/2 "to show that gerrymandering is racist rather than merely partisan the challenger has to offer race-neutral partisan alternatives" is relatively new despicable shit, and "a state gerrymandering based on a president's explicit written demand for racial gerrymandering is presumed cool" is fresh.

/2 1. Real human beings will suffer from even a brief stay. 2. The government's position is transparently dishonest and in bad faith. 3. The Supreme Court has lost any benefit of the doubt. They have lost the mandate of the heaven that is the rule of law.

/4 SCOTUS has lost the presumption of regularity -- the mandate of the legal heavens -- through its shadow docket actions, which by invoking SCOTUS' equitable discretionary powers have obliterated the pretext that SCOTUS is merely calling balls and strikes, merely calling lines where they see them.

@davidgerard There have been short periods of sluggishness and 503 error messages. It's definitely better than before, but it looks like we're still getting hammered. Internet Archive has also been having 503 error messages tonight on their search result page.

@davidgerard It's back already, just a brief outage apparently.

@mothninja Enoch's Hammer returns.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Luddite