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The Supreme Court Just Mangled the Voting Rights Act Beyond Recognition [HUMOR?]
Slate ^ | July 1, 2021 | Mark Joseph Stern

Posted on 07/02/2021 4:40:22 AM PDT by fwdude

There’s no way to sugarcoat it: On Thursday, the Supreme Court’s six conservative justices dismantled what remains of the Voting Rights Act, all but ensuring that every voter suppression law passed in the wake of the 2020 election will survive judicial scrutiny.

Thursday’s 6–3 decision in Brnovich v. DNC feigns moderation. Justice Sam Alito’s opinion for the court purports to leave the VRA’s most crucial remaining provision intact. Don’t believe it. Alito transformed a sweeping, historic law—one intended to bar voting restrictions with a racially discriminatory impact—into an empty promise. In theory, the VRA still stands. In reality, it has been flattened into meaningless symbolism, just when Black and brown Americans need it most.

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This is the type of overwrought, over-the-top angst you’re likely to find at the Babylon Bee. Read it as humor, because I can’t imagine any sane person taking this seriously.
1 posted on 07/02/2021 4:40:22 AM PDT by fwdude
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To: fwdude

The problem is, Leftards do take it seriously.


2 posted on 07/02/2021 4:42:01 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

Then they’re not sane.


3 posted on 07/02/2021 4:46:28 AM PDT by fwdude
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To: fwdude

About 10-20% of the country does take this a rational, unfortunately. They are useful idiots. No one running the show truly thinks even minor voting integrity is racist but the base eats this stuff up because they still believe most of the country is racist and that all anyone thinks about is race - largely because that IS how they see everything.


4 posted on 07/02/2021 4:52:00 AM PDT by rb22982 ( )
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To: fwdude

For all the other decision the SCOTUS has made - including their refusal to even address the obvious massive election fraud and unconstitutional changes to election laws in various states - this is a major plus.

If the Donkeys don’t find a way to get some version of the Cheat Forever Act through, they will have spectacularly failed in their efforts to rig the system - no DC or Puerto Rico statehood, no packing the supreme court and no federalizing of election to allow permanent massive cheating.


5 posted on 07/02/2021 4:52:17 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: fwdude

The leftard Demonicrats would only support “sane voter supression,” allowing only their insane supporters (along with illegal aliens and cemetery residents) to vote.


6 posted on 07/02/2021 4:55:23 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: rb22982

Actually, all of this is designed to keep the races separate. Trump proved that the working and decent blacks, , browns, whites, and other races could work together in unity with the idea that all could share in our economy. That is why he started swinging black and brown votes to the conservative side. However, the Liberal ruling class cannot, and will not have unity about anything. They must insist on diversity, in everything, so that THEY can control.


7 posted on 07/02/2021 4:59:51 AM PDT by silent majority rising
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To: fwdude

The author is Mark Joseph Stern. Everything he writes is like this. It’s pathetic.


8 posted on 07/02/2021 5:06:37 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: Travis McGee

I love it when the Left howls in pain.

L


9 posted on 07/02/2021 5:11:54 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: Travis McGee

“The problem is, Leftards do take it seriously.”

It’s VERY SIMPLE to understand what is going on. If you’re a Leftist in this country, only 30% of the country wants your REAL AGENDA, some of which the country is now starting to get a peek at (think AOC, blackouts due to solar/wind, CRT, no cops, etc.).

So unless they can ‘make up the difference’ at the polls, they’re doomed. So most Leftists don’t know exactly how the Democrats make up the difference (hint: vote counting), but they do know that whatever they’re doing is working, which is why they’re acting this way.


10 posted on 07/02/2021 5:12:58 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: fwdude

Their idea of voting rights is everybody, regardless of eligibility, casting as many votes in any contest as they want to. It makes a mockery of democracy.


11 posted on 07/02/2021 5:20:00 AM PDT by Spok (There are many more things that frighten us than can cause us harm.)
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To: fwdude

More from the middle aged snowflakes...
Can’t reason with ‘em..
getting angry doesn’t work...
what do you do???

I simply use these words..
“Go home to mama and cry, f&^%Ker”...
The basement dwellers hate that


12 posted on 07/02/2021 5:20:36 AM PDT by joe fonebone (bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN'Ts are the enemy)
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To: fwdude

I have family members who have been saying for years that voter ID laws are voter suppression. They believe it because that’s what Tom Brokaw and Lestor Holt told them. Even though they have IQs north of 130, they refuse to think critically and get defensive when you ask them questions. They aren’t suggesting that minorities are being turned away from polls in large numbers. They simply say that it’s about influence. Somehow, knowing that you will have to show an ID to vote will persuade minorities not to come at all. If that were true, why would that be?


13 posted on 07/02/2021 5:25:14 AM PDT by z3n
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To: silent majority rising

All of this is designed to divide Americans. It’s been the cultural Marxists’ plan since the 1940’s, out of The Frankfurt School.

Once well divided and at the beginning of CWII, socialism will be our savior, implemented by the Big ______ oligarchs, with someone as the face of Big Brother.


14 posted on 07/02/2021 5:31:05 AM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.d)
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To: fwdude

There are not “six Conservative Justices” on SCOTUS.


15 posted on 07/02/2021 5:44:48 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (Never do anything illegal, when you are doing something illegal. )
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To: fwdude

How exactly do you “accidentally cast a ballot in the wrong precinct.”

Well, you don’t if you go to the polling place in the precinct WHERE YOU LIVE and cast a ballot. For at that polling place are the ballots for THAT PARTICULAR PRECINCT WHERE YOU’RE AUTHORIZED TO VOTE ON ITEMS, SUCH AS LOCAL OFFICIALS, ORDINANCE CHANGES, ETC.


16 posted on 07/02/2021 6:00:10 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: fwdude

This is some of the most RACIST drivel one could imagine, does anyone notice how they constantly denigrate non white minorities?? You are Too STUPID to navigate the voting process, you can’t even figure out how to get an ID,

This is BIGOTRY and RACISM in action!


17 posted on 07/02/2021 6:03:12 AM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: fwdude
one intended to bar voting restrictions with a racially discriminatory impact

Can ANY of these wailing moon bats tell me HOW showing a photo ID has a racially discriminatory impact?

18 posted on 07/02/2021 6:06:48 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: fwdude

Seems like someone is throwing a hissy. How about a little more straight facts and a little less propaganda Mark Joseph Stern?


19 posted on 07/02/2021 6:16:11 AM PDT by Savage Rider
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To: Alas Babylon!

I always place a bet with them, that the number of fraudulent votes in every election FAR outstrips the number of qualified people prevented from voting because of these laws.

I believe it was Kansas, when they were defending their voter I.D. law years ago, that asked the attackers of their voter I.D. law in a lawsuit to present one person who was substantially prevented from voting because of the new law. They couldn’t produce a single one.


20 posted on 07/02/2021 6:24:30 AM PDT by fwdude
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