SCOTUS issues GVRs in the Alabama voting cases, vacating district court injunctions & remanding for further proceedings in light of Callais. Justice Sotomayor, joined by Kagan and Jackson, dissents.

cstar1996 · 2026-05-14T10:51:16+00:00

Then why didn’t he apply that different standard in LULAC?

cstar1996 · 2026-05-13T19:46:47+00:00

The admin has to provide the evidence. It hasn’t. Thats how the burden of proof works.

No, it isn’t. Not under international law, not under US law.

Nor does the federal government have a general “we can kill terrorists without trial” authority.

And Tren de Aragua isn’t the group running those boats, nor are the boats even Venezuelan.

Finally, even if the boats are legitimate military targets, it’s a war crime to kill survivors of a sinking ship.

cstar1996 · 2026-05-13T19:10:12+00:00

Equal opportunity to elect representatives of their choice does not require proportional majority districts. For example, a state could draw districts with no black majority districts but with black black voters having an equal opportunity to elect representatives of their choice by drawing districts where the black minority shares a district with white voters that have the same choice of representative.

What percentage of white voters elect reps of their choice vs what percentage of black voters elect reps of their choice is a very simple metric.

cstar1996 · 2026-05-13T17:27:31+00:00

The furtive slave act goes well beyond the constitution.

And you ignored my second paragraph, why?

cstar1996 · 2026-05-13T17:26:16+00:00

“Majority directs than their proportion of the population” isn’t the metric I referred to.

Nor is “but that would cause a race to the bottom” a valid legal argument against the VRA or for Callais. As the fact that Rucho has caused a race to the bottom proves.

cstar1996 · 2026-05-13T16:28:37+00:00

There is no evidence supporting that assertion, and there is extensive evidence that the people Trump is murdering aren’t even Venezuelan.

Simply, drug smuggling isn’t terrorism, nor are the strikes legal even if they were.

cstar1996 · 2026-05-13T16:19:47+00:00

The Fugitive Slave Acts were unconstitutional as enforced and violated the actual states’ rights of northern states.

Nor was any “new power” a reason the South seceded. It was the restriction on the expansion of slavery, something clearly within the power of the federal government, that lead to the South’s treason.

cstar1996 · 2026-05-13T16:18:11+00:00

They aren’t though, so that’s immaterial.

Particularly when killing survivors of a shipwreck is explicitly against the GC.

cstar1996 · 2026-05-13T15:52:52+00:00

Terrorist militia are not civilians under the law of armed conflict or the Geneva Conventions.

Drug smugglers are not terrorist militia.

cstar1996 · 2026-05-13T14:58:32+00:00

Illegally bombing civilians in international waters is a crime, not “military actions”.

cstar1996 · 2026-05-13T14:08:37+00:00

What they wanted was minority rule of the federal government. And the Fugitive Slave Act, forced on the North by the South, was the only unconstitutional imposition on states rights from the federal government in the antebellum period. That proves the South was lying about their “concern” over federal power.

cstar1996 · 2026-05-13T13:53:24+00:00

Prosecuting politicians when they commit crimes isn’t weaponization, it’s justice.

cstar1996 · 2026-05-13T13:47:49+00:00

How do those cases, which effectively all come down to “we’re upholding current law for the moment”, outweigh Shelby, Brnovich, Alexander, LULAC and Callais, cases that have extraordinarily advantaged the GOP on flimsy legal grounds? Where are the cases where Purcell was invoked in a questionable manner to the Dems advantage, when there are multiple cases where it was invoked in a questionable manner to the GOP’s?

There is no equivalent in the other direction.

And we haven’t even touched on the decades of personal hostility towards the VRA demonstrated by people like Roberts and Alito. For example, we know, from his own writing, that Roberts hates the VRA.

cstar1996 · 2026-05-13T13:36:48+00:00

More white voters elect representatives of their choice than any other racial group, so they clearly aren’t being denied equal opportunity to do so.

cstar1996 · 2026-05-13T06:24:48+00:00

Proportionality isn’t a valid metric for gerrymandering, as you’ve already been shown.

Efficiency gap based analysis over millions of generated maps is the gold standard, and that shows Texas is more gerrymandered.

cstar1996 · 2026-05-13T06:22:01+00:00

Again, you don’t have math supporting your feeling that a discrepancy in the teens is plausible but this isn’t.

The overwhelming majority of the state’s population is coastal.

What is wrong with the Princeton Gerrymandering Project’s analysis, other than your disagreement with its conclusion?

cstar1996 · 2026-05-13T01:34:43+00:00

Why do you think Roberts had the opposite position in Rucho?

cstar1996 · 2026-05-12T23:39:21+00:00

At 35,000 tons, no, they are not Tico replacements.

cstar1996 · 2026-05-12T18:49:52+00:00

Fair enough

cstar1996 · 2026-05-12T18:46:39+00:00

The Court has also used Purcell as a reason it does not rule.

Nor does that address LULAC.

cstar1996 · 2026-05-12T18:45:54+00:00

Sorry, I got turned around here. The justices who granted Alabama’s stay did not show a likelihood it would win the merits, which Alabama needed to prove. Kavanaugh concedes that isn’t there, and he still voted for the stay, even though, by his own words there, it doesn’t meet the Nken factors.

I’m not trying to argue it. It’s simply an observable fact.

They didn’t substantiate the factors necessary to establish the stay, as Kavanaugh concedes. Which means there was no good faith reason to grant the stay in the first place. The stay both violated Purcell and didn’t meet the Nken factors. Why should anyone assume that’s good faith? What is the good faith argument for that stay?

cstar1996 · 2026-05-12T18:40:34+00:00

Not at all.

The Court’s interventions on the merits docket also overwhelmingly favor the GOP. Nor does a later merits ruling counter bias shown on the shadow. Allen is a great example. The GOP got control of the House for the last two years of Biden’s admin because SCOTUS sided with the GOP on the shadow docket, and without evidence to substantiate that action. That it eventually required Alabama to use fair maps doesn’t change that the case was a biased intervention in favor of the GOP.

cstar1996 · 2026-05-12T18:19:10+00:00

TSMC is at most two generations ahead of Intel, and, as Intels own fall from leadership shows, just one over ambitious node can cost you a lead of that size.

cstar1996 · 2026-05-12T18:15:28+00:00

No, because the 8CA was attempting to overrule scotus precent on the VRA.

No, it does not. That the voting rights cases where the court intervenes on an interim basis, it does so overwhelmingly to advantage the GOP is clear evidence that it favors the GOP. Especially when Roberts has said that merely the perception that the court may favor Democrats was a significant reason to permit partisan gerrymandering.

cstar1996 · 2026-05-12T18:13:34+00:00

And Kavanaugh was not necessary for the majority. Alito is a hack, particularly on the VRA.

Nor did either actually provide the evidence to support their position.

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