Why did the right-leaning supreme court hand Democrats a victory? | Moira Donegan

Perhaps they know they need to preserve whatever is left of their legitimacy

The supreme court shocked the nation on Thursday by doing something uncharacteristic, unexpected, and to many, downright confusing: they declined to eviscerate what remains of the Voting Rights Act.

By the standards of the reactionary court, the result in Allen v Milligan, a challenge to an Alabama congressional district map that crams most of the state's 27% Black voting population into just one district, was downright astounding.