When the current #SCOTUS first ate away at the #VotingRightsAct a few years ago, the logic they expressed was essentially, "Racism is over, we don't need this anymore."

talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blo proves that we very much do need it: systemic #racism is and always has been an essential feature of the #USA, and #Trump and the #GOP's mission has been to codify it as much as possible.

Never, ever vote #Republican.

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If you read the Court's opinion, that's not AT ALL the logic they expressed in their ruling, either that one or this one.

They based their rulings on what laws said, not whether racism was or was not over.

It's up to lawmakers to gauge whether racism is or is not over and write laws accordingly. The SCOTUS can not and does not write rulings based on that.

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