The Supreme Court has just hung the Sword of Damocles over voting rights

[diehardblue]

for the current administration. I am so pissed!

[JoanofArgh]

1. Our democracy is in serious trouble.

[Texaswitchy]

2. People not voting for Hillary or just staying home caused this.

I told people that this election would be the most important election of our life times.

The courts were on the line.

Damn.

[Hekate]

3. Same here

[onecaliberal]

4. We have all three branches right now. What are we doing?

This is nothing compared to what a republicon majority in any branch will foist upon the American people.

[BGBD]

6. What?

We do not. We have two.

[onecaliberal]

8. Is Chuck Schumer the majority leader?

Do we run the calendar?

[BGBD]

9. The House and the Senate

Are not separate branches of government.

Executive
Legislative
Judicial

[onecaliberal]

11. Right. We have the executive and legislative.

We need to pass the legislation we ran on. Expand the corrupt republican court.

[abqtommy]

14. We elected Hillary in 2016 but we lost to the scamming/ratfucking. I hope we've learned

from that.

[joetheman]

16. Many of the progressives still believe Trump was a better choice they hate HRC so much.

Trump was a BITTER choice. And now Democrats and progressives will suffer the consequences for decades. So be it!

[Boomerproud]

5. Go ahead and "celebrate " your freedom on Sunday Pfolks.

I was watching CNN when it broke and I am seething. There's no one but DU I can vent with today.

[Johnny2X2X]

7. Read up on this before reacting

Very limited case, dealt with voting in wrong precincts and who can return absentee ballots for people. Not sweeping case and will have limited applications.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

10. And when California Republicans were using similar ballot harvesting last year

DUers were up in arms about it.

[Johnny2X2X]

12. Yup

This hurts the GOP more than Democrats. GOP used ballot harvesting extensively in 2020.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

13. Isn't that what happened in North Carolina as well?

Didn't someone go to jail or something?

[Fiendish Thingy]

15. In NC, the ballots were harvested, but the votes were changed, IIRC

It was a case of fraud, not just harvesting.

[FBaggins]

17. Not at all limited

The 9th Circuit ruling below hinged on the legitimacy of evaluating a law based on discriminatory impact . That's critical to many if not all) of the VRA lawsuits now pending in many red states. SCOTUS just killed that line of reasoning.

If a state just got rid of early voting on weekends, it's no longer a valid argument that minorities are more likely to use weekends for early voting so the change will have a disparate impact.