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W_HAMILTON

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7. This Supreme Court would have sliced up the John Lewis Voting Rights Act as well.

Reply to walkingman (Reply #4)

Wed Oct 15, 2025, 05:58 PM

Oct 2025

I'm sort of glad we didn't eliminate the filibuster so that the next time we have a trifecta, we can use it as a blitzkrieg to expand the courts and Supreme Court. That's the only short-term way out of this.

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If or when they gut the Voting Rights Act is there [View all] Tribetime Oct 2025 OP

I wish JBTaurus83 Oct 2025 #1

This message was self-deleted by its author Tribetime Oct 2025 #5

K&R for, this, and a couple of other questions: UTUSN Oct 2025 #2

Elias says it could come down in January Tribetime Oct 2025 #3

I'm white and I grew up in the Deep South under Jim Crow. walkingman Oct 2025 #4

This Supreme Court would have sliced up the John Lewis Voting Rights Act as well. W_HAMILTON Oct 2025 #7

LBJ re the VRA, "We've lost the South for a generation." - and counting. UTUSN Oct 2025 #9

I also find this very interesting. Here is my opinion... walkingman Oct 2025 #11

Ur totally *on*! - When KRASNOV came down the danged escalator in '15 UTUSN Oct 2025 #13

Support California's Prop. 50 and any other state in the union that is doing likewise. We are doing this for you... Hekate Oct 2025 #6

We could need 20 more seats after the 5 from California Tribetime Oct 2025 #8

They will gut it, and we'd need to gain 19 extra seats after the new gerrymander Arazi Oct 2025 #10

Well, we better start now.Cause this supreme court is crooked Tribetime Oct 2025 #12