That’s the Clarence Thomas view on laws that demand equal treatment regardless of race, color, creed or gender.
Elections matter. Trump, elected by minority vote, packed the court with the guidance of Mitch McConnell. Those two conspired to ensure voting minorities continue to roll over voter majorities.
Senate D represent 36% more people than Rs, with 2% more votes, and thus control #scotus.
This is why I keep reiterating that while voting for Biden is necessary to slow down the fall of the USA to fascism, it's nowhere near enough.
There basically need to be people out in the streets protesting nonstop, and organizing even outside of the elections for political reform - on every level.
Republicans understood that if they wanted to change the country their way, they'd need to put their stooges on every level of the government - and it is now paying off handsomely with the court system.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling that South Carolina Republicans didn’t racially discriminate against Black voters when their district was gerrymandered in favor of Republican Nancy Mace (features Clarence Thomas’s self-hating concurrence at pg 41) https://tinyurl.com/5ptak48j#SCOTUS
Alito continues his anti-judicial white power reign of terror and completely gets the law wrong. Alito is a grave danger to the nation and the rule of law.
So patently unconstitutional that they should trigger immediate arrests of #Alito for judicial insurrection.
The very notion that political parties have any control over elections or districting is what is actually unconstitutional.
This leapt out to me. The Supreme Court has previously said that even if partisan gerrymandering violates the Constitution, federal courts can't stop it.
Today, the Supreme Court declared that partisan gerrymandering does not violate the Constitution. That is very different!
#Alito absolutely got it wrong, and the horror that he stripped healthcare from Women is a bloodbath. The monster of the court now tries to make illegal gerrymandering .... ok.
He is a sick fu@ker.
Look at what he did to Women. Now, you will see what he does to voting rights. Alito is finished. Americans, we must get rid of him. Remove Alito.
US Supreme Court Upholds South Carolina Congressional Map, Dismantles Racial Gerrymandering Precedent
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, in a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that South Carolina’s congressional map is not a racial gerrymander, reversing a lower court decision that struck down the map. South Carolina will not have a fair map for 2024 and this decision will hamper the ability of voters to fight unfair maps in the future. 2/
The more problematic idea here is that we have a #SCOTUS decision basically enshrining the role of political parties in government when anyone who has read the Federalist Papers knows that was the thing that the Framers of the Constitution expressly hoped to avoid.
Unfortunately, this gives people ample reason to distrust the Supreme Court's political question jurisprudence.
Justice Kagan is trying to make it clear here - fascist republicans activist will fight the same issues they lost, again, and overturn precedent through sheer will. There is no saving this Court.
Scotus upheld a Republican-drawn gerrymandered #congressional district map. Justice Elena Kagan expressed concern the fascist majority's will impede future racial gerrymandering cases. The ruling means that the disputed district will remain a safe seat for Republicans, who hold 6-1. Kagan highlights the effects of this decision on legislators who rely on race as a proxy for partisan ends or to suppress minority voters' electoral influence.🚨3/
“In a startling concurrence, the justice [Clarence Thomas] faulted Brown v. Board of Education for empowering the court to limit racist redistricting.”
It appears folks are not yet comfortable calling out the literal nazi pigs, like Trump, Bannon, Flynn, Alito, Kavanaugh, MTG, Josh Hawley et al. There were folks still putting a facade on Hilter and his thugs until the Allies arrived and opened the death camps for the world to see.
Is that how far you're willing to go pretending Trump and company are not nazis?
Citizens have the courage to be truthful about fascist who have already seized the #scotus and the House in Congress.