Justice Kagan Rips SCOTUS For Gutting Voting Rights Act In Dour Dissent

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The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision Wednesday to permit states to redraw voting districts in such a manner as to decrease minority representation could well set the U.S. back to before the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965.

So warned Justice Elena Kagan in a dour dissent in Louisiana v. Callais, offering a long and dispiriting look at all the ways states circumvented the 15th Amendment from its ratification in 1870 until at least 1965.

Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor joined Kagan in the dissent.

The 15th Amendment guaranteed racial equality in voting, yet Kagan noted that in the century that followed, for practical purposes, it did almost nothing of the sort.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/justice-kagan-rips-scotus-gutting-161405673.html

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1. Elect only Democrats willing to kill the filibuster and expand the court

There is no other path to undoing the damage of the Trump era and by the Roberts court.

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4. That's a great plan.

Hope it jibes with the reality-based world. The reality I see leaves me less confident than you.

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5. It's up to the voters to elect enough courageous Dems to make it so. Nt

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6. We also have to work to protect our elections

locally. New York has a few laws we need to pass. You may not believe it, but Trump, backed by Republicans at state and local levels, are planning unseemly shit to deprive people of their vote. One NY law would prevent any ol’ dipshit from challenging votes, like happened in 2024 at Stony Brook University. Reportedly, that prevented a lot of students from voting. Not everything is a CT.

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2. The SC 6 are nothing more than low vibration bigots

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3. And Clarence Thomas is not hiding under a rock.

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7. The 15th Amendment in what used to be America...

She left that part out.

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8. We need 13 justices!

If we can do it.