SCOTUS Conservatives Show Little Issue With Texas' Delay Tactics In Voting Rights Case

[DonViejo]

By Tierney Sneed | April 24, 2018 1:22 pm

No matter what the Supreme Court does with the Texas redistricting case it heard Tuesday, Texas Republicans have already won, in a way, in how they have been able to drag out the litigation over their 2011 state legislative and U.S. congressional map.

The conservative faction of the Supreme Court — whose questioning was dominated by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito — signaled that it had no problem with the most recent round of delay tactics Texas employed to get the case back in front of the high court for a second time.

The case is called Abbott v. Perez, and it stems from multiple challenges to the legislative maps Texas drew after the 2010 Census. One question the Supreme Court examined was whether this was even the proper juncture for it to intervene. A three-judge district court in San Antonio has issued multiple rulings finding the maps discriminatory against Latino and African American voters, but had not yet completed the remedy stage when Texas successfully sought a stay in the case from Justice Samuel Alito.

The liberals on the court stressed that intervening now would open the doors for any case to seek Supreme Court review without a final ruling or a formal preliminary injunction.

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Say hello to your future, a future of justice ONLY for white, christian, males on the rightwing.

[gratuitous]

2. This was why Republicans filed the Shelby County case

Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act required certain states with a history of discriminating against citizens and their right to vote to submit proposed new regulations to the Department of Justice for pre-clearance. If the DOJ said a new regulation was discriminatory, that was the end of it, and voting continued as it had in the past. As a consequence, states didn't even submit discriminatory new voting regulations to DOJ, because they knew nothing would come of it.

Then Chief Justice Roberts decided that racism was over and dead in these here United States, and he struck down Section 5. Lo and behold, a whole bunch of states suddenly decided that too many people were voting, and many of them weren't voting the right way. Practically any state where Republicans held sway suddenly needed to screen citizens a lot more carefully to make sure that no unauthorized ballots were cast. Republicans won election after election under unconstitutional restrictions, which would be duly struck down by the Supreme Court, but only afterwards.

So, what's one more election in Texas to be conducted under unconstitutional restrictions? Oh yeah, the folks elected this time around will be drawing the congressional districts in 2020. One more go-round for the Party of Lincoln to disenfranchise Americans for choosing to be the wrong race or nationality.

[Blue_true]

3. Did Kennedy aggressively ask questions that indicated that he supported Texas?

When he is silent or asks a few germane questions, usually he sided with the liberal block on the vote.

[pansypoo53219]

4. cheating for the party is a feature. see gore v GW.