I get that people on the left want to celebrate good things happening, but when the SCOTUS conservatives do something with voting rights and all of the liberals disagree, it's probably good to stop and take a moment before you decide what it means. https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-louisiana-redistricting-congress-vra-epc
Yes, this appears odd at first glance. Based largely on Jackson's dissent, this happened bc of (1) the majority's decision to invoke Purcell & (2) the dissent's concern about that and view of whether the district court should have been allowed to issue its remedial map in June.
NEWS: SCOTUS allows Louisiana congressional map with two majority-Black districts to be used in 2024 elections, citing the closeness in time to the election. Notably, the three liberal justices disagreed with the order. Jackson writes. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23a994_7mip.pdf
Today’s SCOTUS arguments only got complicated because the justices made them that way. And the decision to do so likely will get Trump even further delay of his DC trial.
NEW: Although Trump appeared likely to lose his argument for absolute immunity at SCOTUS, the court's handling of the case will likely give him something else he desperately wants: Delay.
"Chief Justice John Roberts displayed a alarming lack of humanity throughout the arguments on Monday, strongly fighting the idea that being homeless could ever be a status because a person can get a home at any point." https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-grants-pass-homelessness-arguments
Breaking: Booksellers' challenge to Texas's book-ban regime succeeds at the Fifth Circuit.
Today, the full Fifth Circuit announced that the far-right judges of the court LOST a vote for rehearing en banc 8-9 after a 3-judge panel had previously upheld the dist ct's injunction.
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The majority gives no reasoning; Barrett, joined by Kavanaugh, gives an embarrassingly absurd *this is just an administrative stay* concurrence; Sotomayor, joined by Jackson, is extremely unhappy in their dissent (below); and Kagan respectfully dissents as well.
BREAKING: SCOTUS allows Texas’s SB 4 to go into effect, allowing state criminal enforcement of a state immigration law. More to come at Law Dork. https://www.lawdork.com/