The Supreme Court hears arguments in Merrill v. Milligan Tuesday, a redistricting case that will give the conservatives an opportunity to gut the Voting Rights Act even more thoroughly.
Is it fair to say, ‘and so it begins…’?
Perhaps the headline should read:
Why bother? 6-3, done and dusted.
Save money, time and resources if we just skip the dog-and-pony show.
Sorta hard to get excited by the hearing and oral arguments. We pretty much know already what is coming with this one. “But her emails. She gave speeches to Wall Street too.”
One possible bright spot to all of this is that, as Republicans continue to try to desperately stack the deck in their favor, it becomes more and more obvious to voters what they are doing. These clear attempts at cheating do eventually alienate most voters even though it often takes a lot longer than would seem reasonable for enough people to notice this.
California stands as a really good example of this. Prior to 1992, California was one of the most reliably red states in the US. It was a bastion of conservative ideology for decades but, once conservative ideas started becoming unpopular, the Republicans began trying to stack the deck in their favor in order to stay in power. This further alienated Californians to the point where, outside of the central valley and the North, it’s hard to find many Republicans anywhere in the state anymore.
It may take a few more years but all of these tricks the Republicans are using to stay in power nationally might very well have the same effect as it had in California-- they might shrink to a small minority with very little power for more than a generation as a result of their antics.
We can only hope.
Will the Council of Mullahs use this opportunity to perform a fascist stomp on our democracy? Why yes, I believe they will.
We need to make expanding scotus a high priority if we can retain our majorities in the House/Senate.
I’m not so sure the average voter is paying attention. I suppose we’ll see in a month’s time.
That’s the problem - we don’t have enough time for ‘eventually’. It’s almost already too late. Again, we’ll know in a month’s time.
And yet, this from the State that brought us Kevin McCarthy and so many other dysfunctional members of the House. Trust me, I understand we can’t wipe them all out, but the ones that remain are probably among the worst.
For more than just California, but most of the country.
If there were any more powerful incentives to vote…
But the pretending is important to “legitimacy.”
Shit, I’d give them more legitimacy if they were just honest, skipped the hearings, issued a one-liner “eat a bag of dog shit, you filthy peasants” decision and called it a day.
I have a hard time liking your comment. It’s too true and it’s not even noon.
I think they’re busy convincing themselves and their fascist fans that this is some sort of real, sober application of the law. “They used Latin and stuff, so shut up, lib!” You know, that sort of thing.
Perhaps Alito needs a primer on what SCOTUS is about. He’s not sitting on Alabama’s High Court. His rulings in that rancid case affect all of America so who gives a shit about there being enough Blacks in Alabama to make to merit 2 districts? Using Alabama’s criteria to set America in its place is horrid.
Like Cannon keeps stepping in to help Trump.
Corruption: It’s a Republican thing.
They are the nine Nazgul, there to rule over the mere mortals.
Anyone who thinks that SCOTUS exists to call balls and strikes regarding the Constitution and Law need only look at the entire history of SCOTUS to see that it’s a political wing and has been the whole time.
Where occasionally doing the right thing stands out precisely because it’s so rare.
SCOTUS conservatives just want every state in America to have the same educational standards, health care outcomes, and equitable governance that Alabama so proudly exemplifies.
Isn’t their motto, “At least we’re not Mississippi?”
(I can say that, having lived in MS.)
Yep. The thing is, Alabama is second to only Missisppi in all the worst things, except for the things in which Alabama’s own failures exceed even those of MS.
It’s like a race to the bottom, where the racing style is: Infinite Freefall.
Jackson is running down how the 14th Amendment was not passed in a race-neutral way — it was passed to undergird the rights of the newly-freed slaves.
“It’s not a race-blind remedy,” she says.
I couldn’t be happier with our newest Justice. The three court members with integrity are excellent jurists but sadly they seem to have no influence over the six fascist ideologues who’ve been installed to kill off democracy.