The Supreme Court is poised to kill most of what is good for the people in favor of political and personal interests. This is just 1 item on a long to do list.
Did we cross some sort of peak in history, and now everything is happening in reverse? Nazis came back. Then women started becoming second class citizens. Now we’re going back to Jim Crow. With private prisons, we’re bringing slavery back. Wtf is going on. At this rate, we will be genociding the Native Americans again by the end of the decade
They’ll kill it, and then pat themselves on the back while billionaires fly them on private jets to ski trips.
The current Court is corrupt, hateful, incompetent, and anti-American…just like the party that owns them…and the people who own that party.
Oh. At first I read that headline backwards.
> …when Congress amended the Voting Rights Act in 1982, both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees said that “it is intended that citizens have a private cause of action to enforce their rights under Section 2.” Judge Stras dismissed that argument, writing, “There are many reasons to doubt legislative history as an interpretive tool,”…
I guess we now know that Stras has also been on some field trips with billionaires.
Neither the mainstream media nor the “alternative” media are covering this story. They all obsess about every little detail of Trumps’ trials and meanwhile this is happening.
So is that the point we stop listening to the Supreme Court which apparently has no checks and balances?
Maybe we should be poised to kill the Supreme Court, at this point 🤦♂️
For legal reasons, this is /s 😑
Trashy AF
America. Land of the free. Lol
It will be hard to move out of the legalistic stages of fascism when the populace has voting rights.
I will forever be livid at the left wing idiots in swing states who got cute and holier than thou by voting for Jill Stein or writing in Bernie in 2016. This shit is surreal.
The Supreme Court only has powers because we the people allow them to. It’s time for an uprising.
When do we just start ignoring the supreme court altogether? They’ve proven over and over they are the “partisan hacks” they kept telling us they aren’t.
Lifetime republican but voted for Biden. Democrats need a valid pitch to the ordinary, average middle-class Joe and Jane. I see a ton of legislation for the good for society as a whole, but literally nothing in it for them. Fear isn’t going to cut it, where is the carrot?
File this under the chapter titled: The Fall of the United States of America.
And conservatives can’t stop masturbating to the thought of disenfranchising people.
Too bad there is literally nothing that anyone in power can do about it. Too bad we delivered the Presidency and both Houses of Congress to the Democrats in 2020, And there was no way that they could protect voters’ rights at all. Not one single way. They couldn’t do a single thing about it.
If Democratic politicians lose power in 2024, it is not the fault of the voters who were systematically deprived of the right to vote, it is the fault of the politicians who cared so little for their jobs that they could not fight for them.
If Trump wins in 2024, he has made it crystal clear that he will imprison his political enemies, he’s even named the Democrats he will imprison. And those very democrats can’t even get on TV or social media to sound the alarms about losing their liberty. They can’t even work to get bipartisan unity on a bill to prevent themselves from being arrested if Trump gets into power.
The voters cannot care more about their lives and liberty than they do. It is up to the politicians to pass laws. The voters can’t do it. If Democrats couldn’t get it done in 2020, there is no guarantee that they can get anything done in 2024, or 2028. They will always have excuses, they will always have obstructionist members, They will always have 80-year-old leaders who lean too far to the right to allow climate change legislation, or healthcare legislation to pass.
So, whatevs
We complain that congress never passes any laws to address anything, but even when they do, the “supreme” court sitting on their thrones can just knock it down.
I have a strange feeling that this may not turn out how the Plaintiffs expects it to.
If the Supreme Court kills the Voting Rights Act (which I don’t believe they will), that means the DOJ is the only one who can bring forth a suit. Which in turns means that the DOJ is obligated to create an entirely new department that is dedicated strictly to voting rights enforcement and things like say, oh, I don’t know, redistricting and voter fraud.
The GOP might actually be the dog who catches the car again just like overturning Roe v. Wade.
The Advisory Opinions podcast covered this last week. Even though the court might rule that the voting rights act might not include a private cause of action, there is still a general private cause of action under US Code section 1983. To quote from ScotusBlog: “Section 1983 provides a cause of action against any person acting under color of state law who deprives a person of ‘rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws’ of the United States.”
As the VRA is unquestionably a “law of the United States” and it is “persons acting under color of state law” who are most likely to infringe somebody’s right to vote, there is unlikely to be any impact regardless of how this is ruled.
Remember folks, this is a long con. By forcing only the DoJ into fighting for our individual right to vote, they’re limiting the power to an organization they plan to gut and destroy which means we lose all protections to our right to vote.
We are frogs in a pot of slowly boiling water right now.
“Only those in power can decide who’s been disenfranchised” basically. Makes sense
The Supreme Court is an unelected legislative branch that happens to believe in jacking off billionaires and vacation Bible school as a form of government.
When are we gonna all just ignore this clownshow?
I mean why not? That’s what they were placed there to do. Take rights away from the majority of people.
Make the 14th Amendment Radical Again !
The idea that the VRA is unconstitutional would be like saying that all private gun ownership is unconstitutional. Thats how outside the constitution, many Federal courts and SCOTUS have gone to defend the GOP’s political advantages. It would be like letting a person under 35 who wasn’t born in the US become President. It’s extremist counter-textualism
15A
> Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
> **Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.[2]
It’s simply not up to any court to decide “racism is over so we can ignore 13A, 14A and 15A now” as the Robert’s Court and the 8th and 5th Circuits have tried to do.
Congress should not only pass updated VRA laws but explicitly strip the courts of the jurisdiction to decide anything beyond individual trial cases of those laws.
The course of empires has repeated countless times over literal millenia… Seems like hubris to think we were somehow exempt… Seems like our time
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The Supreme Court is poised to kill most of what is good for the people in favor of political and personal interests. This is just 1 item on a long to do list.
Did we cross some sort of peak in history, and now everything is happening in reverse? Nazis came back. Then women started becoming second class citizens. Now we’re going back to Jim Crow. With private prisons, we’re bringing slavery back. Wtf is going on. At this rate, we will be genociding the Native Americans again by the end of the decade
They’ll kill it, and then pat themselves on the back while billionaires fly them on private jets to ski trips.
The current Court is corrupt, hateful, incompetent, and anti-American…just like the party that owns them…and the people who own that party.
Oh. At first I read that headline backwards.
> …when Congress amended the Voting Rights Act in 1982, both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees said that “it is intended that citizens have a private cause of action to enforce their rights under Section 2.” Judge Stras dismissed that argument, writing, “There are many reasons to doubt legislative history as an interpretive tool,”…
I guess we now know that Stras has also been on some field trips with billionaires.
Neither the mainstream media nor the “alternative” media are covering this story. They all obsess about every little detail of Trumps’ trials and meanwhile this is happening.
So is that the point we stop listening to the Supreme Court which apparently has no checks and balances?
Maybe we should be poised to kill the Supreme Court, at this point 🤦♂️
For legal reasons, this is /s 😑
Trashy AF
America. Land of the free. Lol
It will be hard to move out of the legalistic stages of fascism when the populace has voting rights.
I will forever be livid at the left wing idiots in swing states who got cute and holier than thou by voting for Jill Stein or writing in Bernie in 2016. This shit is surreal.
The Supreme Court only has powers because we the people allow them to. It’s time for an uprising.
When do we just start ignoring the supreme court altogether? They’ve proven over and over they are the “partisan hacks” they kept telling us they aren’t.
Lifetime republican but voted for Biden. Democrats need a valid pitch to the ordinary, average middle-class Joe and Jane. I see a ton of legislation for the good for society as a whole, but literally nothing in it for them. Fear isn’t going to cut it, where is the carrot?
File this under the chapter titled: The Fall of the United States of America.
And conservatives can’t stop masturbating to the thought of disenfranchising people.
Too bad there is literally nothing that anyone in power can do about it. Too bad we delivered the Presidency and both Houses of Congress to the Democrats in 2020, And there was no way that they could protect voters’ rights at all. Not one single way. They couldn’t do a single thing about it.
If Democratic politicians lose power in 2024, it is not the fault of the voters who were systematically deprived of the right to vote, it is the fault of the politicians who cared so little for their jobs that they could not fight for them.
If Trump wins in 2024, he has made it crystal clear that he will imprison his political enemies, he’s even named the Democrats he will imprison. And those very democrats can’t even get on TV or social media to sound the alarms about losing their liberty. They can’t even work to get bipartisan unity on a bill to prevent themselves from being arrested if Trump gets into power.
The voters cannot care more about their lives and liberty than they do. It is up to the politicians to pass laws. The voters can’t do it. If Democrats couldn’t get it done in 2020, there is no guarantee that they can get anything done in 2024, or 2028. They will always have excuses, they will always have obstructionist members, They will always have 80-year-old leaders who lean too far to the right to allow climate change legislation, or healthcare legislation to pass.
So, whatevs
We complain that congress never passes any laws to address anything, but even when they do, the “supreme” court sitting on their thrones can just knock it down.
I have a strange feeling that this may not turn out how the Plaintiffs expects it to.
If the Supreme Court kills the Voting Rights Act (which I don’t believe they will), that means the DOJ is the only one who can bring forth a suit. Which in turns means that the DOJ is obligated to create an entirely new department that is dedicated strictly to voting rights enforcement and things like say, oh, I don’t know, redistricting and voter fraud.
The GOP might actually be the dog who catches the car again just like overturning Roe v. Wade.
The Advisory Opinions podcast covered this last week. Even though the court might rule that the voting rights act might not include a private cause of action, there is still a general private cause of action under US Code section 1983. To quote from ScotusBlog: “Section 1983 provides a cause of action against any person acting under color of state law who deprives a person of ‘rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws’ of the United States.”
As the VRA is unquestionably a “law of the United States” and it is “persons acting under color of state law” who are most likely to infringe somebody’s right to vote, there is unlikely to be any impact regardless of how this is ruled.
Remember folks, this is a long con. By forcing only the DoJ into fighting for our individual right to vote, they’re limiting the power to an organization they plan to gut and destroy which means we lose all protections to our right to vote.
We are frogs in a pot of slowly boiling water right now.
“Only those in power can decide who’s been disenfranchised” basically. Makes sense
The Supreme Court is an unelected legislative branch that happens to believe in jacking off billionaires and vacation Bible school as a form of government.
When are we gonna all just ignore this clownshow?
I mean why not? That’s what they were placed there to do. Take rights away from the majority of people.
Make the 14th Amendment Radical Again !
The idea that the VRA is unconstitutional would be like saying that all private gun ownership is unconstitutional. Thats how outside the constitution, many Federal courts and SCOTUS have gone to defend the GOP’s political advantages. It would be like letting a person under 35 who wasn’t born in the US become President. It’s extremist counter-textualism
15A
> Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
> **Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.[2]
It’s simply not up to any court to decide “racism is over so we can ignore 13A, 14A and 15A now” as the Robert’s Court and the 8th and 5th Circuits have tried to do.
Congress should not only pass updated VRA laws but explicitly strip the courts of the jurisdiction to decide anything beyond individual trial cases of those laws.
The course of empires has repeated countless times over literal millenia… Seems like hubris to think we were somehow exempt… Seems like our time