Leah Litman - just an utter joke of a court. 🧵
just an utter joke of a court.
— Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social) 2025-12-04T23:22:03.436Z
Texas wasn’t going to gerrymander/draw new maps when Trump called for more partisan gerrymanders. They just started it when DOJ told them to erase majority minority districts! AKA to target and use race.
— Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social) 2025-12-04T23:29:09.950Z
Texas & DOJ said that’s what was going on!
— Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social) 2025-12-04T23:31:09.881Z
So apparently the way to stop discriminating on the basis of race is to … allow some discrimination on the basis of race when it’s to secure Republicans electoral advantage.
Just lawless partisan hackery. No fact finding deference. No legal basis.
And wtf does Purcell even mean here? The election is almost a year away! And this is a new map TX drew mid redistricting cycle! They already had selected a map! That was already partisan gerrymandered!
— Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social) 2025-12-04T23:32:18.269Z
TLDR: SCOTUS rules, 6-3, that racial gerrymandering is totally okay when Republicans do it. And if a district court suggests otherwise, they were dumb and too mean to Republicans (specifically “not presuming their good faithâ€).
— Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social) 2025-12-04T23:34:18.991Z
Also!!!! The two things SCOTUS said the district court failed to consider were … addressed by the district court. More persuasively than SCOTUS
— Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social) 2025-12-04T23:42:05.807Z
these clowns are REALLY going to say that Texas’s map - which targeted majority minority districts - was NOT discrimination on the basis of race.
— Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social) 2025-12-04T23:45:07.936Z
But they’ll say Louisiana’s map - drawn to comply with the Voting Rights Act and give Black voters representation- DID discriminate on the basis of race
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Fuck you Fox News for foisting this nightmare on us! Fuck you to fucking hell! 