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Peter Henry's avatar

In Callais, the Supreme Court said that absent clear evidence of racially motivated discrimination, new maps would be allowed, regardless of partisan gerrymandering.

On returning to lower courts, the lower court said there is clear evidence of racially motivated discrimination, and they voided the new maps.

The Supreme Court did not respond to the lower court's finding of fact that racial discrimination was real and determinative. They just said that they should rule in concordance with Callais.

They disregarded their own prior instructions regarding racial discrimination being forbidden.

Ruth Sheets's avatar

Peter, the Roberts 6 no longer care about their rulings being honest or just. They have a task given to them by the super rich and they are on track to follow it to the bitter end. Trump and the white house toddler pool are nominating and the Senate is approving judges who are not qualified, but they fit the plan of putting lackies in every position possible so the American people will have no say in what is happening to us and our neighbors. We do need to find ways to stop them or we will be in more trouble than we are now. Every day, it is a deep cut to our nation.

Daniel Solomon's avatar

https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/supct/rule_44

To be granted, a petition for rehearing must be grounded in substantial, focused reasons:Intervening Circumstances:

The petition can cite significant new developments, such as a major change in the law, a new statute, or a newly issued judicial decision that occurred after the case was submitted.

Substantial Substantial Grounds: It can raise "other substantial grounds not previously presented," provided there is a valid reason why this information could not have been provided earlier.

Overlooked or Misapprehended Facts/Law: While generally discouraged, if the Court clearly misunderstood or entirely overlooked a completely dispositive fact in the record or a critical question of law.

john@johnmdowd.com's avatar

So right they have the power to disregard with impunity.

Charles Welsh's avatar

The playing field is so deeply tilted. Clearly Republicans (including those of the hyper-partisan Republicans of the Supreme Court) feel that their hold on power is so fragile that it cannot tolerate a free and fair election. It will take all of our effort, and with that, our Republic hangs in the balance.

Swbv's avatar
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Remember when Roberts fretted about his SCOTUS being perceived as partisan? HaHaHaHaHaHa

It'll go down in the history books in the same chapter as Roger Taney's court.

Cissna, Ken's avatar

Might deserve its own chapter.

David J. Sharp's avatar

The Roberts majority references Justice John Marshall Harlan’s “The Constitution is colorblind” with a straight face—this court is just plain color-uncoordinated, my “polite” way of saying racist.

Ruth Sheets's avatar

David, add misogynistic to racist and that's our Roberts 6, appointed and approved for that reason. It is as though they were screened for their racism, misogyny, and ability to be corrupted. The 3 "liberal" justices, the ones who actually care about our nation and our constitution get blurred out because our Johnny knows they are right. His 6 are corrupt and the ones who should never have been on the court.

Swbv's avatar

The Federalist Society achieved all they had been scheming for for over 25 years. Leonard Leo deserves all the praise he gets from the MAGA fringe in our country.

Ruth Sheets's avatar

Swbv, that is why I would love to see Leo held accountable for the anti-American, anti-constitutional actions he and his cronies have done to this nation. He helps to prove no one should have that much money and power. Everyone suffers when they do.

David J. Sharp's avatar

Agreed! This is American Catholic, pre-Vatican II thinking—fear of women, of homosexuality, people of color, non-Christians, “the other”.

Ruth Sheets's avatar

David, in short, those white boys in charge fear everyone. They already know they can't trust their fellow whiny white boys in the Trump toddler pool and the oligarchs wanting to wreck this nation, and doing it in our 250th anniversary year. Truly appalling!

David J. Sharp's avatar

But, tragically, predictable—they’ve been whining from the 19th Century on.

Ruth Sheets's avatar

David, don't you just LOVE the hypocrisy! I wonder if they went to school for that!

David J. Sharp's avatar

And the temerity of thinking they speak for the majority when they are actually propping up a tiny minority.

Mike N.'s avatar

The UNSupreme Court at it again. Impunity at its finest. Maybe life-long appointments should no longer apply….

Linda Eriksson's avatar

Maybe? RBG is one of my heroes - but imagine for a moment the difference had she left the court when her health was obviously failing.

Ruth Sheets's avatar

Linda, we don't know that because Republicans had the Senate and it is likely our little Mitch McConnell would have figured out some other way to stop another Obama appointment. The corruption of this Roberts Court set of conservatives goes deep and goes well-beyond the court. Their work began with Citizens United and its ridiculous lack of logic while digging back into a weird past to claim personhood for corporations and unlimited money pumped into elections. Roberts and his crew knew what they were doing and how to tear us down quickly. I don't know if Bush,Jr. was in on it or if he was just a pathetic pawn, but he did the nominating and an unsuspecting senate went along with it. There is a straight line from there to here. Our Johnny doesn't care what the lower courts rule if it doesn't go along with his path to power and destruction. I love how he whines that people don't respect the court. What a hypocrite; he doesn't even respect the court!!

PeMi+7's avatar

The disgraceful decisions of the Roberts Court will be the historic markers of racism and misogyny for all time.

Rex Page (Left Coast)'s avatar

What white Americans want, white Americans get. Been that way from the outset and will be that way at least until white Americans are a minority. Probably longer. White Americans suck, most of them.

Amy Parker's avatar

Changing the map after voting has started is like changing the rules for the World Series after the first game because you lost. Are we ever going to wake up from this dystopian nightmare??

David Piper's avatar

Nothing this court does anymore surprises me. That's sad! They not only reversed a decision they made three years ago it boggles my mind how they are willing to interfere in the upcoming midterms - also supposedly something they don't do. Alabama had already held their primary election. With the six "conservatives" on this court, interfering in elections is the new normal - they did it for Louisiana as well. I've been saying for a few years now - when "conservatives" say "woke" simply substitute "Black" and you'll get the gest of their racial animus. And the SCOTUS is right there with Trump, the Project 2025 OLIGARCHS, and - it appears - the Klan! Yikes! Joyce is absolutely correct; the only answer is a massive turnout in November for step one in turning this abomination around! It's going to take a generation for any hope that we can mitigate the damage we're witnessing virtually daily!

Ken Howden's avatar

Ah, so Callais is no longer good law? I had the distinct impression that proven racial gerrymanders remained unacceptable to SCOTUS. Evidently I was mistaken.

Marc Panaye's avatar

More and more I have the impression that Bari Weiss, aka "The Killer of 60 minutes", is writing the NYT headlines.

Jonathan D. Simon's avatar

Alito was somehow able to say with a straight face that Callais did not gut the VRA. It took this per curiam travesty to finish the job. But anyone reading Callais with even passing acquaintance to this MAGA court's mo would have known that Alito's whole bit about VRA Section 2 still being operative in cases of *intentional* racial discrimination ("We're proud to declare we're drawing these here districts to disenfranchise BLACK folks!") was a load of crap. Milligan proves that conclusion, QED. See also, https://whowhatwhy.org/justice/courts/the-casuistry-of-callais-racism-power-politics-rolled-into-one-cynical-ruling/.

Bobbette Strauss's avatar

Not all of us. I’m a “white American”, of Irish Catholic and German Jewish heritage. And I’m happy to see America transform into a color-blind republic. If we can keep it.

Dawn Kiilani Hoffmann's avatar

This sort of thing makes me sick. The issues we as a culture have never fairly dealt with, keep on rolling over lives flattening them as if they do not matter. Black, brown, indigenous lives matter, folks! I am so fed up with racism and greed in this country! Have conversations with those you can, and look at your own biases, what do they allow, and then if there is even a teensy twinge of this stuff; DIS-allow it, please! This reversal starts one person at a time (each of us!).

phelpsmediation's avatar

I am so happy that a Florida Federal Judge has written that she is looking at Rule 11 sanctions for the possible fraud on the court by Trump filing suit against the IRS. Finally!!’

USNewsLink.com's avatar

It has been obvious to everyone that it was fraudulent. Blanche should be disbarred.

Debi's avatar

Reading these opinions makes my head hurt - there is no real, viable line of intelligent, considered thought process in them. It reads like primarily a line of BS with very subjective justification. So beneath what one expects from SCOTUS. At least the objections seem intelligent and considered, but that doesn't cure the enormous faults exposed in the opinion.

Joe Napoli's avatar

I have been thinking that the majority on the court must really hate minorities. That can be true but it’s also likely they feel a reckoning is coming where their power will be greatly diminished.

Bryan Sean McKown's avatar

In 1983 the presiding judge of the Northern District of San Francisco overturned Korematsu by

GRANTING a Writ of Error coram nobis with the Korenatsu family present in the Courtroom.

Me too.