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1/ My starting point for #SupremeCourt jurisprudence since 2000 is a telling quote from Joel Klein's "The Natural" in which a Republican Senator concedes to Clinton that Republicans don't believe in government, but they love power. 
2/2000: #BushvGore, the Supreme Court stays the Florida recount with any opinion justifying the stay and then reverses the Fla. Supreme Court recount order as violating the Equal Protection Clause in a per curiam opinion that can't be cited as precedent.
3/2002: President Bush signed the #McCainFeingold campaign finance reform law, which foolishly included a restriction on the use of independent expenditures for commercials 60 days before an election.
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7 years ago, in a 5-4 decision, #SCOTUS handed down Shelby Co. v. Holder, effectively gutting the Voting Rights Act. Since we’re in the “most unprecedented election year,” let’s talk about voting rights and fighting voter suppression. #VRA #ShelbyCountyvHolder 1/X
7 years ago, in a 5-4 decision, #SCOTUS handed down Shelby Co. v. Holder, effectively gutting the Voting Rights Act. Since we’re in the “most unprecedented election year,” let’s talk about voting rights and fighting voter suppression. #VRA #ShelbyCountyvHolder 1/X
100 years post-Civil War, the VRA guaranteed the right to vote for Black folx. VRA became the most important piece of civil rights legislation that century and one of the transformational laws in history. 2/X
VRA suspended literacy tests, authorized Dept of Justice to file lawsuits to challenge poll taxes, sent federal observers to monitor elections, and, VRA§5 forced states w/ the worst history of discrimination to clear electoral changes with the fed govt. 3/X
On this fifth anniversary of the #ShelbyCountyvHolder decision and today's ruling in #AbbottvPerez—another voting rights decision that comes at a "serious cost" to our democracy—take some time to read our "Democracy Diminished" report: bit.ly/2KiTaVD. #RestoreTheVote
In the #ShelbyCountyvHolder decision, #SCOTUS gutted Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Section 5 acted as a crucial checkpoint for democracy, "stopping discriminatory voting laws before any election." #RestoreTheVote nytimes.com/2017/12/11/opi…
Since #ShelbyCountyvHolder, LDF has been monitoring state & local threats to voting, paying close attention to the states & localities that previously had to seek pre-approval of any voting changes as had been required by a fully-functioning #VRA. #RestoreTheVote
#AbbottvPerez: In a decision that comes down on the fifth anniversary of its decision in #ShelbyCountyvHolder, the U.S. Supreme Court today permitted Texas to use electoral maps tainted by intentional racial discrimination.
Read the Opinion: supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf… …
Read the Opinion: supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf… …
Sotomayor noted in her dissent, this does “great damage to that right of equal opportunity.” Since the disastrous Shelby decision, we’ve been tracking every new voting change that would have been covered by preclearance in our report Democracy Diminished.
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#SCOTUS today permitted Texas to continue using electoral maps that a three-judge lower court had unanimously found were tainted by intentional racial discrimination against Latino and Black voters and diluted minority voting strength.
Our Statement: bit.ly/2MYo4kC
Our Statement: bit.ly/2MYo4kC
