The court, by a 6-3 vote, reversed a lower court ruling in deciding that Arizona’s limits on who can return early ballots for another person and refusal to count ballots cast in the wrong precinct are not racially discriminatory.
The federal appeals court in San Francisco had held that the measures disproportionately affected Black, Hispanic and Native American voters in violation of the landmark Voting Rights Act.
Justice Samuel Alito wrote for a conservative majority that the state’s interest in the integrity of elections justified the measures.
In dissent, Justice Elena Kagan wrote that the court was weakening the landmark voting rights law for the second time in eight years.
“What is tragic here is that the Court has (yet again) rewritten — in order to weaken — a statute that stands as a monument to America’s greatness, and protects against its basest impulses. What is tragic is that the Court has damaged a statute designed to bring about ‘the end of discrimination in voting.’ I respectfully dissent,” Kagan wrote, joined by the other two liberal justices.
Meanwhile in Nevada, governor dickface has mandated that ballots will AUTOMATICALLY be sent to every registered voter in the state.
Therefore, there will not only be ballot harvesting, it will allow countless people to vote twice! Who’s gonna check?
Nevada is now PERMANENTLY a BLUE state.
*sigh
biden’s* DOJ Georgia lawsuit hardest hit…
RIP Merrick Garland
“Justice Elena Kagan wrote that the court was weakening the landmark voting rights law for the second time in eight years”
Good, weaken it some more. Damn thing never should have been passed in the first place.
“wise latina” is a dipshit.
So in other words, what she and the San Francisco court are saying is that Blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans are cheaters but should be given a pass and are too stupid to vote in their own precinct. Got it.
Brown Eyed Girl: No, what she was saying is that Blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans can be dependably used to keep Democrats in power.
GOP leaders are meeting now to see how they can fuck this win up before the next election.