Many experts are forecasting the end of a key provision of election law — enabling Republicans to shore up their advantage in the House, according to a new report.
Ahead of the court’s Oct. 15 rehearing of Louisiana v. Callais — a case that has major implications for the VRA — two voting rights groups are sounding the alarm, warning that eliminating Section 2, a provision that prohibits racial gerrymandering when it dilutes minority voting power, would let Republicans redraw up to 19 House seats to favor the party and crush minority representation in Congress.
Bye bye free and fair elections by the midterms! And people called me crazy for predicting this.
It’s why I will never understand the “just burn it down” crowd. That burn is going to take decades, lifetimes to happen. It’s going to be slow and agonizing for millions as civil rights dwindle and fascism keeps creeping further into every corner of the country, until that becomes the next generations’ new normal.
If we let the banks fail we’d be just about back to normal life by now.
Shit, I’d bet the odds of me owning a home in 2030 are higher if we let them fail in 08 than they are currently.
If we let the banks fail we’d be just about back to normal life by now.
Famously, when a national economy falls off a cliff, history just stops until its put back together again.
Shit, I’d bet the odds of me owning a home in 2030 are higher if we let them fail in 08 than they are currently.
The problem with a private real estate market is that the richest man in the room always wins. Letting the investment banks fail in '08 would have produced a different crop of richest men. But you’d be foolish to conclude plutocrats wouldn’t still be setting dogshit policy nationally in this alternate timeline.
No serious leftist wanted acceleranism. But we are here now. The political process right now will at best be delay. And we absolutely should do everything we can to delay. But there will be no more fair elections in this country. Fascism chips away, it returns violence of the state on anyone that tries to chip back peacefully.
Stay safe. Protect yourself and your neighbors.
As someone from a global south neighbor put it: the West will have the same misery people like them have had, and the only thing to do is organize.
Uncle Tom Clarence is gleefully rubbing his hands together.
Told you before that you may have voted yourselves into this mess but you’re not voting yourselves back out of it. That will require more stringent action.
“No one could have predicted this.”
Pffft. The only people that predicted this was everyone. That’s hardly a robust sample size.
That’s pretty much bye bye house like forever no? …cool cool cool
Why cant the Dems do the same thing to the GOP?
One reason is because GOP holds more state governments, but the other reason is that blue states put up safeguards, like independent commissions, to legitimize their states voting practices. CA is an example already, they need a proposition to pass while TX can simply gerrymander freely.
SCOTUS will find a reason.
Even getting there would require the dems to want to do something
Their job is to enable these kinds of actions from the GOP
You’re not crazy. You’re right.
I’m being told that they only win those seats if the Dang Leftists betray us like they did last time.
