Ari Berman
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GOP appointed justices lose.
Their dissent often becomes the basis to be in the majority the next time this kind of case comes around.
Absolutely.
Because I don't think anyone believes that Amy Coney Barrett and John Roberts are strong proponents of mail voting to such an extent that they'll save mail voting no matter what happens.
I mean, you look at the cases on the Voting Rights Act, you look at other disputes over voting, it's almost always six to three.
It's almost always the six Republican appointed justices in favor of whatever law is being backed by them.
the Republican Party, and it's almost always the three liberals dissenting.
And that's generally how these cases go.
Now, in the mail ballot dispute, it was 5-4 with Barrett and Roberts breaking with their conservative counterparts.
But generally speaking, that is the aberration, not the norm.
The Louisiana versus Calais decision in late April was a death blow to the Voting Rights Act because the Roberts Court has already weakened the Voting Rights Act.
on numerous occasions.
It said that states with a long history of discrimination no longer needed to approve their voting changes with the federal government.
In the 2013 Shelby County versus Holder decision, it then made it much harder to strike down laws that discriminate against minority voters when it comes to casting a ballot in a 2021 decision.
And now they've basically struck down the creation of majority minority districts.
in which Black voters or other voters of color can elect their candidates of choice.
And we've already seen in the wake of that decision a mad scramble by Southern states, places like Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, to redraw their maps to reduce Black representation before the midterms.
Well, I'll just give you an example of what happened in that Supreme Court decision.
They struck down the creation of a second majority black district in Louisiana that went from Shreveport to Baton Rouge, the state capital.
And what will happen now is voters in those districts, instead of being able to
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