In his majority opinion upholding two Arizona voting restrictions Thursday, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito laid out several “guideposts” as he made his way toward the conclusion that the restrictions did not violate the Voting Rights Act.
We need to expand the supreme court asap. The handpicked by fascists majority will oversee the destruction of our democracy if we don’t.
We need to pass voting protections at the Federal level. Sorely. C’mon Manchin, Sinema . . .
Looks pretty sickly in that photo… Maybe he’ll go see RBG and we can get a seat back?
The Heritage Foundation nominated, falsely and/or unfairly confirmed insurgents in our SCOTUS are carrying out their mission as planned when Reagan still had a brain.
Alito, like Clarence Thomas, forgets that the neoConfederate forces they so willingly represent today not so long ago considered Southern Italians to be effectively equivalent to black folks; i.e., not advanced enough to warrant the perks and privileges of the pure whites. That these two have sold out to their overseers is pathetic and deplorable … just like she said.
Alito is an errand boy for grocery clerks, collecting a bill.
Probably the only law that would fail the Alito test would be “White people can vote in person or by absentee for 30 days before election day; everyone else must vote in person between 11:00 a.m. and noon on election day.”
Because that’s 55 minutes more than he believes is constitutional.
He’d still cite state interests in having Republican leadership at the helm and go about his day.
This decision makes passage of HR1/S1 immediately. Stop letting Mitch McConnell hold our democratic system hostage.
Justice Alito . . . . . strict originalist . . . . my ass!
“it leads to an approach that is inconsistent with robust protection against discrimination.”
Feature, not a bug. They’ve literally been itching to do this for decades. It is literally part of their End Game strategy. And you can consider it just another element of what makes widespread violence in this country inevitable.
"“most voter suppression laws are challenged under First, 14th and 15th Amendments,” not the VRA. "
First they came for the VRA…
The best hope is that far-right and Republican voters may be caught up in the traps set to prevent progressives and moderates from voting.
So, as long as people like TFG keep challenging the validity of elections, then people’s faith in elections will continue to be damaged, and the GOP can continue to make voting more and more difficult for people they deem likely to vote against the GOP, and the more people vote against the GOP, the more they can claim that the election is invalid and they can continue to make voting more difficult, and…
He is. Women and black folks have zero right to vote in the constitution. He’s just trying to get us back to the founders’ intent
Fine by me, he’d have to change his name to Allen, but thanks to ‘23 n me’…
“It’s an effort to try to give the impression that they’re carefully thinking about the impact that these provisions might have, but to me, it’s ignoring the reality.”
I call it stacking the deck. The first hurdle to get over is saying there is a hurdle to get over.
I thought they already had those by default after Barr had RBG murdered in the hospital.