• ryper@lemmy.ca
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    In a brief order, the conservative majority argued, among other things, that the District Court had intervened to block the maps too close to next year’s midterm election.

    Eleven months away is too close to the next election for these clowns.

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      Fuck that shit. They use this argument whenever it suits them. And what suits this fascist admin, suits the SCOTUS.

      Didn’t Trump himself appoint SCOTUS judges “too close” to the election? Clowns.

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        Barrett, for starters. Nominated 38 days prior to the 2020 election, and confirmed just 8 days prior.

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      The decision has nothing to do with their stated reasons; they are in favor of racism, but don’t want to say so

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      But wouldn’t the opposite be true? Changing the maps too close to the election is a problem. “Keeping them the same too close to the election” makes no sense.

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      Dont forget 9 months is too close to an election to approve a supreme court justice nomination, unless the president is Republican and then less than a month is plenty of time

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        Election was already underway. There were already absentee balls cast ousting him from office when they approved his nomination

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        Same bullshit that Mitch McConnell claimed why Obama couldn’t appoint a Supreme Court justice fuck this illegmeaite Supreme Court.

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          And then did a speed run to install a Supreme Court Justice like 45 days before an election under Trump.

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      No no, dont even give it that much dignity. The complainants are not asking to “block the map” too close (11 months) to elections. They are asking that the map not be illicit, unethically changed 5 years early, based off the explicit public request of the President who is not meant to have power over state election matters, with the explicitly stated intent of gerrymandering out more seats for Republicans that they “deserve” than they otherwise would have won, only 15ish months to the elections (which is apparently plenty of time). Their “reasoning” doesn’t make sense because it’s not reasoning. It’s blatant full chested support of voter suppression/disenfranchisement to bolster their party and their autocratic President. They’re so full of shit you could smell them talking from the next room over. Fuck those lying, cheating, corrupt, un-American, fascist cunts.

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      Texas passed their new maps on August 29th. On November 18 the district court ordered them to revert to their previous maps.

      Apparently the SC’s Republican cult members think this will be too difficult for Texas?

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        Fellow being, this particular mask has been off ever since Donny the Destroyer appointed his cronies to be SCOTUS judges - “too close” to the election, btw.