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<blockquote data-quote="essentialsaltes" data-source="post: 77682353" data-attributes="member: 294566"><p>Topsy Turvy World</p><p></p><h3><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/15/politics/supreme-court-louisiana-black-voters-congressional-district/index.html" target="_blank">Supreme Court allows second majority-Black district in Louisiana over liberal dissents</a></h3><p>The Supreme Court paused a chaotic legal fight over <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/07/politics/louisiana-map-june-deadline/index.html" target="_blank">Louisiana’s congressional districts</a> in a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24663346-scotus-ruling-on-louisiana-district" target="_blank">brief order</a> Wednesday that will likely allow the state to use a map in this year’s election that creates a second majority-Black district and benefits Democrats.</p><p></p><p>The court’s three liberal justices publicly dissented from the decision.</p><p></p><p>But the decision may represent something of a pyrrhic victory for voting rights groups who fear the court’s justification for allowing the new map could have far-reaching consequences in future redistricting battles.</p><p></p><h2>Purcell principle politics</h2><p>Louisiana officials specifically asked the Supreme Court last week to rely on a legal doctrine <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/21/politics/purcell-election-supreme-court/index.html" target="_blank">known as the Purcell principle</a>, which it sometimes invokes to stay out of last-minute election lawsuits. The majority cited Purcell in its brief order Wednesday but did not otherwise explain its reasoning.</p><p></p><p>In a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24663346-scotus-ruling-on-louisiana-district" target="_blank">brief dissent,</a> Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said it was premature for the Supreme Court to intervene in the case. She said that Purcell “has no role to play here.”</p><p></p><p>“Rather than wading in now, I would have let the District Court’s remedial process run its course before considering whether our emergency intervention was warranted,” Jackson wrote. Jackson, in other words, would have waited for the lower courts or the state Legislature to draw a new map.</p><p></p><p>So we get this as a <s>reasonable</s> <s>legal</s> map for use in 2024:</p><p><s><s>[ATTACH=full]347892[/ATTACH]</s></s></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="essentialsaltes, post: 77682353, member: 294566"] Topsy Turvy World [HEADING=2][URL='https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/15/politics/supreme-court-louisiana-black-voters-congressional-district/index.html']Supreme Court allows second majority-Black district in Louisiana over liberal dissents[/URL][/HEADING] The Supreme Court paused a chaotic legal fight over [URL='https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/07/politics/louisiana-map-june-deadline/index.html']Louisiana’s congressional districts[/URL] in a [URL='https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24663346-scotus-ruling-on-louisiana-district']brief order[/URL] Wednesday that will likely allow the state to use a map in this year’s election that creates a second majority-Black district and benefits Democrats. The court’s three liberal justices publicly dissented from the decision. But the decision may represent something of a pyrrhic victory for voting rights groups who fear the court’s justification for allowing the new map could have far-reaching consequences in future redistricting battles. [HEADING=1]Purcell principle politics[/HEADING] Louisiana officials specifically asked the Supreme Court last week to rely on a legal doctrine [URL='https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/21/politics/purcell-election-supreme-court/index.html']known as the Purcell principle[/URL], which it sometimes invokes to stay out of last-minute election lawsuits. The majority cited Purcell in its brief order Wednesday but did not otherwise explain its reasoning. In a [URL='https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24663346-scotus-ruling-on-louisiana-district']brief dissent,[/URL] Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said it was premature for the Supreme Court to intervene in the case. She said that Purcell “has no role to play here.” “Rather than wading in now, I would have let the District Court’s remedial process run its course before considering whether our emergency intervention was warranted,” Jackson wrote. Jackson, in other words, would have waited for the lower courts or the state Legislature to draw a new map. So we get this as a [s]reasonable[/s] [s]legal[/s] map for use in 2024: [S][S][ATTACH type="full" alt="1715817618539.png"]347892[/ATTACH][/S][/S] [/QUOTE]
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