The US has gone from unanimous reauthorization of the 1965 Voting Rights Act to eviscerating it.

[HomerJS]

SCOTUS ruled just because new laws disproportionately effect minorities it doesn't violate the 65 VRA. Everyone know how close these races are and if you can shave off a few 1/10s of a percentage it's the difference between winning and losing. The VRA kept a close eye on states with racist histories to ensure changes don't have disparate effect on minorities.

The country continues to slide backwards.

Supreme Court upholds restrictive Arizona voting laws in test of Voting Rights Act (nbcnews.com)

 

[theeedude]

Democrats need to be ready to
1. Pack the Court
2. Ignore the Court if it declares packing unconstitutional
3. Restore the VRA

 

[hal2kilo]

Good old dependable Alito.

 

[Sunburn74]

Good old dependable Alito.

Yeah. I love how he argued that it doesn't matter what Congress wrote in the law but what they intend, a complete turning away from their constitutional literism view when it suits them. Honestly I think it's time to pack the court.

 

[hal2kilo]

Kill the fillibuster, and pass HR1 Alito says we need it.

 

[brycejones]

Yeah. I love how he argued that it doesn't matter what Congress wrote in the law but what they intend, a complete turning away from their constitutional literism view when it suits them. Honestly I think it's time to pack the court.

Strict constructionalism is a lie. Scalia proved that years ago.

 

[hal2kilo]

I wish they wouldn't keep proving over and over again, that they are just pro business politicians in robes.

 

[K1052]

Good old dependable Alito.

Easily the worst SCOTUS appointment in the last several decades.

 

[Aikouka]

Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito said the law requires "equal openness" to the voting process. "Mere inconvenience cannot be enough to demonstrate a violation" of the law, he wrote.

How about a bunch of measures with each individually amounting to a "mere inconvenience" being packaged together?

 

[HomerJS]

Alito would have argued the poll tax is valid because everyone had to pay it. Ignoring the obvious

 

[theeedude]

Remember this day when GOP Court makes a sad face and asks for civility when this backfires down the road. Don't believe their crocodile tears.

 

[imported_tajmahal]

This ruling pretty much shuts down the faux partisan DoJ "investigation" of Georgia's reasonable and moderate new voting laws. Shut it down. It's a good thing.

 

[brycejones]

Alito would have argued the poll tax is valid because everyone had to pay it. Ignoring the obvious

So much this.

 

[sandorski]

This is necessary to "MAGA".

 

[kage69]

Scary shit. At this rate there won't be much America left if Team Treason continues to get it's way.

The court that Dark Money built and packed needs to be saved by additional Justices, ones fit for the bench.

Get on it Biden. Time is running out.

 

[Ajay]

Democrats need to be ready to
1. Pack the Court
2. Ignore the Court if it declares packing unconstitutional
3. Restore the VRA

So, you're rooting for a constitutional crisis? People will lose their f*cking minds over this.

 

[Sunburn74]

So, you're rooting for a constitutional crisis? People will lose their f*cking minds over this.

I don't think it'll cause a constitutional crisis. It's legal and the SCOTUS size has changed over time.

 

[brycejones]

So, you're rooting for a constitutional crisis? People will lose their f*cking minds over this.

I believe it’s a false assumption they are same to begin with.

 

[Ajay]

I don't think it'll cause a constitutional crisis. It's legal and the SCOTUS size has changed over time.

Yes, but I don't think times were as politically charged as today.

I believe it’s a false assumption they are same to begin with.

Missed your point, sorry. Mind explaining it to me?

 

[theeedude]

So, you're rooting for a constitutional crisis? People will lose their f*cking minds over this.

We are already in one. Without the right to vote, the Constitution is a joke.
Congress has a Constitutional right to set the size of the Court, and has exercised that right previously. If the Court usurps that right, then they will be the one starting a Constitutional crisis, and it will be on the other branches of government to finish it.

 

[theeedude]

Yes, but I don't think times were as politically charged as today.

So what? Who politicized the court? GOP. And to what purpose are they using its politicization? Making a farce out of the American democracy where politicians decide who gets to vote.

 

[Thump553]

Easily the worst SCOTUS appointment in the last several decades.

Clarence Thomas was appointed in 1991 (replacing Thugood Marshall, no less). I'd totally disagree with your statement if you count that as within several decades.

 

[MrSquished]

I was hearing this on NPR on the way home from work. They were quoting Alito - something like even if there is disparity in voting does not make it unequal or something like that. Isn't that the definition of inequality?

 

[ivwshane]

I was hearing this on NPR on the way home from work. They were quoting Alito - something like even if there is disparity in voting does not make it unequal or something like that. Isn't that the definition of inequality?

Yep. If the voting restriction laws have good intentions it doesn't matter if they negatively impact certain groups of people. So a voter fraud law, that is meant to combat voter fraud that doesn't exist, just so happens to negatively impact the minority population of that state, well that's ok.

So yeah the whole point of the voting rights act was to combat misconduct states were committing to negatively impact black voters via laws that on their face looked reasonable.

 

[HomerJS]

This ruling pretty much shuts down the faux partisan DoJ "investigation" of Georgia's reasonable and moderate new voting laws. Shut it down. It's a good thing.

You mean the new law based on a lie? I guess that makes it reasonable