To someone unfamiliar with the country’s recent redistricting history, Wednesday’s Supreme Court oral arguments must have sounded bizarre.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1470928
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1470928
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In a similar vein…
“Inside John Roberts’ Decades-Long Crusade Against the Voting Rights Act“
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/john-roberts-voting-rights-act-121222/
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Chief Justice Roberts’ arguments all seem to boil down to the “Stephen Colbert” mantra: I don’t see race. People tell me I’m white, and I believe them because police officers call me “sir.”
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If Rethugliklans can’t choose their voters they’ll never win any “elections.” Therefore the Rethugliklans on the SCOTUS must protect their fellow fascists’ “right” to select their own voters. Case closed.
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Waiting for the “Nothing to see here BAU crowd” to tell us yet again how Roberts “holds the court together,” “cares about his legacy” and pushes the right wing fascists “to the center.”
We’ll all wait for you.
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Not going to see a lot of those here.
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I can’t say I have heard anyone make those claims in a very LONG time, so it could be a very LONG wait…
Would some overweening support for Merrick Garland hold you in the meanwhile?
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Bureau of Aquatics Underwater?
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And BTW, Stephen is one of SC’s native sons.
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voters’ race — rather than party
Sweet.
One party is white supremacists. The other party is everybody else.
It’ll be much more efficient to simply nix Democrats out of every democratic process, while convincing yourself you’re not a racist.
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That aphorism he tossed off (which I despise enough for its triteness not to type here) in Shelby County is to me the best example of his obeisance to the white privilege machine.
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They are the architects of the end of America. Watching them flail here is going to be real good.
The GOP have drowned in their own successes. Unlimited untraceable money, supremacy of the snakehandlers, black people marginalized: The good old days.
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Back dat Ass Up?
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His whole argument for overturning the precedent with Shelby was absurd. The law as written allowed jurisdictions under preclearance to sue/petition to be removed from preclearance by demonstrating no evidence of discrimination over some specified period of time. So the law provided its own remedy for people who felt they were being mistreated by the law.
Roberts and Co. ignored that and eviscerated the Voting Rights Act anyway.
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Alito makes it pretty clear that his perception of the quality of a lower court’s reasoning is entirely about whether it reached the result he wants.
In one of my fantasy worlds he would have a road to damascus event and spend the rest of his (shortened) life trying vainly to do sufficient penance for all the lies he has championed.
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“To use racism for political gain is to be a racist”, Harry Truman.
The fact is “Partisanship” and “Race” are linked by American history and especially in the South. Everyone knows and understand this and it is really grotesque and dishonest for a majority of the Supreme Court to deny it.
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Meanwhile Biden refuses to loudly advocate for reform.
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So long as extreme gerrymandering helps the GOP lock in unrepresentative minority rule and thwarts the will of the people, the 6 SCOTUS right wingers won’t change a thing.
Today’s Supreme Court right wing supermajority should not be viewed as legitimate actors on most issues, but rather as a part of the Republican Party’s program to forcibly impose minority rule. They are not good faith actors.
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It looks like we’re going to have GOPee minority rule for a long time. Let’s hope our democracy survives it. Whoops, I forgot we’re not a democracy we’re a constitutional republic. Whatever the f*ck that means.
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