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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Scotus's reasoning was immediately disproven by how quickly southern states eliminated Black majority districts.
Racism is alive and well.
There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2.
— Ahmed Baba (@ahmedbaba.bsky.social) 2026-05-08T13:04:35.296Z
SCOTUSâs reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.
justaprogressive
(7,170 posts)Mr.Bee
(1,920 posts)Lovie777
(23,742 posts)Oh yes, Alito, it's about race.
D_Master81
(2,685 posts)Look at Roe v Wade. How many of those justices sat in front of confirmation hearings and said that they werent going to overturn it? Only to do it within 2 years. They cover their asses in words to get through the moment to allow the conservative movement to win down the road
Solly Mack
(97,271 posts)returnee
(980 posts)and were ready to pounce. It was decided before oral arguments even started.
dalton99a
(95,296 posts)Wounded Bear
(64,642 posts)If repubs suddenly had a change of heart to more liberal values the justices would drop them like a bad apple.
orangecrush
(31,154 posts)It's up to us to seek justice.
in2herbs
(4,531 posts)be subjected to impeachment proceedings.
AverageOldGuy
(4,172 posts)Repeal the Civil Rights Act.
THE SOUTH HAS WON THE CIVIL WAR.
LeftInTX
(34,852 posts)Skittles
(172,881 posts)WORKING AS DESIGNED
mymomwasright
(448 posts)Time to put all the "my colleague and friend from the other side" talk to rest once and for all!
Chasstev365
(8,129 posts)no_hypocrisy
(55,380 posts)Old Crank
(7,270 posts)Which is why they made it effective immediately.
The corrupt and 6 have destroyed the country.
sop
(19,323 posts)"The same folks who fought integration tooth and nail in the 1960s, continued to drag their feet in the 1970s and 80s, and spent the intervening decades fomenting racial strife for their own electoral gains became the first people to insist without irony or self-awareness, let alone repentance or shame that racism was behind us."
"Integration went from never to too soon to enough already."
"One of the features of white supremacy, if youre a white supremacist, is you get to expurgate your own sins."
"You can shed the robe and hood. You can get cosmetic surgery, as David Duke literally did, and made yourself inoffensive and telegenic. You can craft elaborately self-serving legal theories stripped of overt racial animus. You can even flip the script and play indignant victim when accused of racism. But you never ever have to be accountable for Americas original sin."
GiqueCee
(4,745 posts)... of the Sinister Six's blatant racism is irrefutable, as is their servile obeisance to the vile creature who not only inspires and encourages the worst in his supporters, but openly celebrates it as if unswerving loyalty to him is patriotism. It is not.
The only good thing they've ever done is to lay bare all the reasons why the Court so desperately needs radical reform for the good of the country.
Their impeachment and disbarment cannot occur soon enough.
flashman13
(2,563 posts)fact that they ordered the opinion to be published immediately rather than wait the normal 32 days. They wanted the racists to get to work sooner rather than later. After all, they have a elections to steal.
Intractable
(2,390 posts)This country gonna crack along its fault lines.
B.See
(8,867 posts)and they KNEW IT. Theirs was a deliberate act to nullify the Voting Rights Act and re-establish Jim Crow.
They knew what would follow.
Skittles
(172,881 posts)yes indeed
moondust
(21,352 posts)Since John Crow Roberts has wanted to disappear the VRA since the early 80s, there may have been some coordination through the years and they had a plan ready that was just waiting for a trigger.
RockRaven
(19,754 posts)What the Roberts KKKourt does is start with the politically motivated outcome, and backfill any old bullshit as a hand waving excuse for their overtly partisan political activity.
They always do this when the question is one involving partisan politics. ALWAYS. They never start with data (facts, Constitution, laws, precedents) and reason their way to an answer.
struggle4progress
(126,683 posts)Totally Tunsie
(12,017 posts)Ilsa
(64,574 posts)law students of "Res ipsa loquitur," or does "Exitus acta probat" fit the situation that the decision resulted in proving the decision wrong?
Racism is alive and kicking out in the open now.
BlueHurricane
(79 posts)And say white people dont have all the power in those states and therefore they are being discriminated against because their power isnt overemphasized, Then the Roberts Court will require that blue states also have to agree with their new racist interpretation of the VRA and impose the same racial gerrymandering advantage for whites. It would be Jim Crow for all and we must do everything we can to stop it.
barbtries
(31,353 posts)as they hoped it would.
that the statement that racism doesn't exist anymore is false was always known to the racist, corrupt, super majority that put this calamity into motion. they are not surprised, and if you asked them, they would still maintain that these aren't "racial" gerrymanders.
permanent minority rule. they are essentially at the finish line.
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