Originally published at: In Supreme Court Land, Fixing Discrimination Against Black Voters Is The Real Racism - TPM – Talking Points Memo
A central grievance motivating today’s conservative legal movement — and the Republican Party more broadly — holds that any measure rectifying the country’s habitual discrimination against minorities actually discriminates against the in-group. This is why “black lives matter,” a call to recognize the disproportionate violence and death Black people suffer at the hands of the…
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The SCOTUS 6 ‘play the role’ of serious jurists. They are right wing political hacks. The 6 were nominated and confirmed by Republicans to serve the political interests of the Republican Party. They have given Trump power that is unhinged from the text or intent of law or the Constitution.
It’s why they overturn sound judgments of lower federal courts, where real jurists still serve. Soon universities will no longer need Constitutional scholars on staff, as the 6 relegate the Constitution to a curiosity …. fit for museums.
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Does Uncle (Clarence) Thomas agree?
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The luxury of such open ignorance by the Republican justices is numbing.
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Voting maps drawn by one political party to its advantage must be outlawed.
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It’s not ignorance. It’s racism and bigotry out in the open.
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Kate, superb writing and analysis. Thanks for saying the most important thing first, and for tying today’s Supreme Court hearing to the broader assault on racial justice in America. No one else bothered to make the effort. Kudos!
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Lemme guess – the Supremes wanna do their part in bringing back a racially segregated caste system?
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The Republican Party, and the 6 SCOTUS justices that pledge allegiance to it, are racist. All of the balderdash they spew is mere sophistry designed to disguise the fact that at the core of it all is unvarnished white supremacist bullshit. It is so fucking tiresome.
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If the Republican justices want to save time they can just construct their majority opinion with quotes from John Calhoun, Roger Taney, A.H. Stephens, Ben Tillman, and William Dunning. It’s not as if any of their reasoning will be any different.
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You’re all tired of hearing this, but I repeat: the districted land-based, one man per district, first past the post system of electing representatives has got to go. Larger “districts” (maybe states) with proportional representation. What “proportions” do we want?
- Do people vote their preferred political party, with half the simps in the country still proclaiming “I vote the man, not the party!”?
- Do people vote for their mythical, nonexistent, artificial, and these days much-blended “race”? Or for some “selected” race? Either one sounds just wrong.
- Or how about for their gender-sex? Or which gender-sex they want to see in office? That seems even less sensible.
In many civilized countries, the voter picks their Party. One and done. Even “Instant Runoff” counting is relatively easy that way.
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