You can still petition. Nobody’s stopping you from writing your representatives in Washington or in your state capital and saying they should do things differently.
You just don’t have standing to sue and have a judge potentially tell your representatives that they’re breaking the law.
I agree that the ruling is ridiculous, and there’s unlikely to be any relief in my scenario above with people writing to their gerrymandered reps and saying, “Pretty please, don’t be an asshole.”
But I don’t see that the ruling is a 1A violation.
Congress, with a large bipartisan vote, passes the Voters Rights Act. President then signs it into law. Now a stacked, ideological court wipes all that away, just like that. I thought VRA became law the way laws are supposed to be made.
Which is it SCOTUS? Do laws get made by Congress? Or by royal decree by nine Supremes?
Nice to know that this court has unknowingly trashed Nino’s (sometimes) jurisprudence of “originalism”. One point on perspective; this decision - as crazy as it is - only applies in the 8th circuit, not the whole country.
“Taken at face value, these statements appear to create an open-and-shut case that there must be a way to privately enforce § 2,” they wrote. “If five Justices assume it, then it must be true. The problem, however, is that these were just background assumptions — mere dicta at most.”
My Maganese/Magalish is rusty but I think I have this translated:
We’re a pair of White Supremacist Judges who do not believe ANYBODY other then White People should be allowed to vote. As long as it is within our power we will maintain majority White rule even if it means issuing an “eyebrow-raising decision” so twisted you could bake it into a Challah.
And since we have life time appointments there is nothing you woke liberals can do about it.
With respect to the Supreme Court, tens of millions more people voted for Senators who voted against Trump’s nominees than those who voted for Senators who confirmed them in office.
Trumps nominees won because our government is structurally biased toward low population states, which are generally mostly rural and do not have many large urban areas, which are more likely to vote Democratic.
Here’s a really important point people need to pound on:
Nowhere in the Constitution does the phrase state’s rights occur. States do not have rights: states have powers. People, we citizens as individuals, have rights. The Constitution places limits on the powers of states to do various and sundry things. Even the Tenth Amendment (which grants Congress only those powers expressly delegated it by the Constitution) amends the language of the Articles of Confederation by eliminating mention of the rights of the states (and it also adds the people as another group to whom un-enumerated powers are reserved).
The Bill of Rights is clear throughout that people have rights, while governments (either state or Federal) have powers.
This is truly outrageous. It’s NOT the job of a lower court of appeals to differ with Supreme Ciurt precedent.
W.T.F.? This is pure political meddling: “Hey, this section of the Voting Rights Act is working too well under existing law. We have to shut this down.”
Two of the judges on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals panel — one appointed by Donald Trump and one by George W. Bush — ruled that individuals can no longer bring lawsuits under the VRA. They assert that only the U.S. attorney general can bring enforcement actions under the law.
Meh… voting is over rated/sn
Personally I vote… even local elections which sometimes have more local effect than do decisions from the goobers in DC.
I pay my taxes w/o public complaint as opposed to a certain fat slob running for president who thinks nothing of committing tax fraud as the case in NYC shows clearly.
Musk knows what he’s doing. World oligarchs are pushing world fascism for their own benefit & $ billions are making it happen through cheating, lying and deception. It keeps people distracted from the fact of climate disaster which is clearly going to get the majority of humanity and most macroscopic species destroyed without the awakening of a common desire & ability to reverse overpopulation via humane methods.
I am not, I am however suggesting that some of these mainly rural, low population states are ripe for a hostile takeover. And while normally I would abhor such behavior, in this fight I have zero trepidation.
In 1984, 751 people suffered food poisoning in The Dalles, Oregon, United States, due to the deliberate contamination of salad bars at ten local restaurants with Salmonella . A group of prominent followers of Rajneesh (later known as Osho) led by Ma Anand Sheela had hoped to incapacitate the voting population of the city so that their own candidates would win the 1984 Wasco County elections.[2]“
So the court is seemingly fine with a private right of action from organizations like the Alliance defending liberty when it comes to some aggrieved cake baker or legislators who sue abortion providers as well as women and medical professionals but when it comes to the cherished right to vote only the federal government can sue.
Remember, only judges that determine people have rights regardless of ideology are “activist.” Justices who take away rights that are mostly exercised by a very specific group of people are just doing good ole supremin’.
Hopefully, @txlawyer is right about SCOTUS saving this, though.
