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From Mother Jones:
That is precisely what the Supreme Court did last week. But the news is too staggering to hide for long: The Republican-appointed justices have decided it is time to fully destroy the 1965 Voting Rights Act."
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I have little doubt that the assertion is correct. In a series of decisions they have been moving toward one-party rule by the GOP, elimination of minority rights entirely, and gutting of the equal protection guarantee of the 14th Amendment. We're in the midst of the final maneuvers.
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"Under the Roberts Court, equal protection has become a sword to wield against programs, policies, and laws intended to create an equal system. The lingering Louisiana case now presents the Republican justices an opportunity to hollow out one of the few remaining protections of the VRA, the requirement of minority-majority districts, under this twisted reasoning."
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"There are different ways to rig an election. Trump’s attempted coup in 2020 was one of them. This is another. Neither is compatible with multiracial democracy as we have known for the last 60 years."
The Supreme Court Prepares to End Voting Rights as We Know Them
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you want to hide what you are doing in Washington, announce it on a Friday evening in the heat of August. Better yet, in place of clarity, reference some pages in another document, so that people have to track that down and read it in order to grasp what you are telling them.That is precisely what the Supreme Court did last week. But the news is too staggering to hide for long: The Republican-appointed justices have decided it is time to fully destroy the 1965 Voting Rights Act."
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I have little doubt that the assertion is correct. In a series of decisions they have been moving toward one-party rule by the GOP, elimination of minority rights entirely, and gutting of the equal protection guarantee of the 14th Amendment. We're in the midst of the final maneuvers.
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"Under the Roberts Court, equal protection has become a sword to wield against programs, policies, and laws intended to create an equal system. The lingering Louisiana case now presents the Republican justices an opportunity to hollow out one of the few remaining protections of the VRA, the requirement of minority-majority districts, under this twisted reasoning."
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"There are different ways to rig an election. Trump’s attempted coup in 2020 was one of them. This is another. Neither is compatible with multiracial democracy as we have known for the last 60 years."