John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh joined the three Democratic-appointed justices to rule that Congressional maps in Alabama were racially gerrymandered.
Advertisementhave already been done to voting rights, and this decision only preserves the status quo—so, no, the court doesn’t deserve that much credit for this move, although it is surprising. Certainly, most reporters, including myself, expected the case to go the other way and had to scramble to change our prewrites.
to drop, including ones on anti-discrimination laws for LGBTQ people, affirmative action, and student loan relief. It also. This feels like a damage control offering for when pundits and reporters try to summarize the entire term; those people might be tempted to say the court isn’t totally off the rails. And they’d be wrong—it’s beyond time to reform this broken institution that strips rights away with almost no accountability, and one good decision doesn’t change that.
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