Elena Kagan Says She'll Never Accept Supreme Court's Partisan Gerrymandering Ruling

[hlthe2b]

Kagan dissented strongly in the June 27 case and said Thursday she was writing for the future.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elena-kagan-partisan-gerrymandering_n_5d30e30ae4b020cd9940e727

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Kagan also said she was writing for the future, when the court might be willing to revisit its thinking on partisan gerrymandering.

“You’re not writing the dissent because you just saw the thing differently and you think everybody should know that there were two sides to this issue. You’re writing a dissent because you want to convince the future,” she said. “For the future, you know, maybe the court will change its mind on this one. Maybe things will happen that will convince it to change its mind. Maybe the world will look different enough in however many years that this will be an appropriate opportunity.”

“There are dissents where it’s like, ‘Well, I saw the case differently, here’s the way I saw it and now we start all over again.’ And there are dissents that are ‘This is abysmally wrong,’” she added.

Kagan also encouraged reformers who are working to rein in gerrymandering absent action by the federal courts. After the Supreme Court’s decision, those reformers are looking to bring gerrymandering challenges before state courts and to create independent redistricting commissions as pathways to a fairer process.

[rampartc]

1. for the next generation or 2 this issue (and many others), will be decided in state courts

their activist judges are in place at the federal level.

[ProudLib72]

2. Unless we win 2020 by a landslide and up the number of SCOTUS judges

and then revisit the issue. That way it would only be a few years away.

I am hopeful.

[rampartc]

3. we will not up the number of justices

2020 will be close if we win at all.

these people are vicious reptiles, and they adore their "god emperor"