Friday, May 24, 2024

Supreme Court allows disputed South Carolina voting map, a win for GOP - The Washington Post

Justice Elena Kagan, writing for the justices nominated by Democrats, said the majority got it "seriously wrong." 

"Perhaps most dispiriting is what lies behind the court's new approach — its special rules to specifically disadvantage suits to remedy race-based redistricting," Kagan wrote in an opinion joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson. 

Kagan warned that the majority opinion sends a message to lawmakers and mapmakers to use race as a proxy to achieve partisan ends...


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