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Frodo
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« on: September 30, 2022, 12:21:05 AM »

Let's suppose Democrats against all odds hold on to both the House and Senate this November, with enough seats in the latter chamber to overcome the legislative filibuster, thereby clearing the way for the passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement bill.  Given how the conservative-dominated Supreme Court has been chipping away at the original 1965 Voting Rights Act over the decades until it is effectively rendered null and void, how do we know the same fate doesn't also await its successor by this same court?

John Roberts’s Long Game

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Frodo
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« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2022, 12:43:25 PM »

After listening to oral argument, it is obvious that team Alito is not going to overturn Section 2. The speculative article did not age well.

I am happy that at least some part of the Voting Rights Act will survive this court. 
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