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

[Jaskalas]

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

Those who think a nation has already fallen, will act to hasten its demise.

 

[Ajay]

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.

Well, we just had an insurrection by members of the party formerly know as the GOP. Call me gun shy. Yes, the court ruling is a farce (at best). I honestly don’t know how to best work this out. Seems like a lose lose situation.

 

[K1052]

They're going to revisit Sullivan apparently too now because the ability of powerful people to ruin others for saying mean or unflattering things about power public figures is apparently too limited for conservative tastes. Something something cancel culture.

Let me take this opportunity to say I have it on good authority that Thomas and Gorsuch tag team goats while dressed as French maids.

In the long run this is going to be a terrible court that dramatically erodes individual rights and various social/civil protections because a bunch of retrograde Federalist Society dickheads insist they are treated unfairly.

 

[zinfamous]

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.

Why are you so illiterate?

 

[fskimospy]

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

Well to be fair the supreme court would be initiating the constitutional crisis by placing itself above any check or balance by the other two branches.

 

[Ajay]

Well to be fair the supreme court would be initiating the constitutional crisis by placing itself above any check or balance by the other two branches.

Yes, if in fact, they reject congress' increase in the number of SC Justices who are seated in the court.

 

[darkswordsman17]

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.

Speaking of...

The Supreme Court just made Citizens United even worse

It’s a great day for dark money.

www.vox.com

 

[hal2kilo]

They are on quite the roll. Hell, they basically legalized political bribery a couple years back. It's just among friends, you know. The SCOTUS seems hell bent on making themselves a useless anachronism, just to be ignored.

 

[HomerJS]

Speaking of...

The Supreme Court just made Citizens United even worse

It’s a great day for dark money.

www.vox.com

SCOTUS made it easier to flood the voting system with money at the same time made it harder to vote.

 

[Ajay]

They are on quite the roll. Hell, they basically legalized political bribery a couple years back. It's just among friends, you know. The SCOTUS seems hell bent on making themselves a useless anachronism, just to be ignored.

Political 'bribery' has, essentially, been legal for some time I thought. Didn't the court just make it legal for it to be opaque, rather than transparent. Less shell companies and shell non-profits that way.

 

[theeedude]

The Roberts court will end like the Taney court.

 

[theeedude]

Well, we just had an insurrection by members of the party formerly know as the GOP. Call me gun shy. Yes, the court ruling is a farce (at best). I honestly don’t know how to best work this out. Seems like a lose lose situation.

Packing the court is not a constitutional crisis by itself. If court creates one by trying to declare it unconstitutional, then it's on them. I am just saying Democrats need to be ready for it and ignore the court whining.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Well, we just had an insurrection by members of the party formerly know as the GOP. Call me gun shy. Yes, the court ruling is a farce (at best). I honestly don’t know how to best work this out. Seems like a lose lose situation.

At this point, I'm not seeing how GOP voters change much. Sure, this time is failed, there will be a next time. They're just getting warmed up.

 

[brycejones]

Why are you so illiterate?

Multiple TBIs from being too close to grenades going off.

 

[brycejones]

SCOTUS made it easier to flood the voting system with money at the same time made it harder to vote.

Citizens United - Limiting money is bad but we would be open to disclosure rules.

this latest ruling - Fuck your disclosure rules

What could possibly go wrong with unlimited, unregulated, undisclosed political speech in a democracy?

 

[K1052]

It should be quite evident to everybody now that even passing electoral reforms and more voting rights though congress is basically a waste of time without packing SCOTUS.

Roberts is simply hostile to voting rights legislation and will always find a reason to shitcan congress's attempts to improve things.

 

[Pohemi]

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.

Not in the slightest. Fuck off, troll clown.

 

[Matt390]

Well to be fair the supreme court would be initiating the constitutional crisis by placing itself above any check or balance by the other two branches.

The President would just tell them to eat a bag of dicks if they tried to do that. Jackson did something similar when they started acting all uppity.

 

[Matt390]

It should be quite evident to everybody now that even passing electoral reforms and more voting rights though congress is basically a waste of time without packing SCOTUS.

Roberts is simply hostile to voting rights legislation and will always find a reason to shitcan congress's attempts to improve things.

Roberts already said the Congress can weigh in on partisan gerrymandering. Unless America goes back to 1960 Jim Crow South, that's a much bigger problem for Democrats.

 

[K1052]

Roberts already said the Congress can weigh in on partisan gerrymandering. Unless America goes back to 1960 Jim Crow South, that's a much bigger problem for Democrats.

I think he said that it was beyond their purview, that the states should address it. If Congress passes law I think he'd definitely consider that within their purview.

 

[Matt390]

I think he said that it was beyond their purview, that the states should address it. If Congress passes law I think he'd definitely consider that within their purview.

That's not how declaring something non-judicable works.

 

[Moonbeam]

This is the secret to a life of thought untrammeled by a capacity to feel. When the mind knows not, the heart for the heart's repellent selfish motivations, coupled with a upbringing that praised selflessness, frees the mind to rationalize anything to protect the self from seeing itself as it really is. All of us fancy that the rosy self images we adopted as children to hide the shame of imagined transgressions, is the self that all others should conform to and adopt. Anything less and the fiction is threatened, the most unwelcome threat that there is.

Law schools and legal theories, think tanks, and money insure that there are such things as legal experts skilled in the manufacture of these fictions and the fiction is facilitated always by various honorific appellations.