Your reminder that the vote suppression law Georgia passed today will go into effect only because John Roberts decided to read Section 2 of the 15th Amendment out of the Constitution in the 21st century Dred Scott
The persons responsible for the Voting Rights Act understood that legislatures could be very creative about inventing vote suppression measures, and created an elegant solution. The Supreme Court threw it out with a decision that barely even pretended to be constitutional law.
It's worth noting that Shelby County is not the only Roberts Court atrocity deeply implicated in the wave of Republican vote suppression efforts. Rucho v. Common Cause is also a huge contributing factor lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/03/john-r…
In a closely divided state, democracy should be a constraint against the kind of power grab the Georgia legislature executed yesterday. Georgia Republicans did is only because they've essentially guaranteed themselves permanent control irrespective of the will of the voters.
To invoke "political questions" doctrine to allow legislators to deny citizens in their state a republican form of government is not merely wrong, but perverse. If judicial review is good for *anything,* it's to prevent violations of rights that are beyond legislative remedy.
Roberts seems deeply concerned with his legacy, but not concerned enough to recognize that if Republicans succeed in killing American democracy his fingerprints will be all over the knife. vox.com/21211880/supre…
Michigan is another state where a legislature that has placed itself beyond democratic accountability is trying to strangle the right to vote:
https://twitter.com/EliNSavit/status/1375489607018586117
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