Pic Of The Moment: Authoritarian GOP Continues War On Democracy

[EarlG]

Voting Rights in America, Six Years after Shelby v. Holder

Iowa governor signs Republican bill restricting voting access into law

Georgia Republicans Pass the Most Restrictive Voting Laws Since Jim Crow

The new Republican war on voting rights, explained

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[Tommymac]

1. History will remember RBG as an icon for human rights...Roberts will be a mere footnote...

gathering dust in the corner.

Unfortunately we have to live with him and his racist ilk in the now.

[turbinetree]

2. And then there is this gem for the Roberts Federalist Society right wing court is salivating on.....

“independent state legislature” doctrine.

https://electionlawblog.org/?p=120941

[Pepsidog]

6. Oh yea, SCOTUS is gonna to take "anything goes" attitude about state election laws.

[JohnnyRingo]

3. And the ghost of RGB appears to haunt Roberts

I can only hope he sees what his decision has wrought

[RVN VET71]

10. Sadly, I think he knew exactly what his decision would cause.

Either that or he’s a stupid, stupid man. And I think he’s actually quite bright.

History -- assuming there is a history written about this period -- will not be kind to him regardless his other accomplishments on the court. His decision to gut the voting rights act protecting millions of Americans will not wash and there is nothing he seems concerned to do to rectify it.

(But what, sir, can he do? Well, for one thing, he could speak publicly on the mess his decision caused, the injustices it has led to, the virulent racism is has exposed in the GOP at the State and local levels. His silence -- at least his public silence -- affirms his racism.)

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Strict Constructionism vs. current conditions

These are 2 diametrically opposed concepts.

[RVN VET71]

11. That's right.

It’s analogous to a fundamentalist Christian, adhering strictly to the wording of the Bible, taking his recalcitrant son out to the public square and inviting the citizenry to stone him to death. Deuteronomy 21: 18-21 orders just that. It is, of course, “originalist” and sane people no longer accept it as law. Not even Evangelicals or Catholics would put into action that which Deuteronomy requires.

I feel this is absolutely analogous to any reading of the Constitution. Originalists? Strict Constructionists? I’ll believe in their sincerity when they apply Deuteronomy’s abjurations to their disobedient children.

[CaptainTruth]

5. It's a war on America.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. K&R

[liberal N proud]

8. Republican plan... if it ain't broke

They will break it!

[Ford_Prefect]

9. Their war on access to democracy includes victimizing people with disabilities on the same scale

As the others listed above by compromising or eliminating our access to the vote, too.

[burrowowl]

12. K&R!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

13. Rs cannot win elections without lying, cheating, stealing, and

sometimes killing. These voter suppresion tactics involve at least 3 of the above.