Yesterday was the 60th Anniversary of the passage of the Voter's Right Act. America has allowed over the last 2 decades the erosion and quiet elimination of the tenets therein. So here we are. Demonstrates the demise of democracy.
Why The Voting Rights Act’s 60th Birthday Might Be Its Last @marcelias
"But instead of anniversary toasts, election law experts are preparing eulogies . . ."
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/why-the-voting-rights-acts-60th-birthday-might-be-its-last/
#VoterRights #CRA #SCOTUS #DEmocracy #Votersuppression #Fascism
That's not how the US government works. The VRA is still fully in effect, and in fact so many of the arguments right now are about how to properly make sure it stays in effect.
No, nobody is going to repeal the VRA.
If you want to make changes to it, well then elect better representatives to Congress that will do that. But the VRA is settled law.
@JaniceOCG I think you're missing the point that they aren't gutting the VRA at all. They are instead moving to implement it on its own terms, saying that the VRA has been misapplied in the past.
No gutting, no vacant shell, here's the VRA, and it's to be applied as our elected lawmakers made the law.
@volkris @marcelias
Well, when you gut a watermelon, you don't go back looking for fruit in the vacant shell.