Most of these are just deeply deeply embedded into society. More affluent older people vote at much higher rates than younger poorer people. Whites vote at higher rates than AAs and especially Latinos. Long-standing patterns. But as you say, you have to vote or your opinions ...https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1051525948754006021 …
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Knowing what I know about how state's attorneys make arguments before the court, I am wildly skeptical that that quote is being properly quoted in context.
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I linked to the entire court document. If there is something out of context, I would like to hear it.
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BroadlyJeff: We know this is the strategy. It’s been used in state after state. I guess one could try to defend it—good luck —or claim it hasn’t been that effective. But it’s undeniable that making it harder for Dem voting blocs (non white/students) to vote who *is the intent.*
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I'm not even really arguing with that point! (I might argue with it, but not here and not now.) I'm just saying that people with avowedly bad motivations don't openly confess them before the Court. That's mind-blowing, if it actually happened.
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They were making the argument and affirming that they were discriminating based on political affiliation, in an attempt to show they were not discriminating based on race. It was a conscious legal strategy to admit this.
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This is correct. It was based on interpreting a couple of Roberts-era SCOTUS voting rights opinions to mean that using "Democrat" as a euphemism for "black" was the only fig leaf required to cover up a racial gerrymander. Lower courts didn't read them that way, turns out.
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I think that's right.
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Thing is—it *is* partisan driven voter suppression—it includes college students too—but it disproportionately harms non white people. That doesn’t make it any less ethically disgusting. Can’t do a poll tax/or literacy test anymore, but they do what they can.
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Saw that firsthand. There was a wonderful Sunday voting idea "Pews to the Polls" where African American churches were either walking or providing transportation to the polls after church to vote. After seeing how popular it was, NC abruptly stopped Sunday voting.
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Here's some important information for you, in an easy-to-read-and-understand form.pic.twitter.com/9R7lo5xXU6
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Love this. It is brilliant.
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And the talking point for that little problem is to reach back in history to say that the Democratic party is racist and the Repubs are slave-freers. Don't look at present activity: focus on the demographic a century ago.
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How in the he—???
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I keep wondering when someone will write about this in the terms of how it rips the constitution and our Democratic Republic to shreds. It's not a Republican vs Democratic issue, it's always framed that way, but what it actually is, is one party being willing to destroy the very
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foundation of what a Representative Democracy is all about. If all citizens aren't enabled to vote on the Representation, then you don't truly have a Representative Democracy, in some ways, you have an authoritarian state determining political outcomes, something normally seen in
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authoritarian ran nations. Countries like Russia, Syria, Egypt, North Korea, Iran, where the predetermined outcome has already been created which in fact removes the idea of Representative Republic from the equation. This to me is the biggest issue of our time. Are we a Republic?
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If the very foundation and definition of being a Republic is destroyed even before the moment citizens go to the polls. That's how it needs to be discussed, not in terms of GOP vs DNC which invariably ends up in partisan speeches, when the very essence of our nation is at stake.
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The truth is the blame lies on SCOTUS. Conservatives were never comfortable with any of the amendments made to rectify minority disenfranchisment. So when given the chance to defend these amendments they sort of weakened it. Rather than strengthen it.
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Yes, I agree but the Congress does have the ability to write constitutionally based laws that could overcome these issues, the problem is, getting people in who will do it when we already have a damaged system. We're gonna have to fight like hell to overcome all of this crap.
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