"... Late Wednesday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court — with three of its six-member conservative majority appointed by a racist president who routinely calls Black and brown members of Congress “low IQ” — grabbed that moral arc and twisted so hard that it broke.
"Its 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais — destined to join Dred Scott v. Sandford, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Korematsu v. United States in the SCOTUS hall of shame — struck down a Louisiana congressional map that created a new Black-voter majority district. The majority opinion by conservative firebrand Samuel Alito tried to argue that they were saving the 1965 VRA by destroying it, that political maps like the ones that currently have 23 Black House members from the former Confederacy are essentially racist — because they discriminate against white people. [snip]
"If a corrupt and broken Supreme Court insists on playing partisan politics, then we need partisan politicians to bring them to heel. Expand the court to 13 justices, impose term limits, and investigate and impeach any justices who broke the laws about gifts or anything else.
"Radical steps? You bet, but the alternative is allowing a kangaroo court to finish the job of dismantling the American Experiment, of turning a dream that became a lie into something worse. We can’t bend the arc of the moral universe until we grab it back from the people who stole it." -- Will Bunch, Philadelphia Inquirer, from a must-read op "SCOTUS Gutting 1965 Voting Rights Act is a Wake-up Call From a Dream." If we don't get Democrats back into power with the guts, aggressiveness, and vision to do what Bunch calls for, we will lose what's left of our democracy (and it will be gone if the only party standing up for it refuses to take the "radical steps" needed). While they're at it, we also need a thorough-going reform of the judicial system, including eliminating the ability to shop for judges and streamlining appeals so that justice isn't delayed and justice isn't denied (see Trump, Donald).
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