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/
“In a startling concurrence, the justice [Clarence Thomas] faulted Brown v. Board of Education for empowering the court to limit racist redistricting.”
You’d think with the Alito controversy, SCOTUS would keep a low profile for a while.
You’d be wrong.
Justice Alito, writing for the 6-3 majority, essentially said it’s okay to disenfranchise Black voters in South Carolina, disregarding the South Carolina’s Supreme Court that gerrymandering was unconstitutional.
[Gift Article] Supreme Court Sides With Republicans Over South Carolina Voting Map
"The Supreme Court cleared the way on Thursday for South Carolina to keep using a congressional map that a lower court had deemed an unconstitutional racial gerrymander that resulted in the “bleaching of African American voters” from a district."
Keep shouting this: "#Alito has long been inscrutably angry, unwaveringly dogmatic, and the most predictably partisan of all justices. But his growing brazenness still shocks. Judges are required to “act at all times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary.” There is simply no question that Alito has breached the rules." #SCOTUShttps://www.commondreams.org/opinion/alito-upside-down-flag
In light of the second Alito flag report, Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin is calling for Samuel #Alito to recuse himself "immediately" from cases related to the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 insurrection "for the good of the country."
He adds: "The Chief Justice must see how this is damaging the Court and immediately enact an enforceable code of conduct."
@GottaLaff
I don't see the chief justice ever enacting any code of conduct because he is fully in line with the goals of the most egregious scandal riddled #SCOTUS members.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called on Supreme Court Justice Samuel #Alito to recuse himself from Jan. 6 cases after news that, according to The New York Times, a second flag of a type carried by Jan. 6 rioters was displayed outside Alito’s home.
The #SupremeCourt on Thurs allowed the use of a #SC congressional map that a lower court said “exiled” thousands of #BlackVoters to carve out a district safer for a #WhiteRepublican incumbent.
The decision was a victory for #Republicans not only because it clears the way for a map that is favorable to the #GOP. It also sets a high bar for determining when a map can be considered a #RacialGerrymander, rather than a #partisan one. #SCOTUS has previously found the #Constitution bars racial #gerrymandering but that federal courts cannot police partisan gerrymandering.
Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel #Alito noted many predominantly #Black precincts in #Charleston were moved out of one district & into another. But “because of the tight correlation between race & partisan preferences, this fact does little to show that #race, not #politics drove the legislature’s choice,” he wrote.
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.