the Supreme Court specifically said “the only reason the VRA exists in its current form is that legislators are afraid they’ll be voted out if they change it, therefore the court has a duty to rewrite the legislation to protect their careers” and we somehow didn’t just disband it
same thing as happened in Sackett last term: Alito decided on a (scientifically wrong) definition of "wetlands" that *he* thought made sense and added it into the law because he thinks government has too much power to keep water from getting contaminated
(i will never not be mad about Sackett)
every time i think about this it makes me incredibly fucking angry. just the utter audacity to decide that “actually, politicians shouldn’t be responsive to voters if it means they are pressured into doing something i don’t like”
The GWB and Trump presidencies were 12 years of uninterrupted "how dare you not respect the voters' wishes" from mainstream media. But when Obama or Biden win, the same media swear up and down that the only important Americans are the ones who didn't support the current president.
I just heard a podcast about how the advent of amicus briefs just meant you could enter lies into the record as true and the fact our court systems haven’t developed some way to deal with this is wild
it truly is incredible how often court opinions contain objective misstatements of fact, about objective reality and/or the facts of the case, and that doesn’t provide involved parties grounds for appeal or recourse
Didn't Thomas say in the football-prayer case that the coach was praying in private with his team? When there were actual pictures of them praying in midfield during a game? (not during a play, although that would have been humorous.)
