Alabama GOP refuses to draw second Black district, despite Supreme Court order

what's to stop government officials from simply ignoring the Supreme Court

A federal government being willing to enforce the law Reconstruction style and send in federal troops to effect the arrest of these traitors and the unconditional surrender of their government. Anything less is just giving the anti-democratic forces time to get stronger and chip away at more of our society.

We are most certainly within a constitutional crisis. You can probably start the timeline at the 2000 Supreme Court ruling where the court said it had no authority to rule, but it did. The republicans blocking the supreme court nomination was also a clear breakdown of the system.

Legally? Nothing. See Worcester v. Georgia, where the apocryphal quote "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it" comes from.

Ultimately, though, if a state decides it doesn't want to follow federal law any more, that's secession, and we've fought a civil war over it before.

Just like every other part of their religion.

It's actually not a Constitutional crisis. Specifically because there's practically zero enumerated duties of SCOTUS in the Constitution.

Thank Marshall for conniving his way into actual power for the court. But it can vanish just as easily.

Just like they do with preaching a book they don't even read themselves. And only preach parts of it. And only when it's convenient for them.

Well, there are options aside from sending in troops. The article notes that there can still be challenges to these maps, and one outcome is that the court throws out the legislatures maps entirely and hires a special master.

Maybe they should hire the one they used in NY. He was so effective at making competitive districts and avoiding gerrymandering that the Democrats lost 4 House seats there, making up most of the Republican Majority this Congress. If your goal is to level the playing field, he's your man.

The thing is, there’s nothing to find out. The SC (compromised as it is) says “no, you can’t do that”. The state government is saying “cool bro imma do it anyways”. If the feds impose a new map, what happens if the state just ignores it outright? Or any other measures intended to enforce this decision?

The executive branch is the only branch with significant enforcement capabilities. If the branches revolt it will be a quick coup.

I don't think folks are recognizing the amount of FAFO going on.

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Well there have been a few that have said they're just gonna keep doing it. Nothing's gonna happen.

Surely the answer is "exactly as intended"?

The funny thing is if you go back to George Bush - they were conceivably on the path to have a permanent majority if they ever got their immigration reform plan done. Latinos y centroamericanos are overwhelmingly Catholic and to various degrees on the conservative side of things, and the Republicans threw it all away to be racist.

Because you're seeing the results of a decades long plan to brainwash their citizens into always voting against their own best interests.

It started with gutting mental health services, then they moved on to defunding education. That let them sell their people on all of the blatantly obvious lies.

You can thank Reagan for that, just like most of the other major issues with the country.