A Right-Wing Supreme Court Keeps Pretending Laws Say Things They Do Not
The Supreme Court vaccine mandate cases show how the conservative justices are weaponizing the law to implement GOP politics.
Hasnain says:
“But the Court’s five Republican justices ignored both the clear language and purpose of the law, erecting numerous extratextual bars that make it all but impossible to win a case like this without showing discriminatory intent. As Justice Elena Kagan wrote in an unanswerable dissent, Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion for the Court was a “law-free zone,” basing its holding on “on a list of mostly made-up factors.” (Among them: The majority invented a rule that restrictions on the vote that existed when the Voting Rights Act was enacted should be presumptively constitutional, which, if true, would sort of obviate the purpose of a Voting Rights Act in the first place.) “
Posted on 2022-01-26T04:59:51+0000