I totally agree.
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Having read the decision and the utterly bad faith opinion of Alito (I mean this guy cited the GOP’s election fraud in NC-09 in 2018 as evidence to support the AZ laws on vote gathering), I think it’s much clearer that S1 is a far better bet than the John Lewis VRAA. If the Dems passed the John Lewis VRAA this SCOTUS would limit its scope just as it has the VRA. They’re a bad faith group that isn’t going to be dictated to by Congress no matter how clear Congress’ intent.
S1, however, derives its legal authority from the Constitution which permits the Federal government to regulate federal elections. It doesn’t rely on civil rights statutes. It prescribes standard rules for all states on EV/VBM, voter caging, eligibility and access requirements. I don’t see how SCOTUS gets at much of S1. Pass that and end the GOP charade on voting rights.
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And you think that minor roadblock is going to last exactly how many nanoseconds before some “clever” justice or clerk figures out a different way to read the constitution which magically allows them to declare S1 unconstitutional?
The Democratic Majority needs to start operating like a Majority. If the minority party has this much power Democrats are going about everything wrong. That’s just a simple observation but it doesn’t make any sense that the GQP has this much power over everyone else. The ONLY reason they’re getting away with anything is because we’re allowing them to.
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Agreed. But it has to be part of the Dems’ national platform for the '22 midterms–and at the heart of the agenda for the next Congress if the Dems manage to prevail in '22. “Prevail” means protecting the current thin Dem majority in the House and adding several more Senate seats, so as to get around roadblocks by Manchin and Sinema.
Yes, a heavy lift, especially because we’ll be up against reshuffling representation in the House, gerrymandering, and now Supremo-sanctioned tampering with free elections. Plus the traditional pattern of the presidential party losing seats in the midterms and the fall-off of participation by voters in the Dems’ constituencies.
But our democracy is at stake (that must be the message in a nationalized election campaign), and we must put in a super-maximum effort. Otherwise…
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Yes disappointing. So you need to have new laws that erase the disappointment, so you vote for people who promise to do something about it. Those people then control most of the government and…fail.