Justice Roberts, pay attention to what Brian Kemp did

[DonViejo]

By Eric Schnurer

Updated 8:39 PM ET, Tue November 13, 2018

(CNN) - "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?" the renowned economist John Maynard Keynes was often quoted as asking. This is a question we ought to be asking of Chief Justice John Roberts and Congress in the wake of the 2018 elections -- most notably in Georgia.

The Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder (2013), gutting enforcement of the 1965 federal Voting Rights Act, or VRA, elevated Keynes' supposed dictum to the level of constitutional mandate. The court ruled that the provisions of the VRA, requiring states with histories of voting rights violations to submit themselves to federal preapproval of any changes in voting procedures or electoral rules, were deemed unconstitutional because of changes in the underlying facts.

In Roberts' telling, interference with African-American voting rights in the South was ancient history, successfully swept away by the VRA itself, not to mention a New South where torch-lit Klu Klux Klan marches with Confederate battle flags were things of the past. When the facts change, Roberts asserted, the court must change its mind as to a law's constitutionality.
If Roberts and the court's majority mean what they say, then they need to change their minds again after last week's developments.

Never mind that, in the decade preceding the court's Shelby County decision, Georgia had continued adopting voting changes that the US Department of Justice found discriminatory roughly once every three months.

Since then, Georgia has pursued voting restrictions disproportionately affecting African-Americans and other minorities with renewed vigor: It closed 214 polling places, for example. Then-Secretary of State Brian Kemp took the lead on aggressive voting-reduction efforts, purging the voting rolls of over 1 million primarily minority voters and instituting an "exact match" requirement that removed voters for any clerical errors or misspellings.

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https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/13/opinions/reenact-new-voting-rights-act-schnurer/index.html

[beachbum bob]

1. all the more reasons for democrats to take back control at local and state levels

[brush]

2. Kemp did all that in anticipation of getting an opportunity for himself...

and other repugs in future elections.

If not for his cheating/vote suppression Abrams would be governor of Georgia right now.

[KPN]

3. I would add for the sole purpose of enriching himself via power. In one word:

CORRUPTION.

Repugs is absolutely the the right moniker.

[brush]

5. Yes. CORRUPTION is the word for what the repugs are doing. And on another...

thread someone posted the obvious one word to describe trump.

Sociopath.

There are many others of course (vile, repulsive, corrupt, incompetent, rude, boorish—all of those and more, but to me that sums up the danger he represents to our country and the world.

[KPN]

4. I think I will print and mail this to John Roberts.

[irisblue]

6. Roberts has had it in for the VRA for decades.

source>>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/colorblind-justice-john-roberts-voting-rights-north-carolina/

Now the lower courts are pushing back.
STEPHANIE MENCIMER
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2016 ISSUE

snip. Roberts honed his views on race and voting as a clerk for Justice William Rehnquist, a man who as a court clerk himself had written a memo endorsing Plessy v. Ferguson, the “separate but equal” doctrine upholding segregated schools. On the high court, Rehnquist helped redefine opposition to civil rights laws as a commitment to color blindness, and he used this theory to undermine the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

In 2013, when Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. issued the most far-reaching Supreme Court decision on voting rights in the 21st century, he finally succeeded in gutting a civil rights law he has been fighting his entire career. For three decades, Roberts has argued that the United States has become colorblind to the point where aggressive federal intervention on behalf of voters of color is no longer necessary—and this case, Shelby County v. Holder, was the pinnacle of that crusade.

Long term planning.
You can read the article online.

[mountain grammy]

7. Racism is over when the white Chief Justice of

The United States of America says it’s over.. got that! White supremacy unleashed by the white supremacy court.

[NoMoreRepugs]

8. This.

Unless Democrats can legislate an increase in the number of Supremes the fight for changing the courts might be in the hands of our grandchildren.

[mountain grammy]

14. Agree

[DallasNE]

9. Shelby County v Holder, One Could Strongly Argue

Is a contributing factor in the rapid increase in hate crimes. On that basis alone the Supreme Court should confess that it was wrongly decided and reverse the decision. History has shown how flawed the majority reasoning was making this a political rather than a legal decision with hasty legislating from the bench the result. Roberts should be embarrassed.

[StevieM]

10. He's not. Everything is working out exactly as he intended it to. (eom)

[StevieM]

11. He is paying attention--and he likes what he sees.

Chief Justice John Roberts, like Brian Kemp, is a fascist.

[Farmer-Rick]

12. That

The argument, that things have change enough to stop monitoring, was not the bedrock of the decision to stop preapproval. The stopping of preapproval was the bedrock of the decision.

Basically the argument was just thrown out there to find a way to allow racism and voter disenfranchisement yet again.

[Gothmog]

13. John Roberts is a racist who does not want non-whites to vote