see url:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/08/supreme-court-justice-elena-kagan-arizona-voting-rights
see full report...Making it easier for people to vote, whilst
introducing measures to prevent voter fraud are essential for any
democracy to function efficiently...and it is in tune with the Written
Constitution...That's what democracy is all about...not restricting or
preventing, or making it difficult to vote, because the Retrogressive
Party hasn't got a policy which is popular to the masses of the citizenry...
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The supreme court’s conservative wing considerably weakened section 2 of
the Voting Rights Act, and Kagan didn’t hold back,
There may have been no supreme court decision this year more important
this year than the one in Brnovich v Democratic National Committee.
In a 6-3 ruling that broke down along ideological lines, the court’s
conservative justices upheld two Arizona voting restrictions and
considerably weakened section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark
1965 civil rights law.
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It was an opinion that arrived at a moment of crisis in American
democracy. Republicans have proposed hundreds of measures across the
country that would make it harder to vote. Nonetheless, Samuel Alito,
the conservative justice writing on behalf of the majority, set an
extremely high bar to challenge voting law under the Voting Rights Act
in the future, writing that challengers must prove, among other things,
that a restriction went beyond the “usual burdens” of voting.
In a scorching dissent, liberal Justice Elena Kagan bluntly criticized
the majority’s attack on the Voting Rights Act and the irreparable
damage the court was doing to the foundation of American democracy.
Here are a few key takeaways from Kagan’s opinion:
‘A perilous moment’
While the court’s decision deals with two Arizona restrictions passed
several years ago, Kagan contextualizes the case by raising alarm about
ongoing voter suppression efforts. She decries new laws that shorten
voting hours, impose new requirements to vote by mail, and even ban food
and water to voters standing in line.
“The court decides this Voting Rights Act case at a perilous moment for
the nation’s commitment to equal citizenship,” she writes. “It decides
this case in an era of voting-rights retrenchment – when too many states
and localities are restricting access to voting in ways that will
predictably deprive members of minority groups of equal access to the
ballot box.”
The supreme court has destroyed the Voting Rights Act
Kagan spends a considerable portion of her opinion describing the
history that led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act and the
importance of the law.
Then she accuses her colleagues of damaging it.
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