The Supreme Court on Monday evening overturned a New York state court ruling that found that the Staten Island-based district of Republican US House Rep. Nicole Malliotakis discriminated against Black and Latino voters and needed to be redrawn. The Supreme Court’s intervention preserves a GOP-led seat that would have been likely to shift to Democrats this November.
The court’s ruling sets a disturbing precedent for voting rights in several ways. Federal courts are supposed to defer to state courts on matters of state law. And the Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that courts should not change election laws in the middle of an election season, and in this instance the filing deadline for candidates in New York has already passed.
In her dissenting opinion, which was joined by Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan, Justice Sonia Sotomayor blasted the court’s conservative majority for using one set of rules to uphold redistricting maps that benefit white voters and Republicans in states like Texas while using a completely different set of rules to strike down maps that benefit racial minorities and Democrats in places like New York.
“Time and again, this Court has said that federal courts should not interfere with state-court litigation,” Sotomayor wrote. “Time and again, this Court has said that federal courts should not meddle with state election laws ahead of an election. Today, the Court says: except for this one, except for this one, and except for this one.”
They would not be fighting against voting if it were not a threat.
it’s at least been refreshing that i haven’t seen the “vOtE 3rD pArTy” dickwads skulking around spewing their shit lately, but maybe that’s because i was more thorough in my instance blocking rampage with this account
The fact that voting 3rd party is a waste of a vote is the most pathetic thing about our so called democracy
As a Canadian I would argue that having a third party might bring some semblance of order to America’s very limited 2-party choice.
Yeah, but the definition of “having” would be the key there. If the party ‘exists’ as just a consistent 10-15% of the vote, it 1) might as well not exist, and 2) will inevitably lead to the consistent win for whichever of the other two parties is more ideologically opposite.
The problem is though if everyone stopped being a coward and voted for who they agree with instead of who they think would win a third party would easily become a 3rd of the vote.
The entire american population could 100% agree with a singular politician but not vote for them because “I dOn’T think tHeY CAn wIN.”
Ranked choice voting solves that problem, but that’s a blue state thing
They accomplished their goal, collected their Russian paychecks, and are waiting for instructions before dragging themselves back out of their holes.