Racist and brazenly illegal gerrymandered house maps.
The US is a corrupt, backward third world shit hole.
It’s a very confusing time for those who escape dictatorships… and then ended up here with these shenganigans…
In a brief order, the conservative majority argued, among other things, that the District Court had intervened to block the maps too close to next year’s midterm election.
Eleven months away is too close to the next election for these clowns.
The decision has nothing to do with their stated reasons; they are in favor of racism, but don’t want to say so
Dont forget 9 months is too close to an election to approve a supreme court justice nomination, unless the president is Republican and then less than a month is plenty of time
Election was already underway. There were already absentee balls cast ousting him from office when they approved his nomination
Fuck that shit. They use this argument whenever it suits them. And what suits this fascist admin, suits the SCOTUS.
Didn’t Trump himself appoint SCOTUS judges “too close” to the election? Clowns.
Barrett, for starters. Nominated 38 days prior to the 2020 election, and confirmed just 8 days prior.
But wouldn’t the opposite be true? Changing the maps too close to the election is a problem. “Keeping them the same too close to the election” makes no sense.
Texas passed their new maps on August 29th. On November 18 the district court ordered them to revert to their previous maps.
Apparently the SC’s Republican cult members think this will be too difficult for Texas?
They’ve already gutted the VRA. This is reaffirming the decision.
No no, dont even give it that much dignity. The complainants are not asking to “block the map” too close (11 months) to elections. They are asking that the map not be illicit, unethically changed 5 years early, based off the explicit public request of the President who is not meant to have power over state election matters, with the explicitly stated intent of gerrymandering out more seats for Republicans that they “deserve” than they otherwise would have won, only 15ish months to the elections (which is apparently plenty of time). Their “reasoning” doesn’t make sense because it’s not reasoning. It’s blatant full chested support of voter suppression/disenfranchisement to bolster their party and their autocratic President. They’re so full of shit you could smell them talking from the next room over. Fuck those lying, cheating, corrupt, un-American, fascist cunts.
Given the midterms are every two years, 12 months is the furthest you can get from an election on either side
The mask is off.
Fellow being, this particular mask has been off ever since Donny the Destroyer appointed his cronies to be SCOTUS judges - “too close” to the election, btw.
The Supreme Kangaroo Court of the United States strikes again. It’s kind of amazing that out of 9 justices we have 2 avowed rapists, not to mention several christian nationalists.
I 100% blame the Democratic party for this. They’ve been assisting the Republicans in their efforts to create this court for the last 40 years. Thomas should never have been confirmed to the court and Ruth Bader Ginsberg hung on at a time when she should have left while the “liberal” dems controlled both the presidency and the Senate and could easily have replaced her with a(n at least mostly) liberal justice.
It’s also frustrating that they let a seat be stolen.
McConnell invents a rule out of whole cloth and blocks an appointment.
The Dems could have played hard ball, they could have gone with the line that the senate was fulfilling its role of advising and consenting by not holding a vote. They want it to be read as a rejection, make them hold a vote, say that no vote means they are fine with it.
Republicans exceed their powers every time they have them to reshape this country to their vision. Democrats refuse to use the full scope of their power to accomplish anything.
Repeat ad nauseam.
I would still place some blame on Republicans for insisting on nominating sexual offenders, corrupt pieces of shit, etc. Yes the Dems should have done more to stop them, but i think the GOP should bear some responsibility for being sociopaths
Blaming Republicans is like blaming a wolf for eating a chicken. It’s in their nature, it’s what they do. So no, I’m going to blame the farmer for allowing the wolf into the chicken coop in the first place.
This is such a dumb take.
Don’t blame the murderer, it’s just in their nature. Hmmm…. Pretty shit take TBH. Dems are chickenshit fail lovers, but let’s be real. The reason the SC is loaded with these scumbags is due to Republicans, Bitch McTurtle, and the Fed Soc.
Yeah, and 70% of the country feels the same. Yet these asshats are the ones in charge. Why is that? The Democrats haven’t truly fought to take or even keep a seat from Republicans yet they will move heaven and earth to keep a progressive out of any chance of running.
With the benefit of hindsight we know RBJ should have stepped down sooner, but realistically the last opportunity was in 2014. Blaming her (and the democrats) entirely, but not blaming the republicians who blocked Obama’s nomination is like blaming an abuse survivor for what happened to them, and not the abuser.
She died in 2020 of old age. How much foresight do you fucking need. She should have stepped down and a lot of people were telling her that.
Of course they did. Now let’s see their rationale for overturning Californias.
It’s too close to the election to not do it
Does it even fucking matter at this point? There will be zero repercussions for the blatant disregard for the law to serve the authoritarian regime so they can say whatever they want
If that happens, nations around the globe should really wake up to the threat coming from the USA.
…oh, who am I kidding…
Yeah, for real. Let’s hope the Majestic Imperious High Court deigns to grace us with any explanation. They love their emergency docket…
Here’s the fun part. They’ll use the shadow docket and won’t give any rationale.
If it’s too close to the election they need to approve a bill through legislature that changes need to happen before a specific number of days before an election, otherwise they are just legislating from the bench pretending it’s legal. Which is obviously the case here because they can’t argue justifications for their racist bullshit in an open forum. “The government can break the law whenever it wants, what are you going to do about it” seems to be the SC opinion here.
Redistricting unrelated to a change in the number of seats should be banned.
But if we are going to allow them, they should not be allowed to take effect until the following election cycle. This would give the court time to review the maps as well as allow the voters to have input prior to the change.
At what point can I stop pretending we have a functioning government?
At least 11 years ago.
Damn, guess I shouldn’t have been paying my taxes.
Guess that’s just the violence inherent in the system.
Unfortunately, not paying taxes isn’t really an option. If there’s one thing the government enjoys doing and does well is collect taxes, regardless of how failed that government is. The broken government is more likely to be extra shitty on the penalty though, unless you’re rich of course, in which case you don’t have to pay taxes.
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I’m constantly questioning my sanity because everyone pretends the Untied States is still a functional, stable country. I know Canadians still choosing to live part time in the Untied States. Are they that unaware? Do they just not care? Even if they don’t care about other people, they should be questioning their own safety as non-citizens in Trump’s America
It functions pretty well at enriching a select few corporations and wealthy elites.
Since the founding of the country.
We should start calling it Robertsmander rather than Gerrymander from now on. If having no shame while he’s living has no effect, then the best he deserves is his name being tarnished and synonymous with corruption for hundreds of years.
They are Robertsmadering
It’s heavily Robertsmandered
They want to Robertsmander everything
Saying this in my head makes my head and my jaw hurt for some reason. I think I’ll just stick with gerrymander.
Exactly as expected. Next they’ll find that California’s redistricting is unconstitutional.
I obviously disagree with this ruling, but if they were to rule the opposite on California, the absolute sheer corruptness would be undeniable. And worthily of drastic and dramatic action on our (the citizens) part.
The corruption is already undeniable.
Okay but then it’ll be double plus undeniable. People will definitely do something in response. You’ll see.
Their sheer corruptness is already undeniable. The six right wing hacks regularly make decisions that are blatantly and obviously unconstitutional and write nonsense opinions to justify them. They openly accept huge bribes from those impacted by their decisions and then rule in their favor. If the GOP gave a damn about the rule of law and the Constitution they would have been impeached long ago.
Good. Now what the fuck is going to be done about it?
Citizens wouldn’t even vote in their own interest, and now it’s too late. I’m convinced tens of millions of Americans will die quietly before even one stands up.
I agree.
I’m here for the dramatic action.
Feels like we need to have a Get the Fuck Out protest.
That’s very cute of you, however, fascism is there to stay.
This is why America can’t have nice things
Those three guys probably have more in common with each other than with 99% of the population.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until… yadda yadda!
Fascinating stuff! It’s like russia with extra steps and a gigantic amount of comical ostentatious posturing about freedoms and liberty.
Americans do love their theatrics!
Political maneuver literally named after a US politician
“Wow, this is just like Foreignistan!”
Is it supper time yet?
Every day MAGA trash feels safe leaving their homes is a day the rest of you show your cowardice, America
Its a hard thing to come to terms with. Families are split in two. To take up arms means we are doing it against our own family members. In my case it would be my father and brother.
Your father and brother are Nazis.
If they aren’t afraid of you, you’re a coward or you’re complicit. There isn’t any grey area with fascism.
Ah yes fear and division.
The natural enemy of fascism.
Yes please do nothing instead and explain your strategy from a Salvadoran gulag in the future.
Yep those are the only options.
Prove yourself an enemy or sit idle.
A profound lack of nuance.
Sowing community and peeling undecideds, Sabotaging, undermining, informing, rearing confusion and exploiting divisions that exist within the power structure, encouraging idleness in the enemy even.
The enemies of fascism and ways to resist it are myriad. And yet you can only imagine a sword to meet a sword.
And frankly; there’s no faster road to that gulag. Or more likely an abrupt meaningless death that accomplishes nothing.
Rage and cast aspersions from your safe nest, blame anyone who hasn’t given up on everyone that’s on the other side. Reduce the work of ages to a simple numbers game. Throw away every weapon that seems too complex or involved, deny all clemency and revoke the rights of others to offer it.
Surely that’s what we need. Another great war will kill the demon.
You wrote a big reply and there are people somewhere who will read it. Somewhere for sure, good day.
I accept your surrender.
