“It has not been shown that their actual administration was evil, but only that evil was possible under them.” Although this sentence mirrors Alito’s language in #Brnovich, it’s actually an excerpt from another #SCOTUS decision... 1/ 
This language is from the 1898 Williams v Mississippi decision, which upheld the MS constitution’s use of poll taxes, literacy tests, the grandfather clause & more.
Just as today’s court tries to attribute discriminatory impact of Arizona’s law to other issues (education, income, etc), the 1898 court identified characteristics such as “careless, landless, migratory” etc. After all, “weak and vicious white men” could be impacted as well 🤨.
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