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OUR COMMON GROUND<p>:coffeev60: ✊🏾 <br>"If Donald Trump is playing king, Roberts is his court jester."</p><p>"More than a decade later, it’s obvious that not only was Roberts out of his mind, but also that his doe-eyed ignorance about the level of racial progress since 1965 has actively enabled the country’s current backward slide into Jim Crow." - <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@AngryBlackLady" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>AngryBlackLady</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/03/10/analysis-you-can-blame-john-roberts-for-our-countrys-legal-shitshow/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/03/10</span><span class="invisible">/analysis-you-can-blame-john-roberts-for-our-countrys-legal-shitshow/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/VoterSuppresion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoterSuppresion</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/VRA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VRA</span></a> <br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BlackMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/JohnRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnRoberts</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coup</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AlabamasGottenMeSoUpset" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AlabamasGottenMeSoUpset</span></a>: By requiring <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/preapproval" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>preapproval</span></a>, the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/VRA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VRA</span></a> sought to prevent <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/discriminatory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>discriminatory</span></a> practices from going into effect in the first place.<br />In 2013, however, the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> in <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ShelbyCounty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ShelbyCounty</span></a> v. Holder struck down the framework that determined which <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/jurisdictions" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>jurisdictions</span></a> were subject to the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/preclearance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>preclearance</span></a> requirement, effectively gutting this key <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/enforcement" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>enforcement</span></a> measure.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/corruptrobertscourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>corruptrobertscourt</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/JohnLewisVotingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JohnLewisVotingRightsAct</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/StateVotingRightsLegislation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StateVotingRightsLegislation</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.naacpldf.org/why-state-and-federal-voting-rights-legislation-go-hand-in-hand/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">naacpldf.org/why-state-and-fed</span><span class="invisible">eral-voting-rights-legislation-go-hand-in-hand/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/EnforceThe15th" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EnforceThe15th</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p><a href="https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/u-s-supreme-court-rules-alabamas-congressional-map-violates-the-voting-rights-act-by-diluting-black-political-power" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aclu.org/press-releases/u-s-su</span><span class="invisible">preme-court-rules-alabamas-congressional-map-violates-the-voting-rights-act-by-diluting-black-political-power</span></a> </p><p>the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/court" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>court</span></a> also affirmed that under Section 2 of the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/VRA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VRA</span></a>, <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/race" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>race</span></a> can be used in the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/redistricting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>redistricting</span></a> process to provide <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/equalopportunities" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>equalopportunities</span></a> to communities of color and ensure they are not packed and cracked in a way that impermissibly weakens their <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>voting</span></a> strength.<br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/EndTheFilibuster" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EndTheFilibuster</span></a></p>
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