John Roberts Said "Things Have Changed Dramatically" in the South. Georgia Shows Why He's Wrong.

[demmiblue]

Voter suppression is not a thing of the past.

“Things have changed dramatically” in the South, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in 2013 when he authored the majority opinion gutting the Voting Rights Act, ruling that states with a long history of discrimination no longer needed to have changes to their voting procedures approved by the federal government.

Voter suppression in Georgia is Exhibit A for why he is wrong.

After Joe Biden carried the state in November and Black voters turned out in record numbers in the January runoffs to elect Democrat Raphael Warnock as the state’s first Black senator and Democrat Jon Ossoff as the state’s first Jewish senator, Georgia Republicans passed a sweeping rewrite of the state’s election laws on Thursday to make it harder for Democratic constituencies to vote and have their ballots counted.

Though some Georgia Republicans, most notably Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, defended the integrity of the 2020 election, the “Election Integrity Act of 2021” heavily restricts mail ballot drop boxes, adds new ID requirements for mail-in voting, throws out ballots cast in the wrong precincts, and makes it a crime to give voters food and water while they’re waiting in line.

In addition to making it harder to vote, the new law allows the GOP-controlled legislature to appoint a majority of members of the state election board and gives the board the power to take over county election boards, making it easier for Republicans to challenge election results, take over election administration in large Democratic counties, and even decline to certify the results if Democrats win close races—which Trump tried and failed to get the state to do in 2020.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/03/john-roberts-georgia-voting-rights/

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Moron needs to look at the 200+- measures the GOP has introduced recently to suppress voting

over the last month or so...

[Hortensis]

2. The day that decision came down states started proving him wrong.

Literally the same day by moving to enact or amend election laws that were no longer subject to review.

And Roberts is not a moron. He knew what side he was on ideologically.

[dalton99a]

3. Roberts is not a friend of civil rights or democracy.

[Dawson Leery]

4. Courts are but unelected legislatures.

This is why voting in every election matters (2014).