The Supreme Court's order and dissents can be found here. https://t.co/VfdCaw3aos

This is another major blow to the Voting Rights Act that will likely preserve Alabama's current racist gerrymander.

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) February 7, 2022

Kagan, dissenting: The court's decision today "does a disservice to Black Alabamians" who "have had their electoral power diminished—in violation of a law this Court once knew to buttress all of American democracy." https://t.co/iM4jxk75po pic.twitter.com/YCKjLYCSbg

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) February 7, 2022

For those who told us that we couldn’t scare them into voting for Hillary by using the Courts…

With today's decision, the Supreme Court's five far-right justices have effectively rewritten the Voting Rights Act, obliterating its vital protections against racial gerrymandering—and doing it through the shadow docket.

A dark day for the VRA. https://t.co/52d5DpSx1q @Slate

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) February 8, 2022

What say you, now?

For the Trifling Trick duo of Manchin and Sinema who just weeks ago refused to allow a carve out of the filibuster for Voting Rights, what say you, now?

The Supreme Court also granted cert in this case and will issue a decision later this term—teeing up the opportunity to eviscerate the Voting Rights Act's remaining protections for racial minorities against gerrymanders that dilute their voting strength.

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) February 7, 2022

As for Roberts, that vote was for show. That he let this case be decided on the Shadow Docket tells you all you need to know😠

If you're curious about Roberts dissenting, he implies that the Court should overrule Gingles and hence neuter what remains of the Voting Rights Act, but he thinks that the controlling precedent should actually be applied until this happens. The other Republicans just can't wait.

— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) February 8, 2022

I still can't get over Kavanaugh's assertion that a January decision about a law passed in November is just too close to an election for the courts to intervene. There are elections every two years! Purcell is just being used to flat-out create rights with no remedies

— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) February 8, 2022

The #Alabama redistricting plan been called a textbook example of discrimination against Black voters. It isn’t the kind of explicit voting discrimination, like poll taxes & literacy tests, that was used during the Jim Crow era. Instead, it is more subtle. https://t.co/XN7yp6uwGN

— Gary Dunavant (@Garybham) February 5, 2022

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has put on hold a lower court ruling that Alabama must draw new congressional districts before the 2022 elections, boosting Republican chances to hold six of the state’s seven seats in the House of Representatives. https://t.co/nA0JJ5CEPu

— The Associated Press (@AP) February 7, 2022