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Prof. Garrett Epps
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SCOTUS Correspondent, http://theatlantic.com , Prof., U. of Baltimore School of Law. Novel: THE SHAD TREATMENT. I don't answer eggs or FSB contractors.

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    1. Alyssa Milano‏Verified account @Alyssa_Milano Oct 20

      The most important piece of the Voting Rights Act was that specific jurisdictions w/ histories of discrimination needed to “preclear” any changes to voting laws. Every time they made a voting change, DOJ would review to see if it was discriminatory & approve or reject the change.pic.twitter.com/bYfeP6O1r5

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    2. Alyssa Milano‏Verified account @Alyssa_Milano Oct 20

      The Voting Rights Act worked. And it was reauthorized repeatedly by Congress with huge, near-unanimous bipartisan majorities.

      3 replies 231 retweets 688 likes
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    3. Alyssa Milano‏Verified account @Alyssa_Milano Oct 20

      But in 2013, in the 5-4 Shelby County v. Holder decision, John Roberts and the Republican appointees to the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act by killing preclearance. (Another reason Supreme Court justices are so important.)

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    4. Alyssa Milano‏Verified account @Alyssa_Milano Oct 20

      They said the formula by which the covered jurisdictions were chosen was outdated and unconstitutional: the world had changed & the preclearace requirement was no longer justified by the need to protect against discrimination. Clearly, they were gravely wrong about that.pic.twitter.com/GXqltJlPku

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    5. Alyssa Milano‏Verified account @Alyssa_Milano Oct 20

      Immediately after Shelby, many of the jurisdictions formerly subject to DOJ preclearance used their new-found freedom to pass the same bullshit discriminatory voting laws that the VRA so effectively guarded against.

      11 replies 234 retweets 670 likes
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    6. Alyssa Milano‏Verified account @Alyssa_Milano Oct 20

      Republicans have long embraced voter suppression as a winning political strategy.pic.twitter.com/jPFjFddI96

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    7. Alyssa Milano‏Verified account @Alyssa_Milano Oct 20

      Under the guise of preventing “voter fraud” (which experts say does not meaningfully exist), Republicans push for increasingly restrictive measures like Voter ID laws and aggressive voter roll purges.

      63 replies 241 retweets 666 likes
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    8. Alyssa Milano‏Verified account @Alyssa_Milano Oct 20

      The Republicans true motive is clear: suppress the votes of low-income, youth, and minority voters who tend to support Democrats. After Shelby County, Republicans again have free rein to do just that. And so they have.pic.twitter.com/SNmDMD8QVP

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    9. Alyssa Milano‏Verified account @Alyssa_Milano Oct 20

      Shelby was also an incredibly activist decision (Republicans love to decry judicial activism, so...ironic). A bare, partisan majority of the court struck down a near-unanimously passed act of Congress and disregarded its extensive factual findings about the need for a strong VRA

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    10. Alyssa Milano‏Verified account @Alyssa_Milano Oct 20

      The voter suppression we are seeing today makes crystal clear that a robust VRA is as important now as ever. Congress can and should restore the Act to full force and effect. And the Roberts Court should reckon with the egregious and shortsighted mistake it made in Shelby County.

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      Prof. Garrett Epps‏ @Profepps Oct 20
      Replying to @Alyssa_Milano

      Ms Milano, it wasn’t a mistake. IMHO the Chief Justice has long believed too many of the “wrong” people were voting, and voting wrong. They won’t re-think, because they support what’s happening.

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        2. Concerned Patriot‏ @LoylPatriot Oct 20
          Replying to @Profepps @Alyssa_Milano

          Um yeah. Dead people & illegal aliens shouldn't vote.

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