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Gutting Out the Vote 2

The Washington Monthly’s Joshua Dounglas thinks the Supreme Supremacist Court is poised to take another whack at the Voting Rights Act of 1965. A snippet:

The first strike came in 2013 when the Court curtailed the act in Shelby County v. Holder. That case invalidated the portion of the act that determined which jurisdictions must seek preapproval for voting changes because they have a history of discrimination. Because of the Shelby County ruling, states and local governments with a record of racism are free to enact restrictive voting rules and unfair redistricting maps without meaningful oversight.

Then, just last year, the Court in Brnovich v. DNC made it much harder for plaintiffs to use the Voting Rights Act to fight election rules with a discriminatory effect on minority voters. Section 2 of the act is a nationwide provision barring discrimination in the voting process. T. . . .

The third case in this grim trio, Merrill v. Milligan, is now before the Court. It’s another Alabama case that could severely limit the act’s protections for minority voters during redistricting. It could even lead to the Court declaring Section 2 unconstitutional.

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September 29, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: "That Conversation about Race", Republican Hypocrisy |

2 comments

  1. Grung_e_Gene

    September 29, 2022 at 8:49 pm

    Alito is so mad people are losing the respect for Supremacist Court.

     
  2. Frank

    September 29, 2022 at 9:48 pm

    Yeah, well, if I’d been caught stealing a stop sign and dumping it the Deputy Sheriff’s front yard (because he was a jerk) when I was a teenager, I would have been mad too.

    But I would have still stolen the stop sign and dumped in the Deputy Sheriff’s front yard.

    I would have been mad about being caught out, and so is he mad about being caught out.

    (As an aside, said Deputy Sheriff took the stop sign back to the post, which was not far from his house, and nailed it back in place with roofing nails, so he found it back in his front yard a day later.)

    Not that this really happened or anything like that.

     
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