BREAKING: Supreme Court upholds Ohio voter purge law
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Sotomayor's solo dissent reads like a call to arms for voting rights advocates: "Communities that are disproportionately affected by unnecessarily harsh registration laws should not tolerate efforts to marginalize their influence"pic.twitter.com/W3xFlZ4kwH
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In majority opinion, Alito's response to Sotomayor: "Justice Sotomayor's dissent says nothing about what is relevant in this case" and she has "not pointed to any evidence in the record that Ohio instituted or carried out its program with discriminatory intent."
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Note: no one said today's ruling was "narrow" as a result of it being 5-4
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Real question - if voting is a right per the Constitution, would this ruling not apply to gun ownership/registration/background checks? Could states revoke your 2A rights if you do not register every 2 years, reapply for background checks? Gov't takes your guns if not?
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Despicable. This is another victory for voter suppression.
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