Two important pieces further explaining the danger and dishonesty of Brett Kavanaugh's opinion last night.
First, from @steve_vladeck, explaining how Kavanaugh's defense of the shadow docket "gives up the game": slate.com/news-and-polit…
First, from @steve_vladeck, explaining how Kavanaugh's defense of the shadow docket "gives up the game": slate.com/news-and-polit…
Second, from @imillhiser, explaining how Kavanaugh's novel theory of the Purcell principle "would strip the federal judiciary of much of its power to protect voting rights" by creating new burdens on plaintiffs "that may be impossible to overcome."
vox.com/2022/2/8/22922…
vox.com/2022/2/8/22922…
Reading these two excellent pieces together really drives home how insincere, duplicitous, and illogical Kavanaugh's opinion was—it's seven straight pages of bad faith dressed up in rhetoric that screams "I'm so reasonable! I'm so principled!" Don't buy it. He's lying.
Here is one of the most obnoxious lies in Kavanaugh's opinion.
He claims that redrawing Alabama's map "would require heroic efforts" in "the next few weeks."
But as Kagan points out, Alabama enacted its current plan in LESS THAN A WEEK. Fixing it would take maybe one day.
He claims that redrawing Alabama's map "would require heroic efforts" in "the next few weeks."
But as Kagan points out, Alabama enacted its current plan in LESS THAN A WEEK. Fixing it would take maybe one day.
Kavanaugh has bottomless empathy for the poor, beleaguered Alabama Republicans who (gasp!) might have to draw a congressional map that doesn't violate the Voting Rights Act.
Meanwhile, he evinces zero empathy for Black voters whose political power just got radically diminished.
Meanwhile, he evinces zero empathy for Black voters whose political power just got radically diminished.
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