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In reply to the discussion: BREAKING: Supreme Court Strikes Down Key Part of Voting Rights Act [View all]John2
(2,730 posts)with this decision at all. I think the Supreme Court overstepped their bounds again and legislated from the Bench. I don't see the justification for the ruling, if it was Constitutional back then, from different Supreme Courts, it should be constitutional today.
The only way for what Congress to did not to be constitutional, is to change the Constitution. Congress gave the DOJ the responsibility to carry out the law. The only authority the Supreme Court should have is to interpret the constitutionality of the law. So how is it UnConstitutional now?
The reason the law was set up this way, was because certain jurisdictions were more abusive than others. Was it the position of the five rightwing Supreme Court Justices, the law did not have mechanisms to relieve these jurisdictions from scrutiny or add jurisdictions to scrutiny based on evidence of serious abuse of voting rights? Was it their opinions, no jurisdictions were added or relieved from scrutiny? If that wasn't the case, then these judges clearly violated their oaths, and overstepped their authority under the Constitution.
I suspect these Judges felt the freedom to do so, because of the make up of the current rightwing Congress. In another Congress, they would not be so safe to abuse their office. If it was a more Liberal, Congress, it would be grounds to remove them from the bench. Only Congress has the right to make laws, the court only interprets the Constitutionality of the laws. The Law only discriminated against Jurisdictions, that showed serious abuse of voting Rights. If I was DOJ, I would still carry out the current law, where jurisdictions showed serious abuse of voting rights. It is not up to 5 rightwing Supreme Court jUstices to determine which jurisdictions have serious voting rights violations.
That the Democratic Congress and Democratic President should do is butt heads with the five rightwing Supreme Court JUstices if they have the balls to do so. That is what you would have if I was the President. What power does the rightwing Republicans in Congress and on the current Court to remove this President? Go Lincolnesque on them.