"The Supreme Court’s attacks on voting rights are about rigging elections for Republicans," said Rep. Greg Casar, the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
For the unaware, the fifth circuit court is packed with the most conservative judges in the country. Packing it was part of the Southern Strategy, because it allows conservatives to appeal liberal laws and reliably get in front of a batshit crazy conservative judge. Pretty much every time you see some sort of “federal judge overturns liberal law” headline, it is from the fifth circuit.
The Fifth Circuit has entered the chat.
For the unaware, the fifth circuit court is packed with the most conservative judges in the country. Packing it was part of the Southern Strategy, because it allows conservatives to appeal liberal laws and reliably get in front of a batshit crazy conservative judge. Pretty much every time you see some sort of “federal judge overturns liberal law” headline, it is from the fifth circuit.
Okay, so they’ll get one justice whose influence will be sufficiently diluted by the other twelve.
The dose makes the poison.