Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan had a fiery dissent to the Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to allow GOP-friendly voting maps in Texas for next year’s midterms.

The ruling reversed a lower court decision calling Republican legislators’ moves to appease Donald Trump’s desire for more seats in Congress racial gerrymandering.

Kagan wrote that the court was not giving the district court’s ruling fair consideration.

“We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision,” Kagan, an appointee of Barack Obama, argued.

“That is why we are supposed to use a clear-error standard of review—why we are supposed to uphold the District Court’s decision that race-based line-drawing occurred (even if we would have ruled differe

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