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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLet's not everybody start loving SCOTUS now.
We can't forget they just destroyed the Voting Rights Act.
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Let's not everybody start loving SCOTUS now. (Original Post)
pnwmom
Jun 2013
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Based on yesterday's decision, I didn't expect this decision at all today.
justiceischeap
Jun 2013
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justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)1. Based on yesterday's decision, I didn't expect this decision at all today.
So, I'm pleasantly surprised that SCOTUS deemed DOMA unconstitutional. That said, they screwed the pooch yesterday big time.
pnwmom
(109,021 posts)2. I kinda did. I think they knew what was coming down with these two decisions,
so they felt that much freer to kill the VRA. They could pat themselves on the back and tell themselves how even-handed they are.
NoPasaran
(17,291 posts)3. Yeah, yesterday you'd think they had handed down Dred Scott
Today they're heroes.
Just the way the wind shifts.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)4. And armed gun nuts to the teeth in the name of corporate profits, resulting in the death of...
...twenty kindergartners plus hundreds of thousands of other Americans.
still_one
(92,492 posts)5. I think most here on DU are pretty realistic about that
Agree.
PB