If it’s “shocking” to you, consider ditching the news sources that led you to assume that the court will definitely vote the opposite way. These sources did it intentionally, and they will do it again and again.
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IT WAS A 5-4 DECISION TO NOT ALLOW VOTING DISCRIMINATION
That means "hey, it's still on the table, but you gotta come up with a better excuse"
mfw an unelected council of lifetime appointed lords uses powers not in the constitution to extend the woefully inadequate protections for voting by the thinnest margin thereby proving america is the shining city on the hill of democracy
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Alabama gets to keep both of its heavily gerrymandered House districts! Yay!
Don Seigelman will be thrilled.
Here I am, hoping this awful body corrects the terrible gerrymandering in Ohio.