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Basically the majority said, 'I do what I want!'

You know, this is the most conservative court that we could i think imagine in the last, you know, 50 or 60 years. there's no question about it. and there are lots of elements of the way in which this court operates that should concern us and concerns me as a lawyer, and so it's not just the outcome of the cases, but it's also the process. and if you actually believe in the legal process, which i do. i'm kind of nerdy about the stuff. then you are alarmed about the conduct of the court with the shadow docket. you are alarmed about not just that section 2 of the voting rights act was weakened b...

>> well, it's unusual except in light of what the court has been doing in the last year or so which is what we call the shadow docket. that is not even having oral argument and briefing. so it's good news that the court is slowing down its midnight rulings without fully hearing it out with the parties. but this is very unusual to have the court take something on an expedited basis. normally you have to file a petition for cert and wait until the next term, the fall, as we're sitting to await huge decisions in june like around abortion. so this conservative court has been very, very active, phi...

>> well, this case is, i think, a turning point, alex, and the fact that the alabama legislature, which has only 14 days to draw these new maps, the fact that they've not yet scheduled a special session suggests that they're very confident that they will win in the supreme court. they have asked the court to take the case, but pending right now on the supreme court's shadow docket is a motion that would keep the district court's ruling from going into effect. in essence, that would mean alabama would keep the same maps it already has that draws only one of its seven congressional districts in ...

Entered the redistricting, using a shadow docket ruling to block the creation of a second majority black congressional district in alabama. and despite a jump in alabama's black population, the new gop designed map actually decrease the groups electoral power. that map, backed black into one single black majority district, and cracked or broke up the rest into six other districts. where their numbers would not be large enough to have any real impact. just look at how awkward that map looks. under long-standing supreme court precedent, that kind of racial gerrymandering is usually prohibited du...