When Republican elites write stuff like this about their vote suppression laws, you wonder if they're lying to their readers or to themselves:
Does the Georgia law expand access to the ballot on net? Evaluating this requires looking at provisions that will be ignored if you're an NRO reader, and the answer is straightforward: slate.com/news-and-polit…
And needless to say, if you ACTUALLY wanted a solution that would eliminate electioneering (which was already illegal under Georgia law -- the ban on bringing people water was just malicious) and long lines, you would support the universal vote-by-mail in the For the People Act.
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The NRO defending indefensible vote suppression efforts targeted at minority voters is inevitable -- they have a brand going back to 1957 to protect, after all -- but this would-be gotcha is hilarious stuff nationalreview.com/2021/03/joe-bi…
Biden said the law forbids providing water to voters standing in line, and that's exactly what it does. It's true that the law does not forbid bringing your own water but since Biden didn't say that it did I have no idea what the point is supposed to be.
Also, genuine LOL at the idea that the state will step in to alleviate the long lines in urban areas that Republicans have INTENTIONALLY MADE LONGER by eliminating both polling places and now drop boxes (the latter of which, needless to say, goes unmentioned.)
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…
"On one hand, disenfranchising 700,000 people is bad. O the other hand, enfranchising them would make the Senate slightly less unrepresentative. In conclusion, this would be bad because it would make Republicans mad." 👌
The most remarkable bullshitting done in this op-ed is to discuss the norms of statehood before the Civil War and not the addition of multiple empty western states AFTER the Civil War, because bringing up the latter would completely destroy his argument lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/03/is-dem…
"Today’s mass murder at a supermarket in Boulder took place across the street from the apartment where I lived for the first three years after I moved to this city" lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/03/americ…
Every one of these involved a firearm, and all but two a semi-automatic firearm
Larry Silberman's ridiculous Fox News rant about the Liberal Media -- in the context of arguing that NY Times v. Sullivan should be overruled! -- predictably earns the ecstatic praise of a notable Donald Trump superfan
Glenn is a Free Speech absolutist, and the values of Free Speech require, er, conservative politicians and judges to be able to bankrupt media organizations for printing things about them they consider insufficiently flattering