STATEMENT FROM CONGRESSMAN JOHNSON ON SCOTUS RULING SHIELDING REPUBLICAN GERRYMANDER

House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts Ranking Member issued the following statement after the Supreme Court sided with Republicans protecting a GOP-held district in NYC

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- “The law is supposed to be predictable and consistent,” said Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence and the Internet. “Yet the Roberts Court once again has withheld that reliability from the American people. The unprecedented decision to grant extraordinary emergency relief in Malliotakis v. Williams serves only to highlight the inconsistency and unpredictability that has come to define the Court’s emergency docket. Like too many other emergency docket decisions before it, this case was expedited without rigorous briefing and oral argument, yielding a hasty decision that undermines previously stated principles of jurisdiction, federalism and equity. The Supreme Court should be better than a double-standard disguised as principle and Americans deserve a court that acts as more than a rubber stamp for the President.”

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