"“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race,” Roberts wrote in a 2007 case that rejected school integration plans.
TBH, the VRA representation mandates are something of a defacto racial gerrymander. I prefer that there be no gerrymanders at all. But as long as legislatures get to choose district boundaries, there are going to be arbitrary criteria for choosing them. Better that they be ones that lean towards justice and democratic representation rather than cementing the power of the already powerful.
IOW, stop letting elected politicians choose their own voters.
So it's OK to engineer districts for all white candidates, but when it's done on behalf of a Black one, that's an "illegal racial gerrymander." Good to know.
I never thought I'd see "YOU'RE the REAL racist!" enshrined as a legal principle. But here we are.
Well they give "plausible" non-racial reasons for district maps that look like a silhouette of Olive Oil getting bit in the crotch by an anaconda so its ok.
Yeah, but Kagan, Jackson and Sotomayor see the potential for fuckery in this precedent. The next time this comes up, it's gonna be conservatives claiming that there just isn't time enough before the election to fix their fucked-up maps.
Has Mister Hurd got any pictures of all them brutal picnics of black folks around trees hanging with strange fruit of white folks who foolishly tried to vote? Or even to register?
Yeaaaah, not so much, I guess, of that "brutal" and "segregated" stuff, after all.
Like Fox "News," every once in a while the SC does something right. And yes, they both probably do that just so they can claim they're "fair and balanced."
Guess they thought they needed to throw us a bone. Many states are doing this. The SC ordered the R majority to right the maps and they didn't in time for several elections in NC when I lived there. Rs have to lie, cheat and steal elections to win. They've been doing this since Raygun with the hostage crisis which is why Carter lost his 2nd term.
Some R fucker in Texas said out loud several years ago (could be 20, I'm too old to track time any longer) that if they didn't limit voting of Certain People they would never win another election. It's a feature.
also in one of the Carolinas a few years back. Asif Manvi was interviewing some lardass election official for The Daily Show about moving polling places to make it harder for non-whites to vote, and he said basically the same thing. Manvi said, “You know that you’re saying that out loud to the camera, don’t you?” It was one of the times the Daily Show made national news.
Or we could, you know, use math to decide these things.
Maybe, like, the shortest total border length that properly encircles equal voting populations. It's kind of a travelling salesman problem, but evolutionary algorithms can, if not necessarily find the absolute best solution in a reasonable amount of time, get optimally close to it.
Wait, what am I saying? Math? Sorry, I forgot what country we're talking about here.
Here's a novel idea for the Louisiana GOP... if they want to win more districts maybe they could start addressing the needs of the voters in that destrict, no matter what their skin colour is.
Naaaah. They have more pressing matters here. Like telling people like me where we can pee and potentially be assaulted. Oh, and whether a teacher’s “moral objection” is more paramount than a parent’s wishes—but only in the one specific area of names and pronouns.
Great photo!
And Roberts is an ass.
"“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race,” Roberts wrote in a 2007 case that rejected school integration plans.
Ta, Dok.
Wasn't Louisiana the home of The slaughterhouse cases which led to a century of upside down decisions regarding the 14th amendment?
TBH, the VRA representation mandates are something of a defacto racial gerrymander. I prefer that there be no gerrymanders at all. But as long as legislatures get to choose district boundaries, there are going to be arbitrary criteria for choosing them. Better that they be ones that lean towards justice and democratic representation rather than cementing the power of the already powerful.
IOW, stop letting elected politicians choose their own voters.
Sometimes this deliberately unfair thing we allow for no good reason also has to be fair.
So it's OK to engineer districts for all white candidates, but when it's done on behalf of a Black one, that's an "illegal racial gerrymander." Good to know.
I never thought I'd see "YOU'RE the REAL racist!" enshrined as a legal principle. But here we are.
Well they give "plausible" non-racial reasons for district maps that look like a silhouette of Olive Oil getting bit in the crotch by an anaconda so its ok.
Really surprised but I'll take this win!
Yeah, but Kagan, Jackson and Sotomayor see the potential for fuckery in this precedent. The next time this comes up, it's gonna be conservatives claiming that there just isn't time enough before the election to fix their fucked-up maps.
IK,R?
Has Mister Hurd got any pictures of all them brutal picnics of black folks around trees hanging with strange fruit of white folks who foolishly tried to vote? Or even to register?
Yeaaaah, not so much, I guess, of that "brutal" and "segregated" stuff, after all.
Our robed wizard overlords also deigned that the funding mechanism of the CFPB is Kosher. SCOTUS got it's meds right!
They also made the right decision about the CFPB. Which must mean something really horrible is coming.
Like Fox "News," every once in a while the SC does something right. And yes, they both probably do that just so they can claim they're "fair and balanced."
Guess they thought they needed to throw us a bone. Many states are doing this. The SC ordered the R majority to right the maps and they didn't in time for several elections in NC when I lived there. Rs have to lie, cheat and steal elections to win. They've been doing this since Raygun with the hostage crisis which is why Carter lost his 2nd term.
Some R fucker in Texas said out loud several years ago (could be 20, I'm too old to track time any longer) that if they didn't limit voting of Certain People they would never win another election. It's a feature.
Trump said if elections were fair Republicans would never win again.
also in one of the Carolinas a few years back. Asif Manvi was interviewing some lardass election official for The Daily Show about moving polling places to make it harder for non-whites to vote, and he said basically the same thing. Manvi said, “You know that you’re saying that out loud to the camera, don’t you?” It was one of the times the Daily Show made national news.
Tay good gawd.
I'm 70 now, and to me any time that's in this century seems "recent."
Exactly. I cannot believe people born in 2000 can VOTE.
'ol BallsnStrikes is leading the most activist possee of judges since the Treaty of Tripoli!
Ol' Ballsnstrikes is just begging for a good hard strike in the balls
Or we could, you know, use math to decide these things.
Maybe, like, the shortest total border length that properly encircles equal voting populations. It's kind of a travelling salesman problem, but evolutionary algorithms can, if not necessarily find the absolute best solution in a reasonable amount of time, get optimally close to it.
Wait, what am I saying? Math? Sorry, I forgot what country we're talking about here.
But that would destroy GOP majorities in states like NC and Wisconsin, and we can't have that.
Equitable Distribution algorithms is a pretty basic machine learning task. Optimize for equality and proximity.
TWO pro-America rulings in ONE day by the Republican SCOTUS? What the...
What's the other one?
They somehow failed to gut the federal Consumer Protection Agency this morning.
They voted to preserve some regulatory authority of the consumer protection agency.
Oh, right. I did read that.
Now comes the *bad* shit.
Probably something like removing the regulatory authority from all federal agencies.
This should be settled in a more civilized manner. Like pistols at dawn. Poor Dawn.
Pistols at dawn, in front of a crowd! The crowd was feeling joy. But Joy had to leave.
No joy.
Even if they lose, they might get a hit musical written about them one day!
Shooting bottles of dishwashing liquid?
You're soaking in it.
Here's a novel idea for the Louisiana GOP... if they want to win more districts maybe they could start addressing the needs of the voters in that destrict, no matter what their skin colour is.
😱😱😱
Naaaah. They have more pressing matters here. Like telling people like me where we can pee and potentially be assaulted. Oh, and whether a teacher’s “moral objection” is more paramount than a parent’s wishes—but only in the one specific area of names and pronouns.
I hate this state so goddamn much.
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But they were elected to do the white thing.
LOL As if.
GTFOOH!!!!!
HERESY!
Commufascistwokenazisocialism!
Communism!
I am just outside of this new district in the Alexandria suburbs.