- cross-posted to:
- politics@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- politics@beehaw.org
Summing up the article using excerpts from it, but still worth reading in its entirety:
Louisiana v Callais is a major challenge to what remains of the Voting Rights of Act of 1965 (VRA) and could radically rework the structure of political representation in the United States. A successful challenge to the VRA would allow the Republican party to further cheat democracy by engaging in even more partisan gerrymandering and erasing several legislative districts held by Democratic officials, many of whom are racial minorities.
Multiple courts relied on section two of the VRA to strike down a set of legislative maps that did not afford Black voters with equal rights or equal opportunities as white voters. That set off a redistricting process where the Louisiana legislature had to ensure the state’s maps provided Black voters with political representation.
Now the supreme court is being asked to find section two illegal – to say that considering political equality is a kind of discrimination. The argument is that prohibiting legislatures from discriminating against Black voters, by denying them political opportunities, actually discriminates against white voters.
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More bigoted bullsh*t from a bigoted terrorist regime. When will the racists be ousted? I suppose when all the white non-sumpremists oust them? Only then will racists see that the rich white psuedo-churchgoers aren’t discriminated against and that they’re just whining nazis in disguise trying to cheat their way into some sort of “supremacy”. 😮💨
You can say bullshit on the Internet.
It has been said before, but being reduced to a place of normality from a place of privilege is always going to feel like oppression to the privileged.
This argument is so fucking bonkers and racist the Republican Justices don’t even need bribes to vote for it.
This sounds like an incredibly dumb argument, but I’m trying to understand their reasoning. Are they admitting that this proposed legislature is discriminating black voters, but say it’s ok because otherwise it would be discrimination against white voters? Or are they claiming it’s not discriminatory at all? In the former case, wouldn’t there need to be some law that says discrimination against whites is worse than discrimination against blacks?
“Incredibly dumb” isn’t even the lowest bar they need to clear with the ol’ 6-3
I think it’s one of those “will of the voters” things they keep going on about. If we don’t let Republicans destroy democracy then we are besmirching the rights of their voters, who just happen to be majority white and clearly gave Republicans a “mandate”. But fuck you if you’re a Democratic voter, It’s not possible for Democrats to have a mandate.
I’m not totally sure though, trying to think like them makes my brain hurt.
The correct ruling should be to call all gerrymandering illegal.
So their argument is that by not discriminating against black people it automatically means they are discriminating against white people. Pretty dumb argument.
My question then is, doesn’t the Constitution leave elections to state legislatures? Why are they not arguing instead that the Federal government is trying to interfere through the voting rights Act and therefore acting unconstitutionally?
The constitution stopped mattering to the SCOTUS the moment they declared Fart a king, so all that you know about how the rule of law should work is completely irrelevant because they will just fulfill the will of dear Führer. I hate this timeline.
When you’re privileged, equality looks like oppression.
The system has so many loopholes, there isn’t much substance left anymore.
It needs a complete overhaul.
But I’m not sure how that could work while the country is running, and you can’t stop a country. History shows us that revolution is the only option here, I guess?
Trump can stop a country: see the upcoming shutdown. Americans don’t have a lot of remaining opportunities to stop fascism. Y’all might want to do something about Trump while he can’t pay his soldiers - might be your last chance.
I suspect he will simply write a decree that overrides the shutdown and the SCOTUS will allow it even if it may seem to be stopped by a lower court at first. Just. Like. All. The. Other. Shit. He’s. Done.
Country, not government. But he isn’t far from the former either.
I know what you mean, but I think that a government shutdown would stop the country eventually. There is too much critical infrastructure that is run by the government. The civil service, no matter how much some people deride it, is the main difference between a functional country and somewhere like Somalia. Somalia should be a republican’s wet dream, right? Entrepreneurs can exploit any resources they want, they have no labour board, no safety standards, no corporate income tax. And yet, Somalia has so far failed to overtake the USA as a paragon of innovation and productivity. If anyone wants to see what a country with small government really looks like, they need only look at Somalia.
What a shithole.
