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15. It was the bare minimum the court could do to show they weren't a bunch of hacks

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Wed Feb 4, 2026, 06:30 PM

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in the decision for the Texas case, where the evidence race was involved was orders of magnitude more, Alito made clear that he thought the CA gerrymander was political not racial.

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