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At the federal level, though, what remained after Rucho was mostly a part of the Voting Rights Act. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law

Simplified: At the federal level what remained after Rucho was mostly part of the Voting Rights Act.

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Writing for the majority in the Rucho case, Chief Justice Roberts said that state courts and independent redistricting commissions still have a role to play in addressing partisan gerrymandering. 1.000

👤 Chief Justice Roberts 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law

Simplified: Chief Justice Roberts said state courts and redistricting commissions still have a role in addressing partisan gerrymandering in Rucho.

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These developments reflect a federal judiciary increasingly unwilling to engage in judicial review of the political process,” he said. 0.800

👤 Derek T. Muller 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law

Simplified: Federal judiciary is increasingly unwilling to engage in judicial review of the political process.

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The Rucho decision was part of a larger trend, said Derek T. Muller, a law professor at Notre Dame. 0.800

👤 Derek T. Muller 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law

Simplified: Derek T Muller said the Rucho decision was part of a larger trend.

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If left unchecked, gerrymanders like the ones here may irreparably damage our system of government. 0.700

👤 Justice Elena Kagan 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law

Simplified: Unchecked gerrymanders may irreparably damage our system of government.

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They encouraged a politics of polarization and dysfunction. 0.900

👤 Justice Elena Kagan 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law

Simplified: Gerrymanders encourage a politics of polarization and dysfunction.

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“They promoted partisanship above respect for the popular will. 0.900

👤 Justice Elena Kagan 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law

Simplified: Gerrymanders promote partisanship above respect for popular will.

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“These gerrymanders enabled politicians to entrench themselves in office as against voters’ preferences,” she wrote. 0.900

👤 Justice Elena Kagan 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law

Simplified: Gerrymanders enable politicians to entrench themselves against voters' preferences.

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“Partisan gerrymandering claims,” he wrote, “present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts.” 1.000

👤 Chief Justice Roberts 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law

Simplified: Partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond federal courts' reach.

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Justice Elena Kagan said the court had betrayed its most fundamental commitment — to protect democracy. 0.900

👤 Justice Elena Kagan 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law

Simplified: Justice Elena Kagan said the Supreme Court betrayed its commitment to protect democracy.

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drawing voting districts to give the party in power lopsided advantages was “incompatible with democratic principles.” 1.000

👤 Chief Justice Roberts 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law

Simplified: Drawing voting districts for lopsided advantages is incompatible with democratic principles.

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President Trump’s effort to create five additional Republican House seats in Texas, for instance, is possible in part thanks to a 2019 Supreme Court decision that said federal courts have no role to p... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law

Simplified: President Trump's effort to create Republican House seats in Texas is possible due to a 2019 Supreme Court decision.

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Chief Justice Roberts, writing for the majority in that 5-to-4 decision, Rucho v. Common Cause, acknowledged that “excessive partisanship in districting leads to results that reasonably seem unjust.” 1.000

👤 Chief Justice Roberts 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law

Simplified: Chief Justice Roberts acknowledged excessive partisanship in districting leads to unjust results in Rucho v Common Cause.

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Richard L. Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, said the Roberts court may be moving in the opposite direction. 0.700

👤 Richard L. Hasen 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law

Simplified: Richard L Hasen said the Roberts court may be moving in the opposite direction.

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That made them more important in his view even than Brown v. Board of Education, which ordered the desegregation of public schools. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law , History

Simplified: Vote equality decisions were more important to Chief Justice Warren than Brown v Board of Education.

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In his memoirs, Chief Justice Warren described decisions establishing the equality of each citizen’s vote as his court’s most important achievements. 1.000

👤 Chief Justice Warren 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law , History

Simplified: Chief Justice Warren described vote equality decisions as his court's most important achievements in his memoirs.

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At bottom, the court’s election-law decisions seem aimed at dismantling decisions of the famously liberal court led by Chief Justice Earl Warren from 1953 to 1969. 0.800

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law

Simplified: The Supreme Court's election-law decisions aim to dismantle decisions of Chief Justice Earl Warren's liberal court.

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The court’s rulings have been of a piece with its conservative wing’s jurisprudential commitments: giving states leeway in many realms, insisting on an expansive interpretation of the First Amendment... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law

Simplified: The Supreme Court's rulings align with its conservative wing's commitments giving states leeway interpreting the First Amendment expansively and viewi...

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Taken together, the court’s actions in election cases in recent years have shown great tolerance for partisan gamesmanship and great skepticism about federal laws on campaign spending and minority rig... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law

Simplified: The Supreme Court's election case actions show tolerance for partisan gamesmanship and skepticism about campaign spending laws and minority rights.

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There are now signs that court is considering striking down or severely constraining the remaining pillar of the Voting Rights Act, a towering achievement of the civil rights movement that has protect... 0.700

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law

Simplified: The Supreme Court may strike down or constrain the Voting Rights Act's remaining pillar.

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