{"id":178989,"date":"2018-06-25T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/25\/supreme-court-rules-5-4-ns-shouldnt-vote\/"},"modified":"2018-06-25T19:03:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T00:03:00","slug":"supreme-court-rules-5-4-ns-shouldnt-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/25\/supreme-court-rules-5-4-ns-shouldnt-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Rules 5-4: N*****s Shouldn’t Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Supreme Court just ruled that Texas’ racist Gerrymander is hunky dory<\/a>:<\/div>\n

This morning the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Texas in a dispute alleging that the state\u2019s lawmakers had drawn redistricting maps to discriminate against some of the state\u2019s black and Hispanic residents. By a vote of 5-4, the justices threw out almost all of a ruling by a three-judge federal district court that would have invalidated the maps, agreeing with the lower court only that one state legislative district was a racial gerrymander. Today\u2019s ruling means that elections this year will likely go forward using the existing maps.<\/span>

<\/span> The decision came in the two cases known as Abbott v. Perez<\/a><\/i>, which date back to 2011, when Texas\u2019 Republican-controlled legislature began to redistrict after the 2010 census. The legislature\u2019s federal congressional and state legislative maps never took effect, because a three-judge district court (which normally hears redistricting cases) barred the state from using the maps and created its own plans instead. But the U.S. Supreme Court threw out the court-created maps in 2012, telling the lower court to use the state legislature\u2019s maps as a \u201cstarting point\u201d for new maps. The district court did so, and in 2013 the state legislature adopted the maps for permanent use.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Then they kicked the North Carolina redistricting case to the curb<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court passed up an opportunity on Monday to take another look at whether the Constitution bars extreme partisan gerrymandering, returning a case from North Carolina to a trial court there for a further examination of whether the challengers had suffered the sort of direct injury that would give them standing to sue.<\/p>\n

The move followed two decisions last week<\/a> that sidestepped the main issues in partisan gerrymandering cases from Wisconsin and Maryland.<\/p>\n

The new case was an appeal from a decision<\/a> in January by a three-judge panel of a Federal District Court in North Carolina. The ruling found that Republican legislators there had violated the Constitution by drawing the districts to hurt the electoral chances of Democratic candidates.<\/p>\n

The decision was the first from a federal court<\/a> to strike down a congressional map as a partisan gerrymander.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 I’m with Sonya Sotomayor on this one:<\/p>\n

It means that, after years of litigation and undeniable proof of intentional discrimination, minority voters in Texas\u2014despite constituting a majority of the population within the State\u2014will continue to be underrepresented in the political process. Those voters must return to the polls in 2018 and 2020 with the knowledge that their ability to exercise meaningfully their right to vote has been burdened by the manipulation of district lines specifically designed to target their communities and minimize their political will.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let me translate Sotomayor into something more pithy:  The 5 justices who voted to ignore the racism in Texas are a bunch of corrupt ratf%$3s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Supreme Court just ruled that Texas’ racist Gerrymander is hunky dory: This morning the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Texas in a dispute alleging that the state\u2019s lawmakers had drawn redistricting maps to discriminate against some of the state\u2019s black and Hispanic residents. By a vote of 5-4, the justices threw out almost …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[413,368,375,364,407,639],"class_list":["post-178989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-civil-rights","tag-corruption","tag-elections","tag-evil","tag-justice","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}