The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that found Texas’ 2026 congressional redistricting plan pushed by President Donald Trump likely discriminates on the basis of race.
The order signed by Justice Samuel Alito will remain in place at least for the next few days while the court considers whether to allow the new map favorable to Republicans to be used in the midterm elections.
The court’s conservative majority has blocked similar lower court rulings because they have come too close to elections.
The federalist society faux-jusrices have a clear practice of ignoring precedent and law, deciding what outcome they want, and then engaging in creative writing to pretend their conclusions are justified by facts.
Do not let anyone pretend that anything the plausible future democratic Congress does to remake the court is too far or too reactionary. We have a 6-3 majority that is all “Bush v Gore” all the time, and if we’re going to have ivory tower academics discarding precedent for their chosen ends those academics should at.least be endorsed by the people every few years.