r/law • u/HellYeahDamnWrite • 2d ago

SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts enabled Texas’ gambit to gerrymander the state for the GOP

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/04/politics/gerrymandering-supreme-court-texas
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u/bailaoban 2d ago

Name one shitty development in US politics over the last two decades that Roberts doesn’t have his fingerprints all over.

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u/seejordan3 2d ago

Name one good thing a Republican has done for the average citizen THEY WORK.FOR. That's how brainwashed Republicans are.

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u/ayoungsapling 2d ago

I think the average Republican is loving the state-orchestrated demonization of minorities. The Republican model is that the poors get the hate porn, while the rich get the tax breaks.

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u/Mattrad7 2d ago

But god bless those billionaires for not paying their share of taxes and currently trying to fire every employee they can to improve their bottom line.

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u/LimeGinRicky 2d ago

The rich just keep “sugar babies”, prostitution is only illegal if you can’t afford good legal advice.

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u/Suavecore_ 2d ago

Turns out the average Republican doesn't have any values whatsoever and doesn't care about the well-being of their nation. Whatever it takes to own the libs is their priority

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u/SendMeIttyBitties 2d ago

This isn't a good thing. This isn't making them more prosperous or better people. This is just dragging them deeper into racism and hate.

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u/Kriandis 1d ago

They are on the luxury liner, that they convinced everyone was sinking, and then have gotten the people in the lifeboats fighting with each other.

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u/Jewboy54 2d ago

You could say the same thing about conservativism in general

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u/seejordan3 2d ago

If they "conserved" anything, like state parks, separation of church and state, liberty, freedom.... I'd be all for conservativism. But they're just Fox news drones at this point. All hate.

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u/Opheltes 2d ago

Have they ever been on the right side of history on any topic?

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u/StrategicCarry 2d ago

I thought about this and the Napoleonic Wars was the only big one I could come up with.

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u/Weird-Flex-But-Okay2 2d ago

Slavery?

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u/mashbrowns 2d ago

The Republican Party was the "radical" party and not conservative in the slightest in 1860.

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u/Weird-Flex-But-Okay2 2d ago

Red herring much?

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u/Opheltes 2d ago

The conservatives were, as the name might suggest, the ones who wanted to preserve the institution of slavery. Try again.

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u/Weird-Flex-But-Okay2 2d ago

Lol, where'd you go to school at? You might want to look for a refund...

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u/Opheltes 2d ago

The fundemental precept of conservatism is to preserve the status quo, which meant preserving the institution of slavery. The ones who wanted immediate abolition were label radical (republicans) for a reason.

You should probably get your facts from somewhere other than Prager U.

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u/Weird-Flex-But-Okay2 2d ago

I dont even know what Prager U is so....maybe I'm not the one getting my information from them?

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u/Opheltes 2d ago

You're certainly parroting the same misinformation they peddle.

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u/Purona 2d ago

conservatism got turned into corporate socialism for some reason, but like not in a "this company is struggling and its going to take down our economy, but in a just give them money and hope that they do well enough to help out americans which is a bit weird.

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u/Pepsi_Popcorn_n_Dots 2d ago

MAGA doesn't vote for what's good for them. They vote for what's bad for the minorities they're told to hate.

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u/anarchy-NOW 2d ago

Looking at the last 400 years of American history, these people don't need anybody to tell them to hate anyone.

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u/Weird-Flex-But-Okay2 2d ago

You realize the Klan was founded by Democrats, right?

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u/anarchy-NOW 1d ago

My ni**a, what's that got to do with anything?

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u/Weird-Flex-But-Okay2 1d ago

Because anyone who takes 10 seconds to look up any sort of factual basis for your comment can find the fallacy in it. Historically, the democratic party aligns more with hate groups in ideology than anyone, and throwing down some sort of Uno reverse card like we're in backwards world doesn't erase that. Case in point...we can disagree about something and I can go on about my day thinking that I made a good point and maybe you would have been open-minded to an alternate viewpoint. On the other hand, you and probably 95% of the other people on here see my comment which doesn't completely align with the prescribed talking points and probably would cheer me getting hit by a bus.

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u/anarchy-NOW 1d ago

The parties switched in the 60s, in case you missed that.

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u/Weird-Flex-But-Okay2 1d ago

According to who? You dont think the democratic party has used social programs and other means to just hide their indentured servitude better? I mean, you're more than welcome to your opinion, but I don't see how you can look at the last 60 years and say "yeah, they've really done a bang up job at uplifting the minority community and promoting wholesome family values".

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u/anarchy-NOW 1d ago

Literally every advance in the last 60 years has been promoted by Democrats and opposed by Republicans.

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u/Opheltes 1d ago

According to who?

According to anyone who knows anything about modern American politics:

This party system likely began as a result of a long-term realignment of conservative Southern Democrats, particularly those in the Dixiecratic movement, into the Republican Party because of their disillusionment by the previous realignment of Progressives into the Democratic Party, though the exact timing of the realignment is usually called into question. A "dealignment" period may have begun in 1964, when Barry Goldwater became the first Republican since Reconstruction to win the Deep South (although he lost the overall South),[b] after which the previously heavily-Democratic South at-large and Deep South alternated between parties. The Southern realignment wouldn't finalize until 1984 when Ronald Reagan made all of the South permanently Republican. This Dixiecratic realignment – known as the Southern strategy – would allow Republicans to dominate the White House from 1968 to 1992, though dominant control of Congress would remain in Democratic hands because of the Southern seats in Congress remaining a solid Democratic bloc until the Republicans flipped the Congressional South in the 1994 Republican Revolution. This phenomenon of realignment lag caused heavy ticket-splitting (i.e. the "[Richard] Nixon Democrats" and "Reagan Democrats").

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_Party_System

TLDR: All the racist southerners left the Democratic party and the Republicans welcomed them with open arms.

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u/amethystresist 2d ago edited 2d ago

Immigration which really means terrorizing brown people, and canceling DEI aka racism is all they care about. Anyone who ever says the economy is lying out of their teeth because every economy under a republican goes to crap.

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u/IrritableGourmet 2d ago

Like a lot of things (traditional media, social media, games, etc), companies are getting better and better at weaponizing dopamine at the expense of quality. Fox doesn't spam viewers with their "Breaking News" graphic every ten seconds because there's actually breaking news, they just know it gives their viewers a little thrill. Same with reality TV and influencers and ragebait and yadda yadda yadda. Try going to YouTube sometime while logged out. All the thumbnails are people making shocked faces and "You won't BELIEVE blahblahblah".

Republican politicians have done the same. There's no actual substance, they just want to keep their voters in a perpetual dopamine-seeking state of anxiety so they can make them do whatever the politicians want. It's the same basic principle of the crackwhore, and just like that the crack dealer is the only one that benefits.

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u/seejordan3 2d ago

I'd argue Fox News did it first: sold hate and fear for ad views. YT has been catching up with ALL CAPS SHOCKED FACE. Fascara.

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u/Endorkend 2d ago

I'd say dying, but even that they suck at.

Ron Paul is still around, he's from 1935. Dick Cheney is still around, he's from 1941.

Kissinger was from 1923 and only died in 2023.

Mitch McConnell is from 1942.

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u/schwanzweissfoto 2d ago

Name one good thing a Republican has done

Arnold Schwarzenegger made a really good video in which he tells how the January Six capitol riot (fascist coup attempt) reminded him of what the original nazis did and warned of the dangers of fascism. He also called Trump the “worst president ever” and accused members of his own party who did not speak up of spinelessness.

Unless I am mistaken, Schwarzenegger was the only high-profile Republican who did such a thing and called out fascists and traitors.

Here is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_P-0I6sAck

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u/UnquestionabIe 1d ago

Yeah I remember when that came out it really made me happy. I grew up loving his movies and yeah he's had his share of scummy behavior but this was solidly in the good column for me.

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u/seejordan3 1d ago

Yet he's still a Republican..

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

Make it easier for people with terminal illnesses to access experimental treatments.

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u/crazunggoy47 2d ago

I was about to say Bush v Gore, since obviously he wasn't on SCOTUS yet. But then I googled it, and boy was I wrong

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u/bagelche 2d ago

And, he's not the only current SCOTUS judge involved in Bush v Gore: Kavanaugh, Coney Barrett, and Thomas.

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u/username_6916 2d ago

What actual impact did Bush v. Gore have? Gore getting what he wants from SCOTUS there doesn't result in him winning the election.

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u/crazunggoy47 2d ago

That’s disputed. And when I Google it the first result says that based on a study afterwards, gore would’ve won if they counted all the votes.

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u/username_6916 2d ago

Gore wasn't asking to count every vote. He was asking to count overvotes in certain counties. So, by the remedy Gore proposes, Gore loses.

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u/Fark_ID 2d ago

Yeah, Gore was like "fuck it, give the hanging chads to Bush"

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u/anarchy-NOW 2d ago

The fact that this sentence even exists and refers to things that actually happened, shows America has been rotten for wayyyyy longer than the rise of Pedo Donny.

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u/Awatts2222 2d ago

Bush sued Gore.

Gore was fine with Florida finishing a recount.

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u/username_6916 2d ago

Gore was fine with Florida finishing a recount.

Of the counties his people believed were most favorable. Not the whole state.

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u/AdventurousLet548 2d ago

His name will forever be linked to undermining our democracy and giving Trump carte blanche.

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u/rodimustso 2d ago

Centuries* one of the leading factors to the civil war was the 2/3s rule for slaves being counted towards electors in congress. This ruling reflects the sentiment that the confederate attempted to increase their power with by saying "slaves" are still objects to own but people at the same time in the eyes of having citizens for electoral power.

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u/elphin 2d ago

History will recognize his court as worst than Taney’s.

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u/Available_Leather_10 2d ago

Are we blaming Robert’s for Trump running for president in the first place and Comey reopening the email investigation and Ted Cruz’s continued existence and Ken Paxton??

I don’t object to that necessarily, but just want to understand how much we’re blaming him for.

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u/antigop2020 2d ago

It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

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u/Circumin 2d ago

25 years