Marcus’s wise analysis omits one component: the vast right-wing apparatus out to “capture” the court. (See “agency capture” or “regulatory capture.”)https://t.co/1fDwyjFP7J
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) April 10, 2022
CMD puts the secret funding behind this operation at $580 million. Massive funding implies massive motive. Single donations ran as high as $17 million dollars.
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) April 10, 2022
https://twitter.com/mild7/status/1508109089041260557
Maybe they’re afraid Clarence won’t be around much longer:
#BREAKING: #SCOTUS uses shadow docket to summarily throw out Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling adopting Governor Evers’s redistricting maps.
Sotomayor and Kagan publicly dissent: pic.twitter.com/tNDV7pbDSK
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) March 23, 2022
The Court using the shadow docket to imply that the 14th Amendment and VRA require Wisconsin to have more gerrymandered electoral maps that give less representation to Black voters is incredible stuff even by Roberts Court standards https://t.co/kBYPVqk1fn
— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) March 23, 2022
If anything, Sotomayor's dissent undersells just how "unprecedented" this decision is. It appears to dramatically alter the law of redistricting to make it much harder for states to draw majority-Black districts—all through a cryptic shadow docket ruling. https://t.co/po1Tepd1uW pic.twitter.com/7CCcRmXw7B
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) March 23, 2022
There is literally no discussion of the Purcell principle in the unsigned majority opinion—even though the majority has repeatedly used Purcell to prevent federal courts from altering election laws shortly before an election. Which is what the majority just did.
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) March 23, 2022
This looks like a video of thousands of students walking out against the “Don’t Say Gay” bill in Cypress Hill, FL. But it’s also a snapshot of the generations of future voters who are coming for DeSantis & the Florida GOP. pic.twitter.com/QAoU1gJqXd
— Kate 🪬🤍🇺🇸 (@ImSpeaking13) March 9, 2022
— Ethan Lynne (@ethanclynne) February 5, 2022
“Elaborate escape tunnels,” backyard razor wire, and hidden unregistered cars are must-haves for totally not-guilty, red-blooded, all-American, MAGA-patriots. https://t.co/lfZq9nhRnV @digby56 pic.twitter.com/14FDaFuhm5
— @TomSullivan@mstdn.social (@BloggersRUs) January 27, 2022
https://twitter.com/SorrellBarb/status/1485697252748402692
The numbers of criminal extremists with military backgrounds has been going through the roof. The problem runs deep.https://t.co/cQZLhsX5bn
— David Neiwert (@DavidNeiwert) January 20, 2022
The foul flood of money that has rotted the foundations of our institutions began while the former president* was still “firing” people on his TV show. https://t.co/I12vUVbPbI
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) January 12, 2022
No one who actually read anything about Youngkin should have believed the whitewashing:
"Many Virginians believed that Youngkin and Virginia's 2021 GOP candidates really were mainstream Republicans. Some Biden voters assumed the risks were modest and GOP governance wouldn't be alarming at all.
Those assumptions are due for a reevaluation."https://t.co/CLJXG8eD1c
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) January 12, 2022
