat districts as possible. This was not just limited to the circumstances of the original Alabama map, as Kavanaugh seemed to indicate in his concurrence, but will essentially void every map in the South, creating one or two more Democrat seats in most Southern states.

Shortly after the Milligan decision, the Supreme Court remanded a Louisiana case back to the Fifth Circuit, effectively paving the way for another mandated Democrat district in Louisiana. Now, a three-judge panel in Alabama has tossed out a second map drawn by the state, essentially asserting that the black vote is not utilized enough to create more guaranteed Democrat seats. That panel included another GOP judge, District Judge Anna M. Manasco, who was appointed by Trump. The court stripped the state legislature of its constitutional right to draw maps and has unilaterally appointed a special master to draw the districts instead.

So there you have it! What Kavanaugh promised would be a modest ruling has essentially stripped states of the right to draw maps, four years after Kavanaugh and Roberts themselves wrote (in Rucho v. Common Cause), "Partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts."

[Lokmar]

Justices Roberts and Kavanaugh may have made the Dems a permanent governing party.

In June, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kavanaugh joined the three Democrat appointees to vitiate Alabama's congressional map. In applying the Voting Rights Act to essentially create proportional black districts, they have made it a federal right for Democrats to maximize the black vote to squeeze out as many Democrat districts as possible. This was not just limited to the circumstances of the original Alabama map, as Kavanaugh seemed to indicate in his concurrence, but will essentially void every map in the South, creating one or two more Democrat seats in most Southern states.

Shortly after the Milligan decision, the Supreme Court remanded a Louisiana case back to the Fifth Circuit, effectively paving the way for another mandated Democrat district in Louisiana. Now, a three-judge panel in Alabama has tossed out a second map drawn by the state, essentially asserting that the black vote is not utilized enough to create more guaranteed Democrat seats. That panel included another GOP judge, District Judge Anna M. Manasco, who was appointed by Trump. The court stripped the state legislature of its constitutional right to draw maps and has unilaterally appointed a special master to draw the districts instead.

So there you have it! What Kavanaugh promised would be a modest ruling has essentially stripped states of the right to draw maps, four years after Kavanaugh and Roberts themselves wrote (in Rucho v. Common Cause), "Partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts."

All of this stuff is infuriating. One the dem side, you have a group who openly try to rig everything to give total control to leftists and on the right, you have a majority that wants to go along for optics.

I swear, the only people who should be appointed to the SCOTUS are those who pass an "originalist" litmus test!