The only way in which Trump “Made America Great Again” was for those who wanted to see a return to a Supreme Court that would restore Dred Scot and Plessy v Ferguson.
Judges appointed by presidents who could not even win by getting the most votes — whose very positions on the bench are the result of an undemocratic system — want to ensure that the attacks undermining democracy as the means of selecting representation will continue unabated.
The ruling was not a final decision. It was overturning the lower court finding that the apportionment in Alabama violated the Voting Rights Act and electoral integrity Amendments to the Constitution. The judges determined that it was “too close to an election.” even though the midterms are still NINE MONTHS AWAY, and two of the Trump appointees were nominated and confirmed closer to an election than that, and even though the case was filed THE DAY AFTER THE APPORTIONMENT WAS ANNOUNCED, and the district federal trial court ruled promptly, so it was all done in the fastest possible time.
Carving up legislative districts to deliberately marginalize voting blocs on the basis of race (or any other protected criterion) not only violates what’s left of the Voting Rights Act, but clearly a violation of the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-Fourth and Twenty-Sixths Amendments (taken together) of the United States Constitution that were supposed to protect right to vote regardless of race and ensure equal protection of the laws.
The only way in which Trump “Made America Great Again” was for those who wanted to see a return to a Supreme Court that would restore Dred Scot and Plessy v Ferguson.
Judges appointed by presidents who could not even win by getting the most votes — whose very positions on the bench are the result of an undemocratic system — want to ensure that the attacks undermining democracy as the means of selecting representation will continue unabated.
The ruling was not a final decision. It was overturning the lower court finding that the apportionment in Alabama violated the Voting Rights Act and electoral integrity Amendments to the Constitution. The judges determined that it was “too close to an election.” even though the midterms are still NINE MONTHS AWAY, and two of the Trump appointees were nominated and confirmed closer to an election than that, and even though the case was filed THE DAY AFTER THE APPORTIONMENT WAS ANNOUNCED, and the district federal trial court ruled promptly, so it was all done in the fastest possible time.
Carving up legislative districts to deliberately marginalize voting blocs on the basis of race (or any other protected criterion) not only violates what’s left of the Voting Rights Act, but clearly a violation of the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-Fourth and Twenty-Sixths Amendments (taken together) of the United States Constitution that were supposed to protect right to vote regardless of race and ensure equal protection of the laws.