The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Just Issued the Worst Ruling in a Century

Gotta make it as difficult as possible to vote otherwise conservatives would have no chance at all.

Bought. And. Paid. For.

There was a guy in another thread about this actually trying to defend this because, in their *actual* words, “Equality based on race is discriminatory.”

This is the caliber of thinking we are dealing with. ‘Racial equality is discrimination’ because it’s “based on race,” said without a hint of fucking irony.

Sorry Trump v. US was the worst.

This is merely the second worst this century. 

I hope Roberts knows Taney. He’s his successor. 

Once again Clarence Thomas destroys the very things that helped him get to where he is ..

So let me understand. 5 people hold most of the wealth, we can’t afford to live, wages haven’t increased in decades, and now we can’t vote to change any of this? It is like they are insisting on a revolution.

Republicans knew exactly what they were doing when they schemed their way through the courts to dilute the minority vote by challenging section 2 of the voting Rights Act. A historically significant provision that protects voters from being unfairly sequestered

Republicans have been suppressing the vote for years and taking advantage of voter geography to gain seats where they otherwise wouldn’t.

Their voter suppression campaign escalated in the aftermath of Jan 6th and in response to Trump’s ‘big lie.”

The GOP has seized on this post Jan 6 environment to sow distrust in our elections. They have piggybacked off Trump’s lies of election fraud; tapping into a stockpile of conspiracy theories, lies, and misinformation to dissuade and deceive the public and to carry out a nationwide campaign of disenfranchisement and voter suppression.

Republicans are also consolidating power at an alarming rate; abusing their trifecta and their control over state legislatures to give themselves the ultimate say on how maps are drawn; unilaterally deciding who their voters are and not the other way around.

MAGA can clutch their pearls all they want, but these redistricting wars are a consequence of the Republican party’s extreme gerrymandering efforts.

Democrats are just responding in kind—an effective, reasonable and common sense strategy.

Remember that in CA, Americans came out in droves to vote overwhelmingly in favor of proposition 50. Election data shows that some counties that voted for Trump in 2024 also supported prop 50.

For decades, Republicans have been exploiting the fact that Democrats are more vulnerable to gerrymandering. Republicans have also benefitted most from redistricting because they have broader control over state legislatures.

But the GOP has also tried other ways over the years to influence and subvert elections

Republicans have frequently attacked or have even sought to eliminate election procedures and conveniences like early voting, mail in balloting, polling accessibility and extended polling hours, existing ID laws, automatic and same day voting registration, ballot boxes, ranked choice voting, voting rights, standardized election security measures, among other things.

Republicans try to disguise their voter suppression tactics as an effort to “protect election integrity.”

And in recent years especially, Republicans have been capitalizing on the ignorance and distrust of their voters to empower themselves with more legal authority to challenge election results and consolidate control over the election system.

To make matters worse, Trump has been federalizing state troops and mobilizing trigger happy ICE thugs to US cities around the country where he no doubt plans to use this paramilitary force to suppress the vote in upcoming elections.

Then there’s Trump’s recent threats of “nationalizing” US elections.

So much for states rights huh?

Republicans have the gall to say they’re “protecting the integrity of elections,” while making every effort to do the opposite.

Other systemic problems impede free and fair elections too. Issues that Republicans deliberately ignore or fail to address properly.

Like foreign election meddling, the awful Citizens United ruling and campaign finance corruption.

If MAGA is truly intent on “protecting election integrity,” they should focus on the myriad systemic issues that Trump/Republicans continue to exploit instead of obsessing over baseless conspiracy theories.

But Republicans have succeeded at using culture war propaganda and conspiracy theories about rampant election fraud to divert attention away from their efforts to erode the democratic process.

Another one of their favorite tactics involves scapegoating immigrants, minorites and marginalized groupswho they urge you to blame for our nation’s problems like manufactured and pervasive “voter fraud.”

Turns out, Republicans are the REAL threat to “election integrity.”

This Court has done more damage to this country in the last few years than most presidents do in two terms.

Nah. Citizens United is ahead still. Largely because it was one of the dominos that led to this mess.

The SCOTUS GOP partisan hacks are bought and paid for by the federalist society and the GOP deepstate oligarchs. What do you expect, traitors to this nation and the rule of law.

Absolutely paid for.

A pool of 100 judges, so you won’t know which 9 you get. This is the only solution.

Just another conservative myth that any possible means of fighting racial discrimination is racist. Sad day for justice in the US today.

Worst Ruling so far

Maybe?  Remember, they overturned Roe v Wade.  

The main takeaway is that they are massive pieces of hypocritical shit and Dems should have expanded and packed the fuck out of the court 4 years ago.

The worst ruling in a century, so far….

That was Citizens United v. FEC

America is not going to survive MAGA

It definitely shows that the justices have been corrupted.

White christo-fascism.

I’m feeling hopeless