“While federal courts should not impose changes close to an election, states are free to decide for themselves whether last-minute changes to an election are in their best interests,” the order stated. The court’s liberals complained that the majority’s decision was racist in nature, when in fact, the court’s majority ruled last month that congressional districts drawn up primarily to benefit one race are unconstitutional. “Now the court issquarely faced with a record of the turmoil it has caused and the harm it has wrought,” Sotomayor wrote.
