The Supreme Court ruled Thursday to sustain the Voting Rights Act’s protection against attempts to dilute the voting power of minorities, dismissing Alabama’s attempt to create a standard that would make it nearly impossible to challenge such gerrymanders in the future.
5-4?
That will get relitigated on some slim new premise as soon as the court is tipped further conservative.
Because OF COURSE Thomas dissented.
It’s almost as if they’re handlers don’t want TDIFFG to win, again.
Maybe… Too early to tell if this is a fluke or beginning of a trend, such as happened to the Court after FDR’s failed attempt to pack it.
Every so often, the court in its majesty and PR-sensitivity needs to throw a bone to the non-MAGA voters. Keep 'em quiet, to keep the Lefties at home instead of rushing to the polls like they did when Roe was overturned.
And now, some dawgs:
I guess it’s testament to recent years that this makes me fear they’re buttering us up for something far worse. Because certainly mere reason hasn’t played a role in a long time.
The Roberts Court isn’t turning over a new leaf. They are just as hostile to democracy as ever. Whatever their reasons for turning down Alabama’s fascist fig leaf, it has nothing to do with a commitment to democracy, equality, or the franchise.
And I doubt this was a PR move. Roberts and his pals know they are invincible as long as the Dems lack 60 impeachment votes in the Senate, and the 2024 Senate map looks terrible for Dems.
Roberts believes he has the rest of his very long life to meticulously entrench rule by a single, corrupt party, and that nothing can stop him. And he’s probably right.
This ruling contradicts the Court sending the voting rights case for North Carlina back.
So, the usual suspects thought Alabama’s impossible Catch-22 was just fine and it took Rapey McBeerface to actually save what’s left of the VRA. This and his opinion in the most recent attempt to gut the ACA that (paraphrasing) words actually mean things is quite the shocker.
I wouldn’t disagree with this. But we should not underestimate the power of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s arguments last month–and the degree to which they put Roberts on the hot seat. If we discount that potential impact, we disrespect Jackson
I’m suspicious of the conservative justices’ motives but dang it, I’ll take this W and keep hoping we’ll hold on to some voting rights in this country.
There’s some self-loathing going on here.
Thomas is still pretending that he is really a white man who just has a real good tan. He is as bigoted against black people as any good ole boy from Alabama. I think that, like Donnie the Fat Orange Crook, he can see the writing on the wall that he just might lose that cushy job that he thought he had sewed up for life.
Do you think Roberts is finally hearing that his legacy is going straight down the tubes, and it is time for him to act like a Judge instead of a patsy for the rightwing.
I do not quite know what to make of Kavanaugh other than he thinks he has a shot at becoming Chief Justice if he stops acting like a Frat Boy, and tries to actually think things through.
Dang! I really hate autocorrect!
Roberts desperate to bail out SCOTUS’ underwater approval ratings.
I’ve always felt that way about Thomas. He benefited from Affirmative Action, and hates that fact.
A Stopped clock, etc, etc
You expected consistency from this court?
She does seem to be a force to be reckoned with! So far, I really like her.
Jackson is brilliant and smarter than cagey Roberts. Bad publicity getting to him? America is on to the disguised manipulation of his previous decisions chipping away at out voting rights. Can’t take our eyes off Roberts.
