In 2022 when Kavanaugh ruled to preserve Alabama’S racially gerrymandered voting districts deemed illegal because it would be “unfair”? Can’t Tennessee just claim that it wouldn’t be fair to fix things this close to an election?
“When an election is close at hand, the rules of the road must be clear and settled,” Kavanaugh elaborates. “Late judicial tinkering with election laws can lead to disruption and to unanticipated and unfair consequences for candidates, political parties, and voters, among others. It is one thing for a State on its own to toy with its election laws close to a State’s elections. But it is quite another thing for a federal court to swoop in and re-do a State’s election laws in the period close to an election.”
At the time, that sounded to me like “it’s cool to do illegal shit surrounding elections, so long as you fix it after the election when the illegal shit has done its job and no longer matters”. Can somebody explain to me why Tennessee wouldn’t keep fighting to disenfranchise voters and what, if any, consequences they would face if they didn’t just ignore the court until after the election?
