Everything Clarence benefited from he has struck down. He wants to act like he is part of the club and did everything himself. PBS did a great documentary on his life and you can get a feel for what makes him tick. He always acted as he was not part of the community even as a kid.
Gold_Drummer_4077 on
It’s the lopsidedness of it all. The pendulum will swing and there’s not a lot these domestic terrorists can do about it.
Mingyu_Chen on
The US is a fascist shithole country 🫡
danappropriate on
This ruling is one more step toward the long-term goal of the Federalist Society: returning the court to _Plessy_ and institutionalizing “separate but equal.”
Sedu on
They have ruled that it is legal to gerrymander in racially motivated ways as long as you can prove that it is in service of winning (Republicans), but if you try to un-do this to restore voting equality because that is based on race (Democrats), that it is anti white racism, and illegal.
Pretty brazen.
espinaustin on
In Amerika, politicians pick their voters, not the other way around. Democrracy manifest!
butwhyisitso on
Well, if we want a dignified future we’re going to have to work a lot harder to get it. Things have gone from “incredibly fucked” to “exponentially fucked”. Vote better while you can, at this rate elections wont be around much longer.
BlondeBorednBaked on
Abolish the Supreme Court
PrestigiousCopy4963 on
Typical pull the ladder up behind you mentality
Radiant-Month-1168 on
Supreme Court just ignoring the constitution and doing line item vetoes.
TheBalzy on
Enough’s enough. Time to pack the court. Get the Trifecta in 2028 and then add +4 SCOTUS justices.
prof_the_doom on
Guess it’s time for California to put the entire southern half in a single district and split LA and San Fran into 20 districts each.
meowmeowgang44 on
When do we rise up?
Curious-Emu3894 on
If liberals can retake control of the 3 branches, let hell rain down. Impeach the crooked justices once you confirm all of their illegal actions. Investigate and jail every fucking MAGA person that broke the law; including Trump.
ANTILAMER13 on
If you see something about minority voters and the Supreme Court today, here is an explanation
SCOTUS just gutted the VRA and allowed for reverse discrimination to be taken seriously as part of a legal argument in the highest court of our nation.
6-3
Callais v. Landry
A group of non-Black voters challenged this map as an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander”
a Louisiana congressional map had been redrawn to include a second Black-majority district to comply with the VRA
SCOTUS: race was too predominant in the maps creation, effectively siding with the challenge.
DISSENT: The ruling strengthens the argument that creating minority-opportunity districts to comply with the VRA is a form of illegal “reverse discrimination”.
gibbojab on
Genuine question, has the Supreme Court always been so political instead of judicial? Supposed to be bipartisan but anything that isn’t blatantly written in the constitution like birthright citizenship is going one way with the same vote 6-3.
Ok_Check9774 on
In 1888, near the end of his life, Sherman published an essay in the North American Review defending the full civil rights of black citizens in the former Confederacy.[190][191][192] In that essay, Sherman called upon the South to “let the negro vote, and count his vote honestly”, adding that “otherwise, so sure as there is a God in Heaven, you will have another war, more cruel than the last, when the torch and dagger will take the place of the muskets of well-ordered battalions”.[190][193]
jonasnew on
While the chances are slim that all the southern states would be able to pull off redistricting in time for the midterms, if they do manage to pull that off, one has to wander why the liberal justices would finish their dissent quick enough for the southern states to pull this off.
ViewExplorer on
So we all change our party affiliation to “Independent” and never fill in racial background on the census, so they can’t gerrymander based on race and call it “political affiliation”.
MasterArCtiK on
I mean, it’s because they have lol we all know they have, every red state legislature is mobilizing hard right now to gerrymander like crazy
Mr-A-1991 on
Clarence Thomas reminds me of Stephen from Django Unchained. He sold his soul for the illusion of being in the in-group.
asher1611 on
It really sucks living in history. When I was in law school things like *The Slaughterhouse Cases* and *Plessy v. Ferguson* were supposed to be signposts to demonstrate how bad things used to be and how far we had come as a nation.
But no, it turns out elections have consequences. And I’m not just referring to 2024, although that was the deathknell.
CivilWay1444 on
They don’t uphold the law ant longer.
SuperThomaja on
Wow. That’s terrible. I believe the only way this is going to help in the midterms is if they can find a race of people that’s okay with $6 gas. The Republicans are going to have a lot to answer for in the midterms. It’ll be like the house and the Senate after Hoover left and the Republicans held neither for 30 years because of him. No matter how they gerrymander the states, there’s no way they can gerrymander high inflation and food shortages.
Gerrymander that.
Chemical-Fault-7331 on
Ok so all the democratic states, now that the racist conservative states have basically solidified power, and seeing as these racist states control the senate, are we gonna realize this country is a failed nation and it’s time to withdraw from the union and let this failed nation collapse? It’s a failed nation. It’s not coming back. Way too much consolidated corporate influence and dumbass racist hicks.
IceNein on
Hope everyone who sat out the 2016 or voted for Stein feels proud of themselves.
Fartenstein65 on
Would sure be amazing even in redrawn districts Republicans lost and lost badly. We all know where the blame would go.
Kat_Schrodinger1 on
“I don’t care about this. I only care about student loans.” – 2016, 2024 “voter” probably.
SpezSucksSamAltman on
Rape Club strikes again.
PotatoesAreNotReal on
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Thor_2099 on
And once again more huge consequences from the lack of Hilary winning in 2016.
If she had been president, this wouldn’t be happening now. So any “both sides!” people and ones bemoaning how Dems aren’t liberal enough can get fucked. It’s not always about what is best but what is the better option. The path we are on is not the better option.
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Everything Clarence benefited from he has struck down. He wants to act like he is part of the club and did everything himself. PBS did a great documentary on his life and you can get a feel for what makes him tick. He always acted as he was not part of the community even as a kid.
It’s the lopsidedness of it all. The pendulum will swing and there’s not a lot these domestic terrorists can do about it.
The US is a fascist shithole country 🫡
This ruling is one more step toward the long-term goal of the Federalist Society: returning the court to _Plessy_ and institutionalizing “separate but equal.”
They have ruled that it is legal to gerrymander in racially motivated ways as long as you can prove that it is in service of winning (Republicans), but if you try to un-do this to restore voting equality because that is based on race (Democrats), that it is anti white racism, and illegal.
Pretty brazen.
In Amerika, politicians pick their voters, not the other way around. Democrracy manifest!
Well, if we want a dignified future we’re going to have to work a lot harder to get it. Things have gone from “incredibly fucked” to “exponentially fucked”. Vote better while you can, at this rate elections wont be around much longer.
Abolish the Supreme Court
Typical pull the ladder up behind you mentality
Supreme Court just ignoring the constitution and doing line item vetoes.
Enough’s enough. Time to pack the court. Get the Trifecta in 2028 and then add +4 SCOTUS justices.
Guess it’s time for California to put the entire southern half in a single district and split LA and San Fran into 20 districts each.
When do we rise up?
If liberals can retake control of the 3 branches, let hell rain down. Impeach the crooked justices once you confirm all of their illegal actions. Investigate and jail every fucking MAGA person that broke the law; including Trump.
If you see something about minority voters and the Supreme Court today, here is an explanation
SCOTUS just gutted the VRA and allowed for reverse discrimination to be taken seriously as part of a legal argument in the highest court of our nation.
6-3
Callais v. Landry
A group of non-Black voters challenged this map as an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander”
a Louisiana congressional map had been redrawn to include a second Black-majority district to comply with the VRA
SCOTUS: race was too predominant in the maps creation, effectively siding with the challenge.
DISSENT: The ruling strengthens the argument that creating minority-opportunity districts to comply with the VRA is a form of illegal “reverse discrimination”.
Genuine question, has the Supreme Court always been so political instead of judicial? Supposed to be bipartisan but anything that isn’t blatantly written in the constitution like birthright citizenship is going one way with the same vote 6-3.
In 1888, near the end of his life, Sherman published an essay in the North American Review defending the full civil rights of black citizens in the former Confederacy.[190][191][192] In that essay, Sherman called upon the South to “let the negro vote, and count his vote honestly”, adding that “otherwise, so sure as there is a God in Heaven, you will have another war, more cruel than the last, when the torch and dagger will take the place of the muskets of well-ordered battalions”.[190][193]
While the chances are slim that all the southern states would be able to pull off redistricting in time for the midterms, if they do manage to pull that off, one has to wander why the liberal justices would finish their dissent quick enough for the southern states to pull this off.
So we all change our party affiliation to “Independent” and never fill in racial background on the census, so they can’t gerrymander based on race and call it “political affiliation”.
I mean, it’s because they have lol we all know they have, every red state legislature is mobilizing hard right now to gerrymander like crazy
Clarence Thomas reminds me of Stephen from Django Unchained. He sold his soul for the illusion of being in the in-group.
It really sucks living in history. When I was in law school things like *The Slaughterhouse Cases* and *Plessy v. Ferguson* were supposed to be signposts to demonstrate how bad things used to be and how far we had come as a nation.
But no, it turns out elections have consequences. And I’m not just referring to 2024, although that was the deathknell.
They don’t uphold the law ant longer.
Wow. That’s terrible. I believe the only way this is going to help in the midterms is if they can find a race of people that’s okay with $6 gas. The Republicans are going to have a lot to answer for in the midterms. It’ll be like the house and the Senate after Hoover left and the Republicans held neither for 30 years because of him. No matter how they gerrymander the states, there’s no way they can gerrymander high inflation and food shortages.
Gerrymander that.
Ok so all the democratic states, now that the racist conservative states have basically solidified power, and seeing as these racist states control the senate, are we gonna realize this country is a failed nation and it’s time to withdraw from the union and let this failed nation collapse? It’s a failed nation. It’s not coming back. Way too much consolidated corporate influence and dumbass racist hicks.
Hope everyone who sat out the 2016 or voted for Stein feels proud of themselves.
Would sure be amazing even in redrawn districts Republicans lost and lost badly. We all know where the blame would go.
“I don’t care about this. I only care about student loans.” – 2016, 2024 “voter” probably.
Rape Club strikes again.
[ Removed by Reddit ]
And once again more huge consequences from the lack of Hilary winning in 2016.
If she had been president, this wouldn’t be happening now. So any “both sides!” people and ones bemoaning how Dems aren’t liberal enough can get fucked. It’s not always about what is best but what is the better option. The path we are on is not the better option.