c/uspolitics · by DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf · 129dThe 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. 94 points · 7 comments · view on lemmy.world
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lemmyng@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 129d
"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
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
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.