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When the Supreme Court comes through to do something not fascist, you know the lower court opinion is going to be fucking insane. "Citizens can't sue for violations of the voting rights act."
And the three worst justices agreed. I think they're generally just surprised their fellow conservatives don't get that the movement is going full fascist and they don't need to maintain the veneer of law anymore.
...the veneer wore off long ago, it's just now that the poors are seeing the yellow pine underneath...
Weakens? It completely does away with it. Why would you need the act in the first place if the states were protecting your voting rights to begin with? Who do they think was more than happy to implement Jim Crow laws and rampant racial gerrymandering for fuck's sake? Do you think those same states would then stand up and petition the federal government for violating the act themselves?
...who the hell are you? informed? historically accurate? that won't fly in today's fast-paced, vibe induced world...god rules, not you...
court of appeals now held that private plaintiffs – such as the tribes and the Native American voters – cannot rely on federal civil rights laws to bring claims alleging violations of Section 2.
Weird, I would have thought of the tribes as governmental entities, not a private plaintiff.