On Thursday, the Supreme Court upheld two election laws in the 2020 battleground state of Arizona that challengers said make it harder for minorities to vote.
In a 6 ‑3 decision, all of the Conservative hacks, including three appointed by Donald Trump, voted to uphold Arizona’s restrictive voting rights laws.….…..Laws that were passed, mind you, after the big Trump lie after the twice impeached sociopath lied that he won the 2020 elections and goaded his sycophants to try to overthrow the American Government and install him, King.
Writing for the majority, Samuel Alito, yes, the same Alito who during a state of the Union address by President Barack Obama disrespectfully mouthed the words,” not true,” and shook his head as the president spoke.
Alito said the law requires “equal openness” to the voting process. “Mere inconvenience cannot be enough to demonstrate a violation” of the law, he wrote.
Voting law changes may have a different impact on minority and non-minority groups, Alito said, “but the mere fact there is some disparity in impact does not necessarily mean that a system is not equally open or does not give everyone an equal opportunity to vote.”
We are now eyes wide open, seeing the destructive nature of what Mitch McConnell’s blockade of Merrick Garland’s appointment in 2016 means. It allowed a criminal in the white house to appoint three ideologues to the court, tilting the ideological balance so far to the right that it places the Republic in grave peril.
The most nauseating thing about John Roberts is the smug smirk on his face when he infamously stated there are no Republican or Democratic Judges. “Judges like umpires, call balls and strikes,” Roberts lied.
So much for balls and strikes.
Democrats meanwhile are stuck pathetically pandering to a (wannabe president) Joe Manchin, who nobody elected president of the United States, who continue to oppose getting rid of the Senate filibuster, a Jim crow era relic, and is opposed to appointing additional justices to balance the injustice of what Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump did to the Federal Judiciary.
What Alito and the other Republicans on the court failed to take into account is the intent of the law; if the new law intends to disenfranchise some, then even though there may not be anyone standing at polling places with guns preventing Blacks from voting.….….….yet, the people who do not have the requisite resources to meet the more stringent voting requirements, à la minorities, are disenfranchised by default. This is exactly what the restrictive law intended…
This is exactly what John Roberts fought for all of his professional life, to restrict voting rights.
It is difficult to imagine that despite the racist nature of those who crafted this Republic, they envisioned that the very court that was is supposed to steady the ship of state constitutionally would be the very cornerstone that is working assiduously to deconstruct the Republic on ideological grounds.
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Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, freelance writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com.