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The court ruled Thursday in a 6-3 vote that a set of Arizona voting rules do not violate federal law. Breaking along conservative-liberal ideological lines, the court found that the state's voting policies were not enacted with a racially discriminatory purpose that would have violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Garland announced announced last week that the Department of Justice will sue Georgia over its new voting law, S.B. 202, claiming the measure's voter ID rules violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prevents states from denying or interfering with the rights of Americans to vote on account of their race. Thursday's SCOTUS decision in the Arizona case is a signal that the high court may not buy Garland's arguments. The SCOTUS decision "absolutely" damages the DOJ's case against Georgia," Harvard Professor of Law Emeritus Alan Dershowitz told Just the News."If the Arizona voting decision had come down a month ago, I don't think the DOJ would've issued such a broad-based challenge" to the Georgia law, said the constitutional law scholar.Calling Garland's decision to bring the suit "a mistake," Dershowitz said, "There's a difference between not liking a law and finding it to legitimately be in violation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act."
