The Voting Rights Act is dead.

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/scotus-smothers-voting-rights-act-greenlighting-racial-discrimination-and-a-rash-of-gop-gerrymanders/

So, SCOTUS just killed the Voting Rights Act. Greeat.

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lemmyng@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 129d (2 replies)

"It was born of the literal blood of Union soldiers and civil rights marchers."

Reason n+1 that every single member of the Confederacy should've been strung up by their genitals and made to imitate chandeliers.

HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 129d

HERE-HERE

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 129d

they shouldve been wiped off the face of america, but they were given voting priveleges instead which was a mistake.

mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 129d (3 replies)

This is your reminder that we are BARELY done with 25% of this fucking presidency in the BEST case scenario.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 129d (1 reply)

wait til alito and clarence allows segregation laws again, plus who can go to which stores or facilities.

a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 128d

They will never be able to get the stains out of Thomas's pants from that day.

DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 129d

That presidency might actually turn into a dictatorship in a post-Voting Rights Act America. Trump basically bought himself a permanent autocracy in the worst case.