Supreme Court OKs Texas' Racial Gerrymander

 

In a hyper-partisan ruling even for the MAGAt-dominated Supreme Court, the court affirmed Texas' racially-designed Congressional redistricting favoring Republicans, ordered by the corrupt Malignant Fascist in an attempt to keep the House under his control for the 2026 election.  Justice Elena Kagan wrote the stinging dissent for the minority of three that the redistricting violated the Constitution. From Salon.com:

"The Supreme Court gave Texas the go-ahead to use Republican-favoring maps in the 2026 midterms on Thursday, staying a lower court’s ruling that the maps were likely the result of an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. In a blistering dissent many times longer than the court’s order, Justice Elena Kagan hammered the court’s conservatives for the casual way they tossed aside the lower court’s extensive work to determine that race was a key factor in the drawing of the maps.

'The District Court conducted a nine-day hearing, involving the testimony of nearly two dozen witnesses and the introduction of thousands of exhibits. It sifted through the resulting factual record, spanning some 3,000 pages. It assessed the credibility of each of the witnesses it had seen and heard in the courtroom. And after considering all the evidence, it held that the answer was clear,' she wrote. 'Texas largely divided its citizens along racial lines to create its new pro-Republican House map, in violation of the Constitution’s Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.' [snip]

'The court issued a 160-page opinion recounting in detail its factual findings. Yet this Court reverses that judgment based on its perusal, over a holiday weekend, of a cold paper record,' she wrote, in a dissent joined by the court’s liberals. '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.'” (our emphasis)

With this decision, the authoritarian-supportive MAGAt Court stands firmly with the felonious Malignant Fascist in his attempts to maintain power illegitimately in 2026, by rigging Texas' election landscape and allowing MAGA Republicans to choose who will vote for them, rather than the other way around.  It's classic authoritarianism, and it needs to be corrected by pushing for an expansion of the Court when Dems regain Congress and the White House.  In the meantime, if Dem states aren't well underway in redistricting in their states as California had the sense to do, time is nearly up. 

BONUS:  Chris Geidner at LawDork has a great write up on this and on the Republicans in Robes.

(photo: Sergio Flores / Reuters)