SCOTUS Thread (News and Discussion) III: Abandoning 90 Years of Precedent

[archibaldcrane]

Informative interview about Clarence Thomas's unique afro-pessimist POV and how it led him to be the way that he is.

https://youtu.be/UmLDFj1TwzM

[6souls]

Informative interview about Clarence Thomas's unique afro-pessimist POV and how it led him to be the way that he is.

https://youtu.be/UmLDFj1TwzM

How different is it from the perspective that Frontline had shown?

[Gredival]

I don't think Thomas is anything resembling an Afro Pessimist. He doesn't believe that black people should give up on the state because of ontological antiblackness, he believes that overt recognition of race is counterproductive to solving inequities (if he even acknowledges they exist)

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[Mertron]

well then

the supreme court has told alabama their gerrymandering is too racist

https://twitter.com/mjs_dc/status/16...xIghEsrQibgLug

[Mertron]

for the record, this was the proposed map alabama wanted to go with, and fucking lol

https://twitter.com/taniel/status/16...xIghEsrQibgLug

[Yabby]

I find it funny that they could GM for any other reasons besides race.

[Gredival]

I find it funny that they could GM for any other reasons besides race.

Well known saying in employment law. You can fire someone for a bad reason, an illogical reason, or even no reason at all... just not an illegal one.

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[archibaldcrane]

well then

the supreme court has told alabama their gerrymandering is too racist

https://twitter.com/mjs_dc/status/16...xIghEsrQibgLug

https://twitter.com/_sn_n/status/166...hmjnZdQxw&s=19

[Athas]

One of the dates is wrong. Too many like to fix. Oh well.

[Mertron]

teehee

https://twitter.com/fordm/status/166...xIghEsrQibgLug

[Krandor]

I'm pretty sure Louisiana's was challenged in court just last year and held up.

[Andalusian girls]

District Court ruled it was racially gerrymandered, Appeals signaled Republican lawmakers had a weak case when they tried to go around, and the District Court judge was set to redraw the map after the Republican legislators refused when SCOTUS hit her with a stay while they evaluated Bama's.

regardless with Roberts (and Kavanaugh) taking this line of thinking, feels very unlikely Louisiana's gerrymander is gonna survive intact.

“A district is not equally open … when minority voters face — unlike their majority peers — bloc voting along racial lines, arising against the backdrop of substantial racial discrimination within the State, that renders a minority vote unequal to a vote by a nonminority voter,” Roberts wrote in the majority opinion.

right now Luisiana has gerrymandered it to 1 majority-minority district out of 6 with a 33% black and 42% minority population. now i know none of us are math majors but i reckon SCOTUS can figure 33%-42% of 6 is not 1.

[Krandor]

Even in a no bias of any kind situation it would still probably 2 to 4 in favor of the Rs. Outside of Baton Rouge and NOLA the entire state is blood red.

[TsingTao]

Might not flip a state, but definitely impacts House representation. Undoing this sort of fuckery picks up 1-2 seats compared to the jerrymandered, 5-1 map.

[Andalusian girls]

with demographics being 58%-42% white-minority 4-2 is justifiable, 3-3 is justifiable, 5-1 is not justifiable.

[Tyche]

3 opinions today, a little disappointed Gorsuch didn't write the native American adoption opinion. A little surprised it didn't get overturned.

2 weeks left, I think 20 more opinions. Potential for student loan opinion to drop tomorrow, but I'm doubtful.

[Kaslo]

3 opinions today, a little disappointed Gorsuch didn't write the native American adoption opinion. A little surprised it didn't get overturned.

2 weeks left, I think 20 more opinions. Potential for student loan opinion to drop tomorrow, but I'm doubtful.

He wrote one HELL of a concurrence. I think it went too far on the history and "fuck the whites" for most of the judges in the majority. But I'm going to be quoting it like crazy for one of my Indian cases.

Also, he wrote quite the dissent in the Bankruptcy opinion today, even if I agree with the Majority on that issue.

[Tyche]

Imagine if he were in the minority of the adoption decision and wrote the dissent. That would have been quite the takedown. If Alito had a soul, it probably would have burned from the fire Gorsuch would have spit.

[archibaldcrane]

ProPublica is about to put out a piece on Samuel Alito accepting private flights and lodging from a donor who has cases in front of the court, so Alito wrote a preemptive strike op-ed in the WSJ

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https://twitter.com/LeahLitman/statu...iFedyXrVg&s=19

[kuronosan]

NO WAY