Georgia is attacking Black voters with surgical precision, with restrictions that don't even pretend to have any other purpose or justification lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/03/georgi…
Nobody can claim that voting on Sunday is more likely to be fraudulent, and Republicans themselves approved of vote by mail when white voters were more likely to use it. It's just pure, naked racist vote suppression nytimes.com/2021/03/06/us/…
Not only to Georgia Republicans think that voters in urban areas should have to wait in line for hours to vote, they want to make it illegal to bring them water!
In fairness, Republican legislators are able to defend Jim Crow 2.0 with such compelling rationales as "no comment"
Of course, in 1965 Congress passed landmark legislation designed exactly to prevent this kind of racist vote suppression, only to have it gutted in a ludicrously indefensible decision by a bare majority of the Supreme Court:
"Racism is over, so Congress no longer has the power to effectively enforce the 15th Amendment" -- John Roberts

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