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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 1d ago
"John Roberts life’s work of repealing the 20th century is essentially complete. What is clear about him is that he is determined to use the Supreme Court to systematically dismantle every outrage against white supremacy and oligarchy that were passed by 20th century congresses and upheld by 20th century Supreme Court majorities:" ~ Joy-Ann Reid #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #GildedAge #JimCrow #corruption /1 https://www.joyannreid.com/p/a-sunday-reid-john-roberts-corrupt
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@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social · 2d ago
Quote in previous post is from complaint in NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN v. JEFFREY M. LANDRY, in his official capacity as Louisiana Governor, and NANCY LANDRY, in her official capacity as Louisiana Secretary of State. https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/1-2026-05-01-Complaint.pdf 2/ #LawFedi #Callais
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 3d ago
"For all the effort that Supreme Court justices put into insisting they are not 'partisan hacks,' when the Court resolves awful democracy cases, elected Republicans have remarkably little trouble understanding what they are supposed to do, and how quickly they are supposed to act." ~ Jay Willis #SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans /1 https://ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/the-republican-justices-want-to-help
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 3d ago
"The all-out sprint to make the 2026 maps at once redder and whiter lays bare the real project of the Callais majority: The Republican justices are trying to help their fellow Republicans win more elections in more places. Every seat counts." #SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans /2
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 3d ago
"While the corrupt majority has consistently advanced and enforced an ideological vision of how the country should be run it has another, simpler brief: not allowing Democrats to govern when they are in power. When Republicans are in power, the powers of the presidency are almost limitless; when it’s Democrats, the office is enfeebled and hemmed in by a cobweb of invented doctrines." ~ Josh Marshall #SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #corruption #Republicans /3 https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/you-can-have-democratic-self-government-or-the-corrupt-court-not-both
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 3d ago
"Each tool was built to achieve through the legal loopholes what could no longer be done openly. Callais is the modern version. The parallels to the Gilded Age are unmistakable." ~ Nadine Smith #SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans /4 https://www.contrariannews.org/p/the-supreme-courts-racist-rerun
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 3d ago
"When the Voting Rights Act was passed, White people in the South, and the party they adopted as theirs, the Republican Party, set out to do everything in their power to dilute and destroy the Voting Rights Act. The right of Black people to vote removed White people’s power to discriminate, so they struck back." ~ Lucian K. Truscott #SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans /5 https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/go-sit-down-and-shut-up-and-do-as
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 3d ago
"Ultimately, the decision in Callais leaves me with a question: Why are conservatives so afraid of democracy? Why are they afraid to let the voters decide elections?" ~ Joyce Vance #SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans /6 https://joycevance.substack.com/p/what-the-court-did-in-callaisand
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 3d ago
"The Voting Right Act of 1965, which removed the ability of governments to put in place facially neutral but clearly discriminatory practices, and in doing so ratcheted up Black registration in Louisiana until it matched White voters. This effect was immediate and enduring across the South. The VRA increased Black political representation." ~ Don Moynihan #SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans /7 https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/power-democracy-and-clarity
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 3d ago
"…which in turn increased Black economic power by opening up previously barred avenues, like public employment. ... What has been the impact of the Roberts Court on democracy? Wealthy people have more political power than everyone else. Partisan actors have more power to reduce voter choice." #SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans /8
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 3d ago
"Black people and other minority groups are offered fewer protections and less visible political representation. ... We are living in an era of unprecedented concentration of wealth and power, an era of extraordinary democratic backsliding." #SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans /9
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