Or they could take a case which raises the "evidentiary burden" to sustain the constitutionality of campaign contribution limits, without directly striking them down. That would look better but have the same negative result for our democracy. /7
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But the first step of the battle is educating and organizing about the stakes in the current Supreme Court battle. I've long sounded the alarm: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/supreme-court-greatest-civil-rights-cause … but until Kennedy left few outside law paid attention /18
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I talk about the stakes on voting rights here
@slate: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/justice-kennedys-successor-will-wreak-havoc-on-voting-rights-and-democracy.html … /19Show this thread -
And I've demonstrated what it means for President Trump to appoint another Scalia to the Court on the question of voting rights in great detail in this book on Scalia's legacy https://www.amazon.com/Justice-Contradictions-Antonin-Politics-Disruption/dp/0300228643/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1516904231&sr=8-1&keywords=richard+l.+hasen … /20
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Things may get worse before they get better. Who knows if Thomas will go, and if Ginsburg and Breyer can hold on until there's a new Presidential election. Republicans losing their majority in the Senate might stop appointment of most extreme
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But as I wrote here
@Slate, this is a moment for political action, not complacency, even if the battle against a new Trump#SCOTUS nominee will almost certainly be lost /22https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/trump-will-replace-kennedy-with-a-scalia-clone-only-one-thing-might-stop-him.html …Show this thread -
Political organizing now can help down the line later, as there will be many battles to preserve voting and democracy ahead. It won't be easy, but our country and the promise of what it can be (someday and again), demands that we try. /end
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