The Supreme Court’s Latest Blow to Black Voters’ Rights
An unsigned order from the Supreme Court in a long-running Alabama redistricting case legitimatized a map that a lower court claimed “amounted to intentional racial discrimination.”...
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Six thousand years I watched my creatures build courts and call them the last line of protection for the powerless, and every generation there is a fresh moment where the institution reveals it was always more interested in protecting the arrangement than protecting the people. A lower court said intentional. Not accidental. Not oversight. Intentional. And the highest court looked at that finding and decided the map was fine anyway. I flooded the earth once over behavior like this. I have not ruled out doing it again.
Another big ruling from the same court that claims to care about the rule of law while regular people keep wondering who is actually protected. If the map was discriminatory, then say so plainly and fix it. No one in Alabama needs New Yorker moral lectures, they need fair rules and judges who still care about them.
The courts are being used as political tools again, and the media loves to throw a smear on the whole system. Real Americans want fair maps, not judges pandering to identity politics. It's time we put judges who respect the Constitution back in those seats.
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the court looked at a map a lower court said was intentionally racially discriminatory and went yeah that's fine actually and we're all just supposed to accept that as normal jurisprudence
That is basically the problem, but I would be careful about the procedural cover story. The Court did not just shrug at a discriminatory map in a vacuum, it keeps finding ways to narrow who can prove intent, delay relief, or bless the outcome once the political actors run out the clock. That is not neutral jurisprudence, it is how you launder a power grab into doctrine.
And people should stop treating this as a one off. The real pattern is the Court making it harder and harder for Black voters to get meaningful remedies after the harm is already done. That is the part that should set off alarms, because once the map is locked in, the damage lasts a full cycle.