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turbinetree

(27,719 posts)
Mon May 4, 2026, 03:07 PM Monday

Samuel Alito lied -- and the Deep South proved it

By Robert Reich- Commentary
Published May 4, 2026 2:46 PM ET

Friends,

When I learned what Samuel Alito and the other Republican appointees to the Supreme Court did to the Voting Rights Act last week, I thought of Mickey.

(Forgive me if I’ve already told you about him, but he was very important to me.)

https://www.rawstory.com/samuel-alito-2676848944/

A very good and timely article.............

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UpInArms

(55,278 posts)
2. RayGun was so effing evil
Mon May 4, 2026, 03:26 PM
Monday

and now we have this horrible maladministration because of so many of the things he started

On August 3, 1980, Ronald Reagan launched his presidential campaign with a rally at the Neshoba County Fair, only a few miles from where Cecil Ray Price had stopped Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman on that fateful night 16 years earlier. In defending “states’ rights” that day, Reagan, the cheerful “morning in America” candidate, was sending a dark dog-whistle to racist bullies, telling them he was on their side.

turbinetree

(27,719 posts)
3. Yep.........he was hidden racist fascist..........he started the culmination of destroying the
Mon May 4, 2026, 05:05 PM
Monday

middle class..............literally.........and then for him to go down to Philadelphia Mississippi......and start his racist agenda.............

GreenWave

(12,765 posts)
4. But the story hid Trump's nominating deranged RW federal judges who can't...
Mon May 4, 2026, 05:15 PM
Monday

even say Biden won. Clearly they were coached. No original thought, just puppets

turbinetree

(27,719 posts)
5. And to think they were confirmed and during the process outright lied..........
Mon May 4, 2026, 05:21 PM
Monday

and if i were to do this in a court or hearing I would get at least five years...............the Federalist Society and Judicial Watch are just something else behind the scene.............

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