SCOTUS Clears Way for Alabama to Use Congressional Map
5/14/202658 min
Sarah Isgur and David French discuss the emergency docket ruling from SCOTUS on Alabama’s congressional maps, which broke down over three-justice ideological lines, Virginia’s filing (yes, they did file) at the Supreme Court, and a very special 2-1 9th Circuit panel opinion. The Agenda: –Remember Allen v. Milligan? –Central, urban bonkerstown –14th Amendment Equal Protection argument vs. Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act –Virginia files gerrymandering case at SCOTUS –Biogradable cooler dispute, are you Team Gorsuch or Team Kavanaugh? –Why 5-4? –Would You Rather: Due Process Clause or Equal Protection Clause? Show Notes: –Remarks by Sen. A. Shane Massey on the Sine Die Resolution and Congressional Redistricting Advisory Opinions is a production of SCOTUSblog and The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a nonpartisan perspective. Click here to sign up for our new Advisory Opinions newsletter, and click here to access all of The Dispatch’s offerings, including audio versions of all our articles and newsletters. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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[upbeat rock music] Welcome to Advisory Opinions. I'm Sarah Isgur, that's David French. We have a emergency docket, interim docket ruling from the Supreme Court about Alabama's congressional maps. Remember Allen v. Milligan? Well, guess what? They've sent it back over a three-justice dissent along ideological lines. We're gonna break it down. Who got that one right, and what happens now? Plus, Virginia actually did file at the US Supreme Court. Is it as central urban bonkers town as David and I predicted? And a very special 2-1 Ninth Circuit panel opinion that will define who you are as a judge on that Y-axis, the institutionalism thing we've been talking about. Are you a Kavanaugh or are you a Gorsuch? Uh, plus an idea from Jesse Wegman at the Brennan Center, should we raise the bar for the Supreme Court to strike down an act of Congress? Why are we doing this 5-4 stuff? Let's make it 7-2. Uh, and lastly, a special Would You Rather, Due Process Clause or Equal Protection Clause? You can only pick one. All this and more on Advisory Opinions.