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Tommymac
(7,263 posts)gathering dust in the corner.
Unfortunately we have to live with him and his racist ilk in the now.
turbinetree
(24,701 posts)independent state legislature doctrine.
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=120941
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,628 posts)I can only hope he sees what his decision has wrought
RVN VET71
(2,690 posts)Either that or hes a stupid, stupid man. And I think hes actually quite bright.
History -- assuming there is a history written about this period -- will not be kind to him regardless his other accomplishments on the court. His decision to gut the voting rights act protecting millions of Americans will not wash and there is nothing he seems concerned to do to rectify it.
(But what, sir, can he do? Well, for one thing, he could speak publicly on the mess his decision caused, the injustices it has led to, the virulent racism is has exposed in the GOP at the State and local levels. His silence -- at least his public silence -- affirms his racism.)
bucolic_frolic
(43,161 posts)These are 2 diametrically opposed concepts.
RVN VET71
(2,690 posts)Its analogous to a fundamentalist Christian, adhering strictly to the wording of the Bible, taking his recalcitrant son out to the public square and inviting the citizenry to stone him to death. Deuteronomy 21: 18-21 orders just that. It is, of course, originalist and sane people no longer accept it as law. Not even Evangelicals or Catholics would put into action that which Deuteronomy requires.
I feel this is absolutely analogous to any reading of the Constitution. Originalists? Strict Constructionists? Ill believe in their sincerity when they apply Deuteronomys abjurations to their disobedient children.
CaptainTruth
(6,591 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,231 posts)liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)They will break it!
Ford_Prefect
(7,897 posts)As the others listed above by compromising or eliminating our access to the vote, too.
burrowowl
(17,641 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)sometimes killing. These voter suppresion tactics involve at least 3 of the above.