Supreme Court conservatives poised to uphold Arizona's curbs on voting

[marmar]

(CNN)In a critical voting rights case, conservative Supreme Court justices on Tuesday suggested they were ready to uphold two provisions of an Arizona voting law that Democrats argue violate the historic Voting Rights Act.

Supporters of voting rights are fearful that the court's new 6-3 solidified conservative majority will weaken a key provision of the act that prohibits laws that result in racial discrimination.

For over two hours of telephonic arguments, the justices grappled not only with the Arizona law at hand but with a standard that courts should apply when considering such laws going forward. Lawyers challenging the provisions came under consistent attack in various forms from all of the conservatives on the court who seemed skeptical of the tests put forward by a lawyer representing the Democratic National Committee. ...........(more)

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/02/politics/voting-rights-act-supreme-court-oral-arguments/index.html

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Dump's hateful ways live on. Christ, I despise these people.

[marmar]

2. "Christ, I despise these people."

For real though.

[WarGamer]

3. no surprise

If there's ONE THING that Barf, Goodhair, Scalito, Handmaiden, Sleepy and Roberts can agree on... it's making voting more difficult.

[BlueCheeseAgain]

4. Of all the thing we lost in 2016...

... the Supreme Court was the most heartbreaking.

If Clinton had won (thanks for nothing, Comey), we'd have a 5-4 majority on the Supreme Court right now. (I'm figuring Clinton would have appointed Scalia and RBG's successors, and Kennedy would not have retired.) Most likely, that Court would have outlawed partisan gerrymandering and generally upheld voting rights. Now voting rights are under attack at every level from states to the Supreme Court.

Having said all that, the two laws here are not the worst of them. The real issue is what the Court will say about what's left of the Voting Rights Act in its ruling. At least that's how I interpret the NYT article about this:

The Biden administration, too, told the justices in an unusual letter two weeks ago that the Arizona measures appeared to be lawful. But the letter disavowed the Trump administration’s position that the relevant section of the Voting Rights Act should not be widely used to keep states from enacting more restrictive voting procedures.

[Iliyah]

5. republicans have been chipping away at the voting rights act . ..

since it's conception. It has been difficult in red states regarding voting for POCs but hopefully there will be ways to go around the suppressions and gerrymandering. Also, Urban America are moving away from the republican party.

[Hoyt]

6. Not particularly worried about requiring one to vote in their precinct.

We can make sure people know where to go.

The “harvesting” is more of an issue, although I’m as much worried above white wing harvesting.

Honestly, I think our voters and local Democratic Party organizations are at least as smart, if not smarter, than white wingers.

[dem4decades]

7. It's over Johnny, we're just wondering why the canary died.

[Deminpenn]

8. It's the justices job to ask pointed questions of both sides

ACB got the GOP lawyer to admit his party is "injured" by fair voting.