The Supreme Court Republicans Make America Safe for White Republicans Their decision today is dishonest and shameful .............. Until today’s decision, an assessment of whether a state violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act would begin with a simple question: Is a minority group sufficiently large and compact to form a single member district where they would have a fair chance of electing their candidate of choice? ............... Today Alito says that the Court must reject that 1982 law to avoid a clash with the 14th and 15th amendments. Rubbish. The ratifiers of those amendments engaged in race conscious legislation to protect former slaves. Everyone understood that those amendments permitted race consciousness in order to reverse America’s horrible history of slavery — which still has repercussions today. ................ It will make all our legislative bodies whiter. It will significantly diminish protection for minority voters.
............... Alito’s mission has long been to favor the white Republicans he seems to think he represents, rather than all Americans. His five Republican-appointed colleagues on the Court appear to believe the same thing.
