Friday, July 9, 2021

Conservative justices make it clear: they won’t stop anti-democratic voting laws | US news | The Guardian

…Justice Elena Kagan, writing in dissent for the court's three liberal justices, is unsparing in her criticism of the majority opinion. She accuses Alito and her five other colleagues of writing in a "mostly law-free zone". The five factors Alito lays out, Kagan says, are "mostly made up". More fundamentally, Kagan writes, the court's majority turns a blind eye to how voting discrimination actually works. One of the most powerful voter suppression strategies is to pile small inconveniences on top of one another to the point where it makes it nearly impossible to vote…


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