#callaisdecision — Public Fediverse posts

> The Supreme Court wanted to hide behind this lower court panel and let them make way for a discriminatory map to take effect. But on Tuesday, one Southern court said they would have no part of this nakedly partisan project, writing, “We cannot see our way clear to requiring Alabamians to cast their votes in the 2026 elections under a districting plan tainted by intentional race-based discrimination.”

-- Pema Levy, MOTHER JONES, May 26, 2026

https://link.motherjones.com/view/6a0b3aa1b8e353d8f50a1f3brbj4r.54oo/8bf73566

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> Reforms that would break the supermajority right-wing Court’s grip on the country — its operating as a legislative veto for Democratic administrations and a hall pass for Republican ones — would go far beyond docket management and ethics reforms, though. Term limits, court packing, jurisdiction stripping — the ideas lighting up the intellectual left and spreading to Democratic officials would overhaul the Court as we know it. 

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/democrats-supreme-court-reform

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