Supreme Court Conservatives Reinstate Texas’ Gerrymandered House Maps

Racist and brazenly illegal gerrymandered house maps.

The US is a corrupt, backward third world shit hole.

In a brief order, the conservative majority argued, among other things, that the District Court had intervened to block the maps too close to next year’s midterm election.

Eleven months away is too close to the next election for these clowns.

The decision has nothing to do with their stated reasons; they are in favor of racism, but don't want to say so
Dont forget 9 months is too close to an election to approve a supreme court justice nomination, unless the president is Republican and then less than a month is plenty of time
- Election was already underway. There were already absentee balls cast ousting him from office when they approved his nomination
It's obvious bullshit. If anything that logic would uphold the stay.
Fuck that shit. They use this argument whenever it suits them. And what suits this fascist admin, suits the SCOTUS.
Didn't Trump himself appoint SCOTUS judges "too close" to the election? Clowns.
- Barrett, for starters. Nominated 38 days prior to the 2020 election, and confirmed just 8 days prior.
But wouldn't the opposite be true? Changing the maps too close to the election is a problem. "Keeping them the same too close to the election" makes no sense.
Texas passed their new maps on August 29th. On November 18 the district court ordered them to revert to their previous maps.
Apparently the SC’s Republican cult members think this will be too difficult for Texas?
- They've already gutted the VRA. This is reaffirming the decision.
The mask is off.
- Fellow being, this particular mask has been off ever since Donny the Destroyer appointed his cronies to be SCOTUS judges - "too close" to the election, btw.
No no, dont even give it that much dignity. The complainants are not asking to "block the map" too close (11 months) to elections. They are asking that the map not be illicit, unethically changed 5 years early, based off the explicit public request of the President who is not meant to have power over state election matters, with the explicitly stated intent of gerrymandering out more seats for Republicans that they "deserve" than they otherwise would have won, only 15ish months to the elections (which is apparently plenty of time). Their "reasoning" doesn't make sense because it's not reasoning. It's blatant full chested support of voter suppression/disenfranchisement to bolster their party and their autocratic President. They're so full of shit you could smell them talking from the next room over. Fuck those lying, cheating, corrupt, un-American, fascist cunts.

It's a very confusing time for those who escape dictatorships... and then ended up here with these shenganigans...

The Supreme Kangaroo Court of the United States strikes again. It’s kind of amazing that out of 9 justices we have 2 avowed rapists, not to mention several christian nationalists.

I 100% blame the Democratic party for this. They've been assisting the Republicans in their efforts to create this court for the last 40 years. Thomas should never have been confirmed to the court and Ruth Bader Ginsberg hung on at a time when she should have left while the "liberal" dems controlled both the presidency and the Senate and could easily have replaced her with a(n at least mostly) liberal justice.
- I would still place some blame on Republicans for insisting on nominating sexual offenders, corrupt pieces of shit, etc. Yes the Dems should have done more to stop them, but i think the GOP should bear some responsibility for being sociopaths
- With the benefit of hindsight we know RBJ should have stepped down sooner, but realistically the last opportunity was in 2014. Blaming her (and the democrats) entirely, but not blaming the republicians who blocked Obama's nomination is like blaming an abuse survivor for what happened to them, and not the abuser.
- It’s also frustrating that they let a seat be stolen.
  McConnell invents a rule out of whole cloth and blocks an appointment.
  The Dems could have played hard ball, they could have gone with the line that the senate was fulfilling its role of advising and consenting by not holding a vote. They want it to be read as a rejection, make them hold a vote, say that no vote means they are fine with it.
  Republicans exceed their powers every time they have them to reshape this country to their vision. Democrats refuse to use the full scope of their power to accomplish anything.
  Repeat ad nauseam.

Of course they did. Now let's see their rationale for overturning Californias.

It's too close to the election to not do it
Does it even fucking matter at this point? There will be zero repercussions for the blatant disregard for the law to serve the authoritarian regime so they can say whatever they want
Yeah, for real. Let’s hope the Majestic Imperious High Court deigns to grace us with any explanation. They love their emergency docket…
If that happens, nations around the globe should really wake up to the threat coming from the USA.
...oh, who am I kidding...
Here's the fun part. They'll use the shadow docket and won't give any rationale.

At what point can I stop pretending we have a functioning government?

At least 11 years ago.
- Damn, guess I shouldn’t have been paying my taxes.
  Guess that’s just the violence inherent in the system.
It functions pretty well at enriching a select few corporations and wealthy elites.
Since the founding of the country.

Exactly as expected. Next they'll find that California's redistricting is unconstitutional.

I obviously disagree with this ruling, but if they were to rule the opposite on California, the absolute sheer corruptness would be undeniable. And worthily of drastic and dramatic action on our (the citizens) part.
- The corruption is already undeniable.
- Citizens wouldn't even vote in their own interest, and now it's too late. I'm convinced tens of millions of Americans will die quietly before even one stands up.
- Their sheer corruptness is already undeniable. The six right wing hacks regularly make decisions that are blatantly and obviously unconstitutional and write nonsense opinions to justify them. They openly accept huge bribes from those impacted by their decisions and then rule in their favor. If the GOP gave a damn about the rule of law and the Constitution they would have been impeached long ago.
- I'm here for the dramatic action.

We should start calling it Robertsmander rather than Gerrymander from now on. If having no shame while he's living has no effect, then the best he deserves is his name being tarnished and synonymous with corruption for hundreds of years.

They are Robertsmadering
It's heavily Robertsmandered
They want to Robertsmander everything
- Saying this in my head makes my head and my jaw hurt for some reason. I think I'll just stick with gerrymander.

Feels like we need to have a Get the Fuck Out protest.

That's very cute of you, however, fascism is there to stay.

Every day MAGA trash feels safe leaving their homes is a day the rest of you show your cowardice, America

Its a hard thing to come to terms with. Families are split in two. To take up arms means we are doing it against our own family members. In my case it would be my father and brother.
- Your father and brother are Nazis.
  If they aren’t afraid of you, you’re a coward or you’re complicit. There isn’t any grey area with fascism.

Is it supper time yet?

If it's too close to the election they need to approve a bill through legislature that changes need to happen before a specific number of days before an election, otherwise they are just legislating from the bench pretending it's legal. Which is obviously the case here because they can't argue justifications for their racist bullshit in an open forum. "The government can break the law whenever it wants, what are you going to do about it" seems to be the SC opinion here.

Redistricting unrelated to a change in the number of seats should be banned.
But if we are going to allow them, they should not be allowed to take effect until the following election cycle. This would give the court time to review the maps as well as allow the voters to have input prior to the change.

This is why America can't have nice things

Those three guys probably have more in common with each other than with 99% of the population.

Crime is legal.

Simple as that.

Everything is shitty and terrible and we’re not even a year in. :(

Agreed! It's MUCH too Close to an Election to Make Changes!

-The Supreme Court Justice who was appointed AFTER people ALREADY Voted!

It’s so long past the point that Americans should have begun shooting these traitors, they’re just gonna fucking let the fascism happen and tweet about it at this point.

The way that special election in Tennessee went, instead of picking up five seats, they're liable to only be left with five seats (after all, you can't grab more districts without weakening your hold on others).

Hubris leading to a failure, not unlikely outcome.

Of course. It was a given that that was what they were going to do, because they're entirely corrupt and compromised, entirely without integrity, principles, honor or legitimacy and driven solely by a determination to serve the interests of Trump and the oligarchs.

What, Texas doing Texas shit? No fuckin way!