1. SCOTUS' new decision further undermines the Voting Rights Act & KAGAN is not mincing words: "What is tragic
here is that the Court has (yet again) rewritten—in order
to weaken—a statute that stands as a monument to America’s greatness, and protects against its basest impulses"
here is that the Court has (yet again) rewritten—in order
to weaken—a statute that stands as a monument to America’s greatness, and protects against its basest impulses"
"Never has a statute done more to advance the Nation’s highest ideals. And few laws are more vital in the current moment. Yet in the last decade, this Court has treated no statute worse."
"Yet efforts to suppress the minority vote continue. No one would know this from reading the majority opinion. It hails the “good news” that legislative efforts had mostly shifted by the 1980s from vote denial to vote dilution."
"The majority’s opinion mostly inhabits a law-free zone. It congratulates itself in advance for giving Section 2’s text
'careful consideration.' And then it leaves that language almost wholly behind."
'careful consideration.' And then it leaves that language almost wholly behind."
"In sum, the majority skates over the strong words Congress drafted to accomplish its equally strong purpose: ensuring that minority citizens can access the electoral system as easily as whites."
"By declaring some racially discriminatory burdens inconsequential, and by refusing to subject asserted state interests to serious means-end scrutiny, the majority enables voting discrimination."
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