MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision Thursday blocked a lower court ruling allowing curbside voting in Alabama and waiving some absentee ballot requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Voter suppression in Alabammy?
I’m shocked!
I’m old enough to remember our sanctioning South Africa’s apartheid regime. And I may live long enough to see them sanction ours.
Another 5-4 partisan decision for the 1% Kangaroo Kourt…that is helping to keep “the Southern Strategy” spot on through voter suppression!
ICYMI:
As of Nov 2019, Robert’s Court has 73 5-4 partisan decisions.
Meanwhile…This is a probable scenario and the solution to stop this is for Dems to win big so that electoral votes cannot be overturned!
https://www.newsweek.com/how-trump-could-lose-election-still-remain-president-opinion-1513975
Electing Biden isn’t going to solve this problem. We have a rogue SCOTUS that is actively working against the best interests of the American people and against the right to vote in a representative Democracy. I don’t care how it’s done, it has to be fixed. This is not sustainable. Imagine global climate change mitigation programs stymied by a passive aggressive Supreme Court majority because “reasons” as the country suffers grave environmental and personal damage. We are a nation of men and women and the law should serve us as a collective, not just the rentier class.
The Constitution does not define the number of judges that can be on the Supreme Court. Biden can nominate 2 or more judges if he wants to.
This country is going to have to decide whether or not a minority is going to rule.
This minority certainly will not govern.
Unfortunately, I don’t think it’s Biden’s MO to put additional justices on the court. If we win the Senate and the house, we need to pass voting laws so that it does not have to go to the damn court. And I hope they realize this is very high priority.
Tell it…
After FDR tried to ‘pack the court’ due to numerous anti-Depression-fixing decisions there was a law passed fixing the number at nine.
However, ‘that’ law can be changed because it’s not an amendment.
Alabama will be irreparably harmed if citizens are allowed to vote.
SOMEHOW we are going to have to figure out how to take our judiciary back and get back to a more balanced government.
Essentially, we are under an occupation. By a minority. It is not as brutal as was the French in 1940-44.
Most of us can claim a shred of “continuity” in our lives…and before anyone starts saying “media” or “MSM”, they had better realize that the Fourth Estate is about all we have left.
It’s better than Resistance pamphlets that could get you killed for having, let alone reading.
Let’s use what we have.
Correct!
Biden can nominate eleventy-dozen judges if he wants to, but they can’t be confirmed to seats that Congress has not provided for via legislation and presidential signature (or an overridden veto).
But who are they suppressing? This would seem to discourage older voters especially from participating. Do they really think such voters lean more toward the Democrats than other age groups? Did they learn nothing from the debacle in Wisconsin?
Anna Kendrick. Now I’ll spend the rest of study hall writing “Mr. Anna Kendrick” over and over in my notebook.
I have no problem channeling a white girl when it fits the bill.
The Republican theory seems to include the assumption that reducing the total number of people who vote will favor them because their voters are more motivated. This is not an entirely crazy notion as Democrats seem generally more likely to skip an election, particularly in non-presidential election years.*
*2018 being a notable exception thank goodness.
NB: But then there is 2016; If "Did Not Vote" Had Been A Candidate In The 2016 US Presidential Election, It Would Have Won By a Landslide - Brilliant Maps
You contain multitudes. But man, when she starts bantering with Colbert there’s nobody more adorable on this earth. OMG OMG
I would tell you if you were lying, but in this case I cannot say that. She rocks the world.