SCOTUS Hands Alabama Major Boost In Redistricting Fight – Full Article

That led the court’s DEI appointee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, to vehemently dissent, calling the 8-1 ruling “unwarranted and unwise.”

Jackson said the court should “stay on the sidelines” to “avoid the appearance of partiality,” pointing to the court’s traditional reluctance to make changes right before an election.

“And just like that, those principles give way to power,” she wrote, failing to noted that in this case, Louisiana’s current congressional maps have been ruled unconstitutional and therefore cannot be sustained.

Justice Samuel Alito, who authored the majority opinion in the Callais case, strongly pushed back in a concurrence that was joined by fellow conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch.