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General Category => National/Breaking News => SCOTUS News => Topic started by: mystery-ak on July 02, 2021, 12:09:57 am
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Kagan rips colleagues in blistering 41-page voting rights dissent
By Alexander Bolton - 07/01/21 12:23 PM EDT
Justice Elena Kagan ripped her conservative colleagues on the Supreme Court on Thursday in a blistering 41-page dissent, accusing them of ignoring the legislative intent of the 1965 Voting Rights Act as well as the high court’s own precedents.
Kagan’s fiery dissenting opinion in a voting rights case, which was joined by the two other liberal members of the court, Justices Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor, accused her conservative colleagues of undermining Section 2 of the landmark Voting Rights Act and tragically weakening what she called “a statute that stands as a monument to America’s greatness.”
“Never has a statute done more to advance the nation’s highest ideals. And few laws are more vital in the current moment. Yet in the last decade, this court has treated no statute worse,” she wrote, in what is likely to become a rallying cry for Democratic lawmakers and progressive activists pushing for election reform laws, including the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, in Congress.
She warned that “efforts to suppress the minority vote continue” yet “no one would know this from reading the majority opinion.”
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https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/561132-kagan-rips-conservative-colleagues-with-blistering-41-page-dissent
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bleep Kagan.
And my apologies to the rest of the forum for my use of foul language.
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As if she really wrote it, got some young liberal flunky to write it for her.
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Here is the ruling in case anyone is interested in reading it for themselves instead of taking the Democrat media's word for it.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/19-1257
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Kagan seems totally oblivious to the fact that the Voting Rights Act was written by a Republican to put an end to Democrat Party racism. Nor is she aware that the Act had overwhelming Republican support, enough to overcome a Democrat filibuster against it.
Kagan is equally oblivious to the fact that it was the GOP that gave us the Fifteenth Amendment, again overriding vehement Democrat Party opposition.
I get Kagan's passion for qualifying the Voting Rights Act as a living, breathing document (similar to her view of the Constitution). She believes that Section 2 can be recrafted argumentatively to target future avenues of discrimination that were not deemed as such in 1965. This is a common tactic of left-wing jurisprudence. However, the entirety of this argument rests on the supposition that minorities are inherently too stupid to know where to go to vote (even though they have been provided a card with the address printed on it). And this to me is overtly racist.
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