Category: Supreme Court

I’m worried about voting rights

Let’s be optimistic. Let’s say that Manchin and Sinema agree to bypass the filibuster and one or more voting rights bills pass and are signed into law by Biden. (I don’t think this will happen but just for sake of discussion, let’s say it does.)

This is what worries me:

Republicans would take this to the courts and it would go all the way to the Supreme Court. The right-wing Supreme Court has already shown they are not interested in voting rights when they gutted the 1965 law. They have said they will not interfere with partisan gerrymandering.

I would expect them to overturn any new voting laws and we’ll be right back where we are today. None of this will change until (if and when) we get a liberal majority on the Supreme Court.

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I just saw this:

The majority supports keeping Roe v. Wade

That won’t stop the Republican Supreme Court from killing it. The majority also disagrees with the Court on the terrible Texas law. Republicans don’t care if their policies are popular.

Republican Supreme Court’s terrible eviction ruling

They only support presidential power when a Republican is president.

The Supreme Court is the biggest obstacle to voting rights legislation

Even if Congress passes voting rights legislation to undo damage done by the Supreme Court and Republican states, the Supreme Court is likely to strike it down. This is very discouraging. We will only make progress in voting rights when the court doesn’t have a Republican-appointed conservative majority.

The public supports Roe v. Wade while Republicans want to overturn it

Once again, Republicans are going against what the people want. They’re hypocrites. They’re big on states rights except for things like abortion where they want to prevent states from allowing it.

The phony FBI “investigation” of Kavanaugh

FBI leadership needs to be held accountable for this sham.

Would the Supreme Court undermine new voting legislation?

This is an excellent point. Based on what the court decided on Arizona, it’s reasonable to think the court would rule against any new laws that tried to restore voting rights. This is a bad situation and I am not optimistic that voting rights will ever be protected with the current court balance..

Conservatives want to expand gun rights – They’re wrong

So conservatives respond to mass shootings and shootings by police by trying to expand gun rights. This is the opposite of what should be done.

The Supreme Court willingness to hear this case is a result of the court’s more conservative lean because of the seats Republicans stole.

I agree with Chief Justice Roberts on the ACA

I don’t agree with Roberts on much but he’s right on this one.

from the article linked to below:

“I think it’s hard for you to argue that Congress intended the entire act to fall if the mandate was struck down when the same Congress that lowered the penalty to zero did not even try to repeal the rest of the act,” Roberts told the attorney representing Texas, one of the states fighting the law. “I think, frankly, that they wanted the court to do that, but that’s not our job,” Roberts added.

Roberts is right. Republicans are trying to get the court to repeal the ACA (Obamacare) since they failed in dozens of attempts to do it in Congress. It was passed as a law. If it is going to be repealed, it should be done the same way – by Congress.