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Offline rangerrebew

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MS NOW: In Voting Rights Ruling, SCOTUS Says Blacks Have No Rights It Needs To Respect
Mark Finkelstein
May 3rd, 2026 2:20 PM
 
 
Paul Butler MS NOW The Weekend: Primetime 5-2-26On last night’s The Weekend: Primetime on MS NOW, legal analyst and law professor Paul Butler delivered an astonishing assessment of the Supreme Court’s recent decision on the Voting Rights Act.

Analogizing it to the Dred Scott decision -- that garbage in heavy rotation -- Butler made the absurd claim:

“It’s like the Dred Scott decision, where the Court said that the black man has no rights that the white man is bound to respect. The Supreme Court is saying that the black voter and the brown voter has [sic] no rights that it respects.”

He also argued the ruling was worse than Plessy v. Ferguson, claiming that Plessy at least required formal equality under “separate but equal,” whereas this decision means “black and brown votes don’t have the same power as white votes.”

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2026/05/03/ms-now-voting-rights-ruling-scotus-says-blacks-have-no-rights
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“It’s like the Dred Scott decision, where the Court said that the black man has no rights that the white man is bound to respect. The Supreme Court is saying that the black voter and the brown voter has [sic] no rights that it respects and.”
 

That author doesn't get it.  He criticizes the Dred Scott decision, which was written by Chief Justice Roger Taney, a democrat.  So, this decision just reaffirms what democrats have held throughout the history of American justice and democrat policy and he's obviously a democrat trying to atone for his party.

Of course, I'm being facetious, mostly, but it's the only response worthy of the stupidity of this article.  It's a theatrical piece of crap targeting the emotions, not reason.
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No one has the right to construct the boundaries of a congressional district purely on race (doesn't matter what race).

I recall when segregation was considered a bad thing.

Now the same people who fought integration in schools are fighting for it in congressional districts?

Make it make sense.
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Make it make sense.

Not if it is coming out of congress! **nononono*
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