>>1462585

In a sharply worded dissent, Justice Elena Kagan objected to the decision by the supreme court’s majority, arguing that it disrespected the work of the lower court, whose ruling actually was authored by a judge appointed by Trump.

“We are a higher court than the district court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision,” Kagan wrote in a dissent joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

“This court’s stay guarantees that Texas’s new map, with all its enhanced partisan advantage, will govern next year’s elections for the House of Representatives. And this court’s stay ensures that many Texas citizens, for no good reason, will be placed in electoral districts because of their race. And that result, as this court has pronounced year in and year out, is a violation of the constitution,” she continued.

The ruling comes amid a nationwide battle over the redrawing of electoral maps. Texas is a key piece in Trump’s effort to transform the US House map to secure Republicans’ fragile House majority for the second half of his presidential term. Democrats need to flip only a handful of congressional seats to win the House gavel, and the opposition party has historically gained ground during the midterm elections, particularly if the president’s approval ratings are low, as Trump’s are.

Typically, redistricting happens after a new decade’s census results. Yet the decision by Texas Republicans to move ahead with a brazen mid-cycle redistricting earlier this summer set off a chain reaction among other states.

Republicans in Texas, North Carolina, and Missouri have passed new maps that could add as many as seven GOP-friendly seats. Democrats, meanwhile, have countered that effort with new maps in California – where Republicans and the Trump justice department are suing to overturn the map – and in Virginia, which could offset those gains.

>>1462586

In Utah, a judge handed Democrats an unexpected victory by choosing a House map for 2026 that gives the party one pickup opportunity.

Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, welcomed the supreme court ruling in favor of the state’s Republican party.

In a statement carried by the Associated Press, Paxton said the order “defended Texas’s fundamental right to draw a map that ensures we are represented by Republicans”.

“Texas is paving the way as we take our country back, district by district, state by state,” he added.

Trump’s attorney general Pam Bondi also celebrated the decision, saying that the federal district court had “no right to interfere with a state’s decision to redraw legislative maps for partisan reasons”.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) lamented the decision. “It’s incredibly disappointing that the Court has rubber stamped a map enacted by Texas Republicans which, simply put, is an extreme, racially gerrymandered map,” said Suzan DelBene, chair of the DCC.

Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic leader, said the court had “once again shredded its credibility by rubber-stamping a racially gerrymandered map in Texas”.

In a statement, Jeffries added: “Tonight’s ruling by far-right justices on the supreme court is further proof that the extremists will do anything to rig the midterm elections. The gerrymandered Texas congressional map is a partisan and racially discriminatory power grab designed to subvert the will of the voters – particularly in Black and Latino communities.”

Good will always triumph over evil (pedophile corrupt Democrats)

>>1462585
As expected.
What the fuck is even the point of the law when the highest court in the land is just a glorified yes-man for whatever Trump wants?

>>1462589
No Dem candidate gets in without promising to deal with the corruption in the court. The people won't tolerate another Biden who refuses to do anything about this blatant bias.

>>1462591
pritzker/newsome ticket would be automatic win

>>1462592
>pritzker
The fat guy that openly brags about being corrupt and the guy that calls his wife "partner"?

Prop. 50 in California: by the will of the people will triumph over evil
(pedophile corrupt Republicans)

>>1462591
>the people
lol
They won't stack the courts because then republicans will stack the courts. You have no recourse.

>>1462593
aside of the corrupt part, yes.

>>1462589
>.....they should be yes men (xersons) for the demonrats!!!
>>1462591
>it's bias when the demonrats dont get everything they want!!
>we should stack the court with 100 trannie judges!

>>1462621
>.....they should be yes men (xersons) for the demonrats!!!

Trump installed 3/9 of them. One of them's dying wish was to wait for the process rather than Trump replacing.

>>1462621
Get rid of the judges who are either openly taking bribes or supporting the ones that do. Not the dems fault that's most of the conservative court thanks to Thomas.

>>1462628
>Get rid of judges
Lifetime appointments.

>>1462630
Get rid of that rule.

>>1462587
>In a statement carried by the Associated Press, Paxton said the order “defended Texas’s fundamental right to draw a map that ensures we are represented by Republicans”.
That's probably the grossest statement of this whole thing. It's openly saying that they should be represented by a specific party instead of whoever the people actually want to pick.

>>1462731
Without the redistricting, dems would be able to incorporate illegals into the census. That's why they're fuming.

>>1462585
Libxisters...we lost

>>1462769
If by lost you mean the Supreme Court has been seized by radical conservative judges using the shadow docket that almost all legal scholars agree is reallocating power to Trump for their own financial benefit and desire of 6 conservatives to force their Christian national beliefs on all American citizens and absolve racial jerrymandering while applying shadow docket rulings more in the last 11 months then in the past 20 years combined…. Then yes, we lost.

>>1462621
no, they should be nonpartisan defenders of the constitution. They should not be on a leash from thinktanks and sponsors.

no one party is the "correct" party, as no one party can speak for all people.

Also your god isn't real.

>>1462589
Oh shut up. You had no problem with California, Illinois, and every other libshit state doing the same thing.
>b-but it's different when WE do it!

>>1462782
Yes, you did lose. Kwab

>>1462782
Kikes get pissed off when you tell them they can't teach your kids about dildos, HRT and racism.