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Supreme Court and judiciary news, redistricting and elections. Analysis is my own.
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Jan 31 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🚨 A federal judge has issued a writ of habeas corpus ordering the release of an asylum seeker and his 5 year old son, holding that ICE administrative warrants fail the 4th Amendment's probable cause requirement.

Read the 3-page ruling here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…Image
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Image This is honestly the most unhinged opinion of a federal judge that I've ever read. The scathing and antagonistic language is one thing, but he makes a sweeping holding that the 4th Amendment requires an independent judicial officer, not administrative warrants, with ZERO analysis.
Jan 21 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🚨 A New York judge has STRUCK DOWN the State's congressional map under the NY Constitution.

Justice Pearlman orders the IRC to redraw NY-11 into a Black/Latino influence district by linking Staten Island and lower Manhattan, dismantling Republican Nicole Malliotakis's seat. Image
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Image The new map must be in place by February 6th, 2026. The current NY-11 has existed since 1980.

Pearlman's test largely tracks the current framework used for Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act as applied to redistricting.
Jan 10 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🚨 A federal judge has STRUCK DOWN most of President Trump's Executive Order on election integrity.

The Court holds that the President exceeded his authority and violated separation of powers because election regulation rests with Congress and the states. Image
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Image What the Court permanently enjoined:

§ 2(a): Requiring documentary proof of citizenship on the federal voter registration form.

§ 4(a): Conditioning federal election funding on compliance with EO-mandated requirements.

§ 4(b): Mandating changes to federal voting system certification standards and rescinding prior certifications.

§ 7(a) & § 7(b): Enforcing a same-day ballot receipt rule and conditioning funding on compliance.
Dec 15, 2025 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
🚨 The United States has accused the @dccc and @paulmitche11 of SEVERE misconduct in its lawsuit challenging California's new congressional map.

A 3 day hearing on the map is set to begin TODAY, and the US asks for a declaration that could win them the case.

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Image Despite agreeing to a Dec. 3 hearing, CA tried to delay to January 20th, over a month after the date that it now admits it must have a map in place.

The court called this an "11th hour" move without a clear justification, but granted a delay to Dec. 15 to allow for DISCOVERY. Image