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US #Voting reforms needed (among others) NOW

- newly unassailable protections from #1965VRA & #ERA
- nationwide #NonpartisanVotingDistricts
- #SupremeCourt expansion & #Courtreform requiring #StareDecisis on #SettledLaw on which personal, family & state decisions are built

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mcauliff.bsky.social Michael McAuliff @mcauliff.bsky.social · Apr 29
Rep. Raskin (D-Md.) (constitution law prof.) on SCOTUS voting rights ruling.
“The Supreme Court has completed its effective demolition of the Voting Rights Act. The VRA was the crown jewel of the 20th-century civil rights movement.
Ranking Member Raskin’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Decision in Louisiana v. Callais Washington, D.C. (April 29, 2026)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, released the following statement after the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, effectively gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965: “The Supreme Court has completed its effective demolition of the Voting Rights Act. The VRA was the crown jewel of the 20th-century civil rights movement, born from the blood of marchers and freedom riders and repeatedly reauthorized by bipartisan majorities in Congress. In an act of extraordinary and cynical judicial activism, six Justices have now ravaged Congress’s express purposes, rewriting and effectively neutralizing Section 2 of the VRA by demanding the very standard of proof to bring a VRA claim—a showing of intentional racial discrimination—that Congress explicitly rejected in 1982. “The Court has now finished the job that it started by gutting Section 5’s preclearance protections in Shelby County v. Holder. That project is a disgrace to the federal judiciary and a permanent stain on this Court’s legacy. Combined with the Court’s 2019 decision in Rucho v. Common Cause barring federal courts from policing partisan gerrymandering, today’s ruling is a catastrophe for American democracy. Partisan gerrymanders are now untouchable, as are racial vote dilution schemes that shut minority voters out of the political process so long as they are conveniently redesignated as partisan gerrymanders. Republican legislatures across the South are already preparing to carve up and eliminate majority-minority districts at every level of government. The Court has made the world safe for those horrific and racist gerrymanders. This moment is like the end of political Reconstruction in the 19th century. “The bottom line under the Roberts Court is that the deliberate inclusion of a majority African-American or Hispanic district to promote fair representation is a presumptively unconstitutional ‘racial gerrymander,’ while the deliberate destruction of a majority African-American or Hispanic district is perfectly legal if its announced purpose is the expansion and entrenchment of a ‘partisan gerrymander.’ This is a huge defeat for American democracy. “I call for congressional establishment nationwide of nonpartisan independent redistricting commissions to permanently take map-drawing out of politicians’ hands, and for Congress to authorize multi-member congressional districts with proportional representation systems to prevent partisan shut-outs and drown-outs across the country. Congress must act, right now, to pull the country out of the abyss of constitutional double standards and partisan authoritarianism.”
May 12, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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#CuvilRights activist Sherrilyn Ifill joins @allinwithchris.bsky.social to discuss “what’s next” after SCOTUS finally gutted #1965VRA sending #Voter representation for people of color, asians & native Americans potentially back 100 years to rhe Reconstruction Era after the #CivilWar.

#EqualRights
allinwithchris.bsky.social All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · Apr 30
“The Supreme Court has done it again. They’ve once again intervened to pull us back towards the policies of Jim Crow,” @chrislhayes.bsky.social says of the ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act. Civil rights scholar Sherrilyn Ifill weighs in.
Hayes RIPS Supreme Court ruling: Back towards 'policies of Jim Crow'
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April 30, 2026 at 7:59 AM
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"they are getting ready", really? Wadr Pramila, this Re-Confederacy(South-Rising-Machination)has been in the can on shelf since Lee Atwater,Jerry Falwell Sr,Billy Graham,Ed Dobson,Robert Grant&CJ"John Roberts"was sworn in as the "GIPPER's", AWHC&when,all vowed to"REPEAL",the 1964CRA&1965VRA, check✔️?
July 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
figmore.bsky.social
CJ Roberts made a"pinky promise"to the"Gipper(Ron Reagan)"from the time he served as the, AWHC(Asst.WH Counsel)"from 1984-1986, JR's vow was to make it his life's mission to deracinate&shit-can the"1965VRA"along w/the "1964CRA"so,behold my fellow citizens of"HUE",He+the Fab(5)are 80%,fait accompli?
December 8, 2025 at 11:24 AM
figmore.bsky.social
Ic-yall-mi, the Chief Justice of"La Courtsa Nostra"was able to take a"Jim Crow Ax"to the 1965V.R.Act(Shelby County v Holder)where JR&his Fab(5)Five Judicial Activist Entrepreneurs(bench legislators)"GUTTED"an essential(key)provision of the 1965VRA aka, "PRECLEARANCE"so,let the"PURGE&JETTISONS"begin?
July 22, 2025 at 12:14 AM
figmore.bsky.social
Actually jamelle. this obsession of now,CJ John Roberts treks all the way back to his stint as,"AWHC"in the Gipper's Admin(1984-86),Johnny worked"TIRELESSLY"with Lee Atwater,Bill Buckley,Jerry Falwell Sr,Jesse Helms&Strom Thurmond burning the midnite oil to"UNDO"Brown vs Board,1964CRA&the 1965VRA???
July 21, 2025 at 11:59 PM
figmore.bsky.social
The focus on"running 🏃 them better"is not now nor never been the 'modus operandi' nor focus(not D.N.A.able) of the Fmr Reagan(Gipper's)"AWHC(1984-86)in fact,he vowed to the"GIPPER"that, his life mission will be to"DERACINATE& SHIT-CAN"the 1964CRA/1965VRA&,the"FUSILLADE"began in 2013 with"SHELBY"?
D.N.A.able
January 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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@judgeluttig.bsky.social

I’m hoping you will write your opinion on whether SCOTUS is writing #Law or interpreting it.

Thoughts also on whether America is entering another 100-yr period where people of color had the right to vote on paper, but in fact were prevented until #1965VRA?

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April 30, 2026 at 6:24 AM