MasqueradeOverture Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 Quote The US Supreme Court has overturned a lower court's decision that found South Carolina's congressional maps were unconstitutionally gerrymandered to discriminate against Black voters. The high court's 6-3 decision on Thursday effectively gives state lawmakers a roadmap for discriminating against Black voters when drafting congressional district boundaries, as long as they can say they were targeting their party affiliation, not their race. Writing alone in a concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas appeared to argue that the nation's high court should not be policing racial gerrymandering at all, going so far as to criticize the court's decision in a landmark case ending segregation in the US as "extravagant." In its monumental 1954 decision in Brown v Board of Education, the Supreme Court sought a "boundless view of equitable remedies" through "extravagant uses of judicial power" to end racist segregation, according to Justice Thomas. He said he wrote separately to address whether established voting rights are "faithful" to the US Constitution. "In my view, the Court has no power to decide these types of claims," he wrote. "Drawing political districts is a task for politicians, not federal judges," arguing that the court's "insistence" on hearing cases involving racist voter suppression "led it to develop doctrines that indulge in race-based reasoning inimical to the Constitution." He argued that the court should "abandon" these kinds of cases and "leave redistricting to politicians." ...... In a fierce dissent that's even longer than the majority's opinion, Justice Kagan wrote that the court had effectively allowed "this 'odious' practice of sorting citizens, built on racial generalizations and exploiting racial divisions," to continue. "Go right ahead, this Court says to States today," she wrote. "Go ahead, though you have no recognized justification for using race, such as to comply with statutes ensuring equal voting rights. Go ahead, though you are (at best) using race as a short-cut to bring about partisan gains – to elect more Republicans in one case, more Democrats in another. It will be easy enough to cover your tracks in the end." Clarence Thomas wants the Supreme Court to stop hearing cases on racist redistricting | The Independent 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discolé monade Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 (edited) and this is why our democracy is a joke. they just keep moving the goal posts. Edited May 24 by discolé monade 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katt_goddess Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 Thomas really needs to look directly in a mirror and acknowledge that his fat ass is indeed black and will always be black no matter how much money people who collect Hitler memorabilia are willing to spend on him. And that if he continues to act stupid, he'll be removed from the court - not because he's a f-ing moron that had no right to be on there in the first place but because he'll have happily removed the rights of black people to vote or hold office or be counted as a full person. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1pooh4u Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 Just think, if Trump wins in 2024 he’ll probably get another scotus pick. The more liberal Justices are getting kinda old. Fuckin nightmare country we’re going to be living in. Days like this makes me glad I don’t got much gas left in the tank. “Leave districting to the politicians” pretty fuckin funny coming from the court that won’t leave medicine to the fuckin doctors, environmental protection to the scientists or body autonomy to anyone with a working uterus that needs it. Fuckin clown court. 4 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katt_goddess Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 12 hours ago, 1pooh4u said: Just think, if Trump wins in 2024 he’ll probably get another scotus pick. The more liberal Justices are getting kinda old. Fuckin nightmare country we’re going to be living in. Days like this makes me glad I don’t got much gas left in the tank. “Leave districting to the politicians” pretty fuckin funny coming from the court that won’t leave medicine to the fuckin doctors, environmental protection to the scientists or body autonomy to anyone with a working uterus that needs it. Fuckin clown court. Awfully optimistic that SCOTUS will survive the entire dismantling of all the things with all power going to Dictator on Day One that is planned as part of that Project 2025 bullshit. Who needs a supreme court when everything is law according to a 3a thumb-twit. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1pooh4u Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 26 minutes ago, katt_goddess said: Awfully optimistic that SCOTUS will survive the entire dismantling of all the things with all power going to Dictator on Day One that is planned as part of that Project 2025 bullshit. Who needs a supreme court when everything is law according to a 3a thumb-twit. Everyone is gonna just have to swallow shit and vote for Biden regardless of how unappealing he is. Project 2025 is scary shit 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpgamer Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 Was that ever not the case? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katt_goddess Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 52 minutes ago, 1pooh4u said: Everyone is gonna just have to swallow shit and vote for Biden regardless of how unappealing he is. Project 2025 is scary shit Yep. It's that and/or hope that King Turd falls off a stage at a rally while doing his shake-weight handjob dance and breaks his neck before November. Biden would be four more years and that's absolutely it because of term limits. King Turd has no intention of ever leaving office again and using military might to stay there. I've basically been telling people to vote democrat even if they aren't thrilled by it because at least you can vote a dem out of office the next cycle if they suck. You pretty much need a gallon of RAID and giant tweezers to remove republicans from office when they lose. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1pooh4u Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 2 hours ago, katt_goddess said: Yep. It's that and/or hope that King Turd falls off a stage at a rally while doing his shake-weight handjob dance and breaks his neck before November. Biden would be four more years and that's absolutely it because of term limits. King Turd has no intention of ever leaving office again and using military might to stay there. I've basically been telling people to vote democrat even if they aren't thrilled by it because at least you can vote a dem out of office the next cycle if they suck. You pretty much need a gallon of RAID and giant tweezers to remove republicans from office when they lose. I was just going to leave my choice for president blank but now I’m like I might have to eat shit and vote for him because NYS might not be a gimme for Biden. I mean probably it is. Trump held a rally in the South Bronx and turnout was abysmal. Mostly people from not the Bronx showed up. There probably was only 1000 people there from pics I saw but how many votes would he really need from NYC to take the state? Since that involves math, I have no idea, but my gut doesn’t feel good about it. I don’t want to leave it blank and then Trump wins NY. Voting for Biden is not something I want to do at all but Trump taking office is gonna fuck over a lot of people. I hate it but I have to ignore his enabling of mass death and destruction because my priority has to be what’s best for the country I live in. I hate it. I don’t want to fuckin do it. I’m pissed off about it. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insipid Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 They coming after miscegenation, ole Thomas with a white wife, if you keep it up like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_lost_username_ Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 On 5/24/2024 at 8:24 AM, discolé monade said: and this is why our democracy is a joke. they just keep moving the goal posts. The Supreme Court is probably the least democratic institution we have. I don't think they should be directly elected or anything but there should be some sort of term limits in place and a limit to how many justices a single president can appoint per term. If Trump is president again and the court decides he has full immunity, he could just have the three liberal seats and Roberts taken out by Seal Team 6 and appoint a bunch of 20-year-old MAGAs to the seats. He's every accelerationist's wet dream in that regard. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_lost_username_ Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 Up next, Thomas gives his opinion on why he'd side with the majority on Dred Scott and then hands himself over to the descendants of the people who owned his G-G-G-grandparents to spend the rest of his life in servitude. Dude would probably do it no matter how stupid that sounds. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katt_goddess Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 18 hours ago, ZoomBubba said: Up next, Thomas gives his opinion on why he'd side with the majority on Dred Scott and then hands himself over to the descendants of the people who owned his G-G-G-grandparents to spend the rest of his life in servitude. Dude would probably do it no matter how stupid that sounds. Naw, you are completely discounting how he'd first rule that revitiligo is a real disease and that he's a victim of it and therefore actually the chalkiest of chalkcausians. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discolé monade Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 5 hours ago, katt_goddess said: Naw, you are completely discounting how he'd first rule that revitiligo is a real disease and that he's a victim of it and therefore actually the chalkiest of chalkcausians. i thought, at first, that you were making a reference to his ashen appearance. (that lotion isn't going to put itself on) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katt_goddess Posted May 30 Share Posted May 30 21 hours ago, discolé monade said: i thought, at first, that you were making a reference to his ashen appearance. (that lotion isn't going to put itself on) I pay as little attention to his appearance as possible because he gives bullfrogs a bad name. Squidbillies reference - Early would refer to white people as chalkies and honestly, I can't use that term enough. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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