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On the Supreme Court, Justice Roberts and Justice Kavanaugh teamed up with Democrat justices to violate the Constitution and insist that Alabama must create a Democrat majority black district.
When the Supreme Court considered the challenge to an Alabama congressional map that shortchanged the state’s Black voters, liberal justices expected the conservative majority to side with Alabama – if not gut the 1965 Voting Rights Act altogether.
What happened next defied predictions from inside and outside the court. A series of negotiations, most notably between Chief Justice John Roberts and fellow conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh, transformed what many thought would be a ruling undercutting the Voting Rights Act into a forceful affirmation of the law.
Roberts and Kavanaugh enjoy a decades-old kinship and often confer privately on matters
Which is why he should not have been nominated. A friendship with Roberts is utterly disqualifying.
The dispute centers on maps drawn by the Republican-controlled Alabama legislature that include just one majority-Black congressional district (among a total of seven), despite a 27% black population in the state. A three-judge US district court found – first in a January 2022 decision – that the legislature unlawfully diluted black voting power by packing much of the African American population into one district and dividing the rest among other districts. The judges directed Alabama to draw “two districts in which black voters either comprise a voting-age majority or something quite close to it.”
Gerrymandering is a slimy practice, but majority racial districts are completely unconstitutional. There’s a good argument for preventing one party from extreme gerrymandering, but the move by Kavanaugh to back the VRA is an absolute disaster and is the work of a man who, unlike Alito and Thomas (but unfortunately like Gorsuch and ACB) is not a solidly grounded conservative, but a liberal Republican with some conservative positions.
It’s not just Alabama either. Let’s look at Louisiana.
A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to cancel a lower court’s hearing for selecting a new redistricting plan that U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick had scheduled to start on Oct. 3.
“The district court did not follow the law of the Supreme Court or this court. Its action in rushing redistricting via a court-ordered map is a clear abuse of discretion for which there is no alternative means of appeal,” U.S. Circuit Judge Edith Jones, a Reagan appointee, wrote in the majority opinion, which was joined by Circuit Judge James Ho, a Trump appointee.
The ruling issued Thursday, which could be reviewed by the full 5th Circuit court or the U.S. Supreme Court, delays the process for creating a new congressional map to replace one that Dick found likely violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by diluting the voting power of black Louisianans.
The map approved by the state’s Republican-controlled legislature includes only one district out of six where black Louisianans — who make up close to a third of the state’s population — have a realistic opportunity of electing their preferred candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives. Dick, however, has ruled that to get in line with the Voting Rights Act, there should be two opportunity districts for black voters.
Given how racially polarized voting is in Louisiana, those districts would likely elect Democratic candidates, who could help Democrats take back control of the U.S. House after next year’s elections…
In court filings, their attorneys have signaled they’re preparing a novel argument to defend the state legislature-approved map. They cite the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on affirmative action to argue that race-based redistricting under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act may no longer be constitutional.
Good luck with that argument considering Kavanaugh’s betrayal of the United States Constitution.
The distortion field of the VRA (along with much of civil rights legislation) allows Democrats to argue that when Republicans gerrymander, it’s a civil rights violation, because Democrat voters are black, while Democrat gerrymandering that eliminates Republican districts, is fine because Republicans are white.
This is the same civil rights effect that Democrats have weaponized to create two sets of rules for the two parties.
Well, the joke’s on us. Again.
Progressives incognito passing as conservatives until the traps are sprung and the Republic is sent is into the leach field with the other organic waste, to be followed by the Republicans as well.
Good riddance to the sucker class. Thanks for the centuries of hard work and capital accumulation.
We’ll take it from here. Your job is done. And so are you.
I would have thought black only colleges were against the US constitution but there they are…
CNN. Kavanaugh and Roberts are proposing something so far left and racist they might as well join BLM, and it refers to them as conservative.
And while I have no doubt those two guys are butt buddies, how would CNN know they “confer privately on matters” unless it taps their phones and bugs their computers? It just made that shit up, which is something it does regularly.
Whoever down voted me is doubtlessly a CNN troll (“journalist.”)
Another down vote? A CNN troll in denial eating turd nuggets like chicken nuggets. Do you need ketchup with that tasty treat?
Kavanaugh has only teetered on the fringes of conservatism to begin with. With his nomination proceedings bearing this out (and it should’ve ended there), he’s since proven on several cases to be about as conservative as Mitt Romney or Mitch McConnell. No one should honestly be surprised by this.
Big surprise he’s buds with RINO Roberts.
Trump’s nominee. He’s so proud.
Let’s see you choose honest and competent people out of a sewer. People who conceal what they really are.
Good one Jeff. Careerists who make a career out of concealing what they really are. In business Trump could fire people who didn’t perform, and the people who worked for him wanted to keep their jobs for the salary if nothing else. In politics we see backstabbers who hide their disobedience to the Commander-in-Chief under a cloak of following the Constitution. How is it following the Constitution to disobey Trump’s orders? Plus they probably get paid more once they are out of office by Soros and his minions, and other leftist Zillionaires.
Districts ought to be based somehow on local communities with common interests, but in California they are hopelessly Gerrymandered,
Yes, look at those long coastal districts with the most populated and blue cities (except for San Jose which has more than a million people.) which cuts off the much MUCH larger inland areas. In a legitimate system, the districts would run West East and be regional. For example, the people in Wine Country where you live have NOTHING in common with people in places like LA or even Frisco.
The coastal strips are gerrymandered from Hell. Or is it one long strip from San Diego to Frisco? I don’t remember and I’m too lazy to check.
Did you see Trump speak at the CA GOP connvention today? OMG, He was funnier than a lot of stand up comedians, especially when he was insulting various politicians. I’ve watched most of his rallies and this was much better. I laughed my ass off.
Exactly. I managed (in part) to get some absurd gerrymandering taken back about 15 or 20 years ago, which had some conservative cities split apart and half the city linked with Berkeley/Oakland, but now I think the situation is hopeless.
I just found the city council in my former city gave a $10 million state grant to a sitting city council member, when even the leftist state AG said she wasn’t eligible for numerous rule violations. But the progressive council don’t care.
I want to live in a district that’s all bikini models and porn stars.
Whoever down voted me hates pussy. Gaylord.
All states have these phony AF racially gerrymandered districts
President Trump – please NEVER AGAIN say how proud you are of putting Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett on the court. They are traitors. Roberts is pure evil.
Kavanuagh can go cry to yesterday’s Europe. Do you understand that you are outmoded yet? Do you understand that you can you can go and have your party in Austria until Austria is outmoded? Probably not.
Big brother fag sees it all. He sees your Kavanaugh fag game from miles fags. Denied.
F’ing Kavanaugh, fags.
Fags in every way but mostly they gayest way.
Is there any other way to be a fag?
Whoever down voted me spends his every spare hour at gay bath houses blowing random strangers and smiling when the flavor changes.
No fight whatsoever that’s why Germany kicked your gay fag ass.
No fight, om;y questions on the preponderance of fight.
That’s why Germany kicked your ass to Saudi Arabia.
Don’t you know how to fight? Or does it take more than you can give?
Do you think this is some sort of stupid game?
Kavanaugh, pathetic fags. You gave no heart you have no soul.
kava
We’re supposed to be impressed by Kavanought?”!!!!!!!!
Any analysis for how many BLACK politicians are elected in predominantly WHITE districts vs WHITE politicians elected in predominantly BLACK districts??? My guess is it would appear racist with MORE blacks elected in white areas!
Roert Kavanaugh??? Is this seriously where you want to go?????
If you want to there game on.
Republicans want in person voting. Democrats want in person looting.
As if for one second we have To evaluate you Kavanugh fags, You fags are worse than anything that ever originated in Nazi Germany.
Much worse because you think you’re nominally better
OMG, they return to Kavanaugh. That’s how pathetic they are.
Pathetic. they have no balls they no nothing
They don;t even know know how to fight. If the Romans came tomorrow it would still be we’re morally superior to you.
Pathetic, but you still think victory is yours by default.
And we’re supposed to get enraged by Catholic Kavanaugh.. Kavanaugh is yours, He will always be yours.
Just like the stupid Jewish idiots that didn’t know what was waiting for them in Austria and Germany. Because they’re stupid,
My neighbor was an historian who escaped Germany in the late 1930s. His grad students wrote some books about Jews who didn’t escape Germany in time. Fascinating material. In one case the lady author managed to fool her way through the whole war, inside Germany, and survived.
Because they think everybody loves them on account of their talents. No, everybody doesn’t love you at all.
Damn Una, rake it easy on the gin.
Yeah, even I can’t understand most of her posts these days.
Remember how Liberals reacted to him? the same way they did with Clarence Thomas they just don’t want Conservative/Constitutional Judge on the Bench
Trump’s nominee like Wray, Barr, etc.
Kavanaugh, you can stick Kavanaugh up your ass.
Kavanaugh, “Your comment is too short—try writing a little more£
And that;s why you no idea. That’s why you have no clue.
Kavanaugh, Jewish retards.
And that’s why you have no idea. That’s why you ended up slippers for the German Wehrmacht..
Kavanaugh, are you kidding me????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope so.
You think this is some stupid game? It might be stupid but very serious in consequences.
Hence Kavanaugh
Well., this is the head that you brought it to? Isn’t it fags? Do you think you’re going to win?
You’tr going to lose Republican fags.
Omgz fags are winning? Let;s go fag!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fags. Your comment is too short—try writing a little more. Go back
Another Trump win.
#Winning!!!!!!
This stuff is pretty bad. Excuse me. Excuse Trump that just needs to make up stuff. I don’t need to make up stuff.
Una, what happened to you personally?
Even reading myself I don’t like it but then I remember Trumpf.
I don’t want to hear any bitching about Kavanaugh Trumpfiots.
I don’t want to hear it.
Reading myself is pretty bad. I’m sorry I inflicted this on you.
That’s what booze does to you folks. The sad thing is Trumpf knows that already.
Trump has never taken a drink in his life.”
Ease off, babe. Take it in moderation. Too much booze can harm you in more ways that one.
When I say folks I guess I should be saying fags given the parlance of our times.
Even me. I’m looking at this stuff I wrote thinking nobody needs to read this and then I remember Trunpfiot.
Trump’s “conservative” Supreme Court, is it?
OMG this Covid stuff looks bad. Inject me with your genetically modified serum Fauci. Your bedside manner sucks but it’s so much better than the other crazies on your team.
Excellent and horrifying video on the development of the British H-bomb.
Wearing a black dress to work is no proof that you are smart, have integrity, or care a whit about the Constitution.
Well, Roberts is to the Supreme Court as Biden is to the Presidency. However, Roberts has far less excuse than Biden. His age is no excuse for his blundering as Biden’s is. Don’t even want to talk about Kavanaugh. He is another feeble mistake like Suiter & Kennedy were.
FIRST OF ALL, this is called SPOTTING such as in Bowling or other GAMES. It is when your opponent is WEAKER and you then, give them points to even the playing field and it is not really EVENING OUT OF MAKING ANYTHING FAIR BECAUSE THERE ARE ALWAYS CONSEQUENCES. THIS SHOULD NEVER BE DONE IN VOTING DISTRICTS AND HERE IS WHY.
First, it creates a DEPENDENT class of people and victims. They will use this EXCUSE to stop trying to improve, be better, or lift themselves out of their created demise. SO, if it is a GHETTO, they get more rights/excuses than a better or higher-standard community, who DID work hard to become better financially and in any other way. IT IS NOT FAIR TO EITHER GROUP because the GHETTO will take from the better COMMUNITY and the COMMUNITY WILL BE TAXED MORE TO TAKE CARE OF THE GHETTO.
In DISTRICTS, it would allow Democrats to REWARD THOSE IN THE GHETTO WITH FALSE PROMISES OF HOPE when the actual HOPE should come from themselves in working hard, and moving OUT OF THAT GHETTO.
This ELECTION DISTRICTING PLOY IS such LUNACY just like the loons who run this Government and the 2 loons who are for this type of deficient mentality.
Trump did a lot of good for his country. At the same time he made two gargantuan mistakes. One he tried to make peace with globalist RINO establishment. Who pushed Kavanaugh and Barrett on him. Second he bended the knee to Covid terrorist Faux Chi and company.
How come we don’t see how these districts are layed out any more? The convoluted gerrymandered districts are pretty obvious, as are the ones that aren’t. I remember the dems and msm pitching a fit over GOP ‘gerrymandering in the early 2000s, but the before and after maps showed the opposite. The GOP just cleaned up several convoluted district maps created by the democrat party. I guess that’s why we don’t see the proposed districts on the news anymore.
And it’s funny that it wasn’t news when the democrat party created these convoluted, gerrymandered, rigged outcome districts, just when the GOP started cleaning them up, with more reasonable, blocky, and competitive ones.
We knew Roberts was compromised, and Kavanaugh just confirmed he is too. You know, it’s also funny that Republicans will confirm almost (there’s Garland, at least) anybody a dem nominates for SCOTUS, but suddenly get cold feet if they’re ‘too’ conservative.
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