Yesterday, #SCOTUS summarily reversed the three-judge district court in the Texas redistricting case "for the reasons set forth" back when it granted emergency relief last December. Besides its novelty, the ruling also puts the lie to the effort to describe grants of emergency relief as "interim":
223. The Revealing Summary Rev...
223. The Revealing Summary Reversal in LULAC
Monday's one-paragraph order in the Texas redistricting case is both a procedural anomaly and a sharp rejoinder to those who still use the "interim" label to refer to the emergency docket.Steve Vladeck (One First)
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in reply to Steve Vladeck • • •I don't think you're reading this correctly.
Sounds like the Court already knows how its redistricting rulings are going to come out, it just hasn't issued them yet, so it's simply avoiding the harms that would be caused by mere timing.
It's not about precedent. It's simply practicality.