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It's unfortunate, but so many people with STRONG opinions on and reactions to the SCOTUS ruling on districting aren't familiar with either the background of the case or what the ruling actually said.

That's understandable as so many influencers are writing completely false stories on background and analysis.

Start with the background. LA drew a map but was ordered by a lower court to draw a new one. So it did. And then a different lower court said it could not draw a new one. It both could and could not act based on the exact same legal reasoning.

THIS is the mess the SCOTUS needed to clean up. VRA was already unworkable long before this case.

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