The Supreme Court on Monday night cleared the way for New York to go forward with the 2026 elections using the state’s existing congressional map. Over the objections of the court’s three Democratic appointees, the justices granted a request from a Republican member of Congress, a group of voters, and state election officials to pause an order by a state trial court that would have required the state to redraw the map to add Black and Latino voters.
Justice Samuel Alito, who penned an opinion agreeing with the decision to put the order by Justice Jeffrey Pearlman of the New York Supreme Court, which is a trial court, on hold, called Pearlman’s order “unadorned racial discrimination.”
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who dissented from Monday’s ruling in an opinion joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, accused her colleagues in the majority of executing an “unexplained about-face” from its normal practice of staying out of cases involving state election litigation.
This probably isn’t the hill to die on, but liberal states need to become comfortable with the idea that the Supreme Court’s rulings are advisory when they step out of bounds like this. The belief that we need to preserve the Court’s legitimacy because one day they’ll swing back to protecting people’s rights is a pleasant fantasy. They’re political agents and will be inserting themselves arbitrarily to advance their political causes for the next 30 years.
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Are you talking about the headline? Yeah, it’s trash. I was too tired to fix it from all of the other articles with shit headlines.
Oh, sorry, no - just so tired of and pessimistic about anything the SCOTUS does, says, or is.
