Monday, August 04, 2025

Supreme Court Just Signaled Something Deeply Disturbing About the Next Term

Richard L. Hasen: A technical briefing order in a long pending case out of Louisiana, posted on the court's website after 5 p.m. on a Friday in August, was ominous.

Posted by retort at 02:38 PM | 3 COMMENTS | permalink

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My New One at @slate.com on the Supreme Court Potentially Killing the Remaining Pillar of the Voting Rights Act: "The Supreme Court Just Signaled Something Deeply Disturbing About the Next Term" slate.com/news-and-pol ...

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-- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) Aug 4, 2025 at 10:28 AM

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You only have the right to vote for who we tell you to.

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-04 03:45 PM

Democracy is so pass in America... we aren't really a democracy anyway, just ask a Trumper.

Or ask Thomas Jefferson:

"The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations."

- Thomas Jefferson

Sorry, Tom, it's ended as of now.

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-04 04:01 PM

passe

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-04 04:02 PM

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