The Supreme Court Prepares to End Voting Rights As We Know It
The Supreme Court Prepares to End Voting Rights As We Know It
The Supreme Court Prepares to End Voting Rights As We Know It
The Supreme Court Prepares to End Voting Rights As We Know It
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“Congress passed the Voting Rights Act to enforce the vision of equality enacted that animated the 14th and 15th Amendments. Indeed, the VRA was enacted under Congress’ express authority to use legislation to enforce the equal protection and voting rights guarantees of the post-Civil War amendments to the Constitution.”
” Now, Republican lawyers are attacking the law, arguing that equal treatment of minority voters is actually discrimination against white voters. The amendments that ushered in a [Second Founding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Founding) of political equality are being reinterpreted to resurrect white supremacy.”
“The Supreme Court’s assault on democracy and President Donald Trump’s are tightly intertwined. On Sunday, Democrats in the Texas House [fled their state](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/texas-democrats-flee-state-trump-rig-midtersm-abbott/) in order to block the Republican majority’s plans to redraw its Congressional map to create five new GOP seats in Congress—and help Republicans hold the House after the 2026 midterms.
“The plan came down from Washington; supported by Trump and given a veneer of respectability by a legally-ludicrous DOJ letter to Texas leaders [alleging](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/texas-gerrymandering-redistricting-maps-donald-trump/) five seats held by Black and Latino representatives are illegal racial gerrymanders and [requesting](https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/01/texas-congressional-redistricting-doj-coalition-districts/) they redraw the map. Assuming new lines are enacted, a state with only a small majority of Republican voters will have boldly pushed through a map that gives three-quarters of its congressional seats to the GOP.”
“Trump may be behind this plan, but it was the Supreme Court that made such brazen partisan gerrymandering possible. In 2019’s *Rucho v. Common Cause*, a 5-4 GOP majority announced federal courts could not hear challenges to partisan gerrymandering claims. Texas, and any other state that doesn’t have its own constitutional checks on gerrymandering, were greenlit to go ahead and rig their maps as much as possible. Never mind that when the politicians pick their voters, the democratic mechanism of voting is diminished, if not extinguished.”
“Now, consider what might happen in the 2026 midterms and beyond if states are not only free to engage in partisan gerrymanders, but, as the GOP justices are presumably preparing to make reality, free from an obligation to create majority-minority districts. ”
“This week, UCLA election law expert Rick Hasen [laid](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/08/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-clarence-thomas-message.html) out the consequences in *Slate*: “It would end what has been the most successful way that Black and other minority voters have gotten fair representation in Congress, state legislatures, and local bodies. It would be an earthquake in politics and make our legislative bodies whiter and our protection for minority voters greatly diminished.”
“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.”
If we’re ever allowed an even halfway fair election and win, this court needs to be packed. This is insanity.
So I guess smoking in a gas filled room is a thing. Wonder how this will work out.
The supreme court and republicans forgot about one of the most important aspects of politics, “Consent of the governed”.
They don’t have that from the majority but it will become a very important lesson once people reach their boiling point.
That’s why their whole coup is pointless! The US population is just too big and used to personal freedom to live under the minority’s boot for very long.
So is Roberts bulletproof, or something?
Honest question.
[AP 7/39: ](https://apnews.com/article/voting-rights-section-2-lawsuits-federal-court-f80f2f8232ec3eed4b2e20570874d21f)
“A federal appeals court panel on Monday ruled that private individuals and organizations cannot bring voting rights cases under a section of the law that allows others to assist voters who are blind, have disabilities or are unable to read.
It’s the latest ruling from the St. Louis-based 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, saying only the government can bring lawsuits alleging violations of the Voting Rights Act.”
In other words, you cannot sue for your voting rights. Only those suppressing your right to vote can sue.
Edit: quotation marks.
Yeah. Everyone with half a brain said so before the election. The less than half a brain types said “Yeah, but bigotry!”
Remember when the Supreme Court handed Bush the election?
And even now people want to fight me when I say that MAGA is nothing more than a desire to return to a time when straight white men were in charge, women and people of color knew their places, and the LGBTQ folks were invisible.
Only fitting that we lose voting rights from unelected officials.
Donald Trump is a pedophile
“I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
What else is new? We just need to end the Supreme Court
They are all Americans. All citizens of all races and genders over 18 should all have the same voting rights. Nothing more nothing less. No citizen group should have any preferential treatment to vote.
What the actual fuck is up with these clowns? How can they even justify ending America to themselves?
It’s all falling apart and we can’t do anything about it anymore. At least it feels like it.
I’m so glad we allowed , with no response, republicans to steal two Supreme Court justice nominations. But we acted more maturely and pointed out there shame, so it’s fine.
This is generational and possibly irreversible destruction of the nation. At this rate, there will be nothing left to govern or defend, just a husk of a society pillaged by the oligarchs with charred remains.
But her emails…protest vote tho.
“Trump may be behind this plan, but it was the Supreme Court that made such brazen partisan gerrymandering possible.
In 2019’s Rucho v. Common Cause, a 5-4 GOP majority announced federal courts could not hear challenges to partisan gerrymandering claims. Texas, and any other state that doesn’t have its own constitutional checks on gerrymandering, were greenlit to go ahead and rig their maps as much as possible. Nevermind that when the politicians pick their voters, the democratic mechanism of voting is diminished, if not extinguished.”
These is now criminals
At what point do we the People do what we have to do to get rid of these 6 idiots? They are nerds who have never done anything but sit at a desk and “imagine” how reality works. There has to be a common sense point at which we acknowledge that these traitors are killing our Constitution. How long do we have to play stupid? THEY ARE IDIOTS! TGEY ARE NOT AMERICANS! TGEY ARE TRAITORS! Can we ship them to North Korea—a real dictatorship? I’m sick of this bullshit!
Sooner or later, we’re going to wind up with really significant political violence in this country.
As a white voter, I’m calling bullshit in their proposed rhetoric.
Get yourselves a new court before they destroy your country
Black and others should make a new nation under a new constitution.and leave these maga/Republicans to the debt they made
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