Political questions

The Roberts Court has successfully used the shadow docket to force Wisconsin to institute an extreme pro-Republican gerrymander:

Just to be clear: The Wisconsin Supreme Court initially adopted a reasonably fair legislative map. Then SCOTUS issued an utterly nonsensical decision that all but forced the Wisconsin Supreme Court to adopt the GOP’s most extreme gerrymander. https://t.co/A3xgMBkP0q https://t.co/KsJLBFxqsf— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) April 15, 2022

So, to review:

• In one of the worst decisions in the Court’s largely dismal history, its Republican faction ruled that there was no remedy for unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders because providing one would mean that the Court was entering the “political thicket,” and there was no possible judicial standard because social science is witchcraft and as for the fact that multiple state and federal courts have applied a workable standard is…have you ever considered that if only Strom Thurmond had won in 1948 we wouldn’t have had any of these problems?
• A few years later the Court entered the political thicket to require Wisconsin to adopt a gerrymandered map, under the novel yet idiotic theory that equal representation is the real racism.

“Does (the decision) read like something that was purely results driven and designed to impose the policy preferences of the majority, or does this read like it actually is an honest effort and persuasive effort?” — Amy “Coathanger” Barrett (R-IND).