The Supreme Court’s 6-3 conservative majority ruled Thursday that two restrictive voting policies in Arizona did not violate the Voting Rights Act. The majority opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito laid out the “guideposts” for courts to consider in deciding whether a state’s election rules have the effect of discriminating against minority voters.
Fuck…Fuck…Fuck. The irony that a court that can only vote this way because of Who?'s evil appointments made this decision on the same day that Who?'s organization is indicted.
AND…they struck down a California Law that required the disclosure of large donors to charities.
Oh, Joe Manchin…time to get your ass behind S1. Stop this shit about the filibuster.
But her emails…
SCOTUS: Proudly dismantling American democracy one decision at a time.™
So, apparently, the Constitution does NOT protect the vote.
Interesting interpretation from an Originalist court.
The 50 Republican senators represent 43.6% of the U.S. population. And that number is declining.
The Supreme Court represents a minority of the population. With gerrymandering, the House may be taken over by Republicans and represent a minority of the population.
The majority of Americans are being screwed.
How many of them care? I know there are calls for protests, and I’ve even seen some scheduled.
Civil rights leaders announce new March on Washington to demand voting rights reform - CNN
But will it make a difference?
It’s a perfectly consistent ruling from these asshole fascists. The constitution originally gave the vote exclusively to white male landowners. That’s where this is headed, even that clown Thomas s on board with that.
And the fuckery of Jill Stein and the Bros. in 2016.
Dems must respond decisively. Three things: Pass a strong voting rights act NOW; expand the Court to 15, NOW; and D.C statehood, NOW. No more bringing knives to the gunfight.
Of course it won’ Especially when you have a bunch of fascists cosplaying a new organization and sniffing, "Oh look more left wing radicals looking for more handouts and “rights.” The well is poisoned and 74MM Americans are okay with it.
Every one of these “reforms” will be upheld. Until people get off their asses and VOTE, nothing will change. Gaining additional Senate seats is DOABLE. So aggravating.
None of this will happen. The dems have no stomach for civil war (whether hot or cold).
So in Sinema’s state, they are upholding this shit. She’s good with it, I guess.
Ugh, Alito wrote the opinion.
Of course they did… John Roberts’ raison d’etre is voter suppression.
Balls and Strikes my ass.
That’s a green light for Trump to run for President in 2024.
What did folks expect? Voting restrictions are essential if the GOP is to survive. The folks that said OK to this are all GOP’ers. This was a ruling for the Republican Party not the USA.
Recall Karl Rove said the “permanent Republican majority” will be won at the state level. All Republican state legislature now will legalize all imaginary restrictions short of a poll tax. It’ll be race to the bottom for those states