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Britt @desqatarian.bsky.social · 1h

Britt @desqatarian.bsky.social · 7h

It’s entirely possible that I was being a little too reactive 😭. I should have explored that weird MP3 player world. In college, I had something that looked like it was a Nickelodeon gak case. All of my limewire garbage went on there.

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Britt @desqatarian.bsky.social · 7h

I get you

Britt @desqatarian.bsky.social · 7h

I thought you were referring to the amendment at issue in this case, my bad.

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Britt @desqatarian.bsky.social · 7h

MUTARE DECISIS

aruss updates @aruss-updates.bsky.social · 1d

White woman “in second thought” meme.

Left image with text: Overruling precedent
Right image with text: Tweaking precedent

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Britt @desqatarian.bsky.social · 7h

MUTARE DECISIS

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

The case is submitted.

My prediction is that Section 2 is overturned, 6-3 Kav majority, saying that the Section 2 still *exists* but isn't allowed to do anything.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

THE WHOLE REASON we're arguing the case this year, after it was ALREADY argued last year, is that Roberts couldn't figure out how to get away from the court's own ruling in Milligan. Now, he's figured it out.

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Britt @desqatarian.bsky.social · 7h

That’s very close to Ed *Gein*

Britt @desqatarian.bsky.social · 7h

15th Am

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Britt @desqatarian.bsky.social · 7h

We need to send Justice Jackson a care package. Vitamins, restorative teas, face mask, you name it. She is putting in so much work.

I feel terrible for the three good Justices, but especially Justice Jackson. “You get to join SCOTUS…but it’s the worst one in 150 years”

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Britt @desqatarian.bsky.social · 7h

We need to send Justice Jackson a care package. Vitamins, restorative teas, face mask, you name it. She is putting in so much work.

I feel terrible for the three good Justices, but especially Justice Jackson. “You get to join SCOTUS…but it’s the worst one in 150 years”

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

One of my only remaining joys is that every single time Amy Coney Barrett makes a stupid argument, Ketanji Brown Jackson gets a chance to follow up and illustrate her stupidity.
And this will happen again, and again, for the rest of Barrett's life.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta say, it takes an *amazing* lack of shame for Louisiana to show up to the Supreme Court to make the exact OPPOSITE argument than they made last year in the same case.

I couldn't do it. But I have, you know, intellectual integrity.

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Britt @desqatarian.bsky.social · 7h

🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸

Britt @desqatarian.bsky.social · 7h

Jesús take the wheel

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

Louisiana guy is now trying to pivot to "The FEDERAL government" has no business telling Louisiana that black people get to have political power.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

The fight here with Gorsuch and Kav vs Nelson is whether the "use" of race automatically means "discrimination" on the basis of race.

That's interesting to me, because it's basically the white folks telling on themselves. They cannot see a "use" of race that isn't synonymous with discrimination.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

Nelson: "Section 2 requires neither a confession, nor an accusation of racism. It looks only at results."

This should be the winning point, but it won't, because Republicans.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

Nelson and KBJ are finally to the point where they're arguing thta the 15th Amendment doesn't have a *time limit* and the Voting Rights Act is just the mechanism to make the 15th Amendment work.

Brett and Amy don't actually think the 15th Amendment should be made to work so...

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

Remember, according to the Republican Justices, it's okay to gerrymander for party advantage, not racial advantage. It's an unknowable distinction, but one that allows the Republicans to okay racist gerrymandering under the guise of political gerrymandering.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

Roberts is saying that the court's own precedent from a couple of years ago, where it ruled that Alabama had to draw racial fair maps, doesn't apply to this (identical) case, essentially because the Alabama case was poorly argued.
It's a terrible argument, but the hill Roberts is gonna die on.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

Locking in for oral arguments on the big voting rights case at the Supreme Court.

The next two hours or so will be... incredibly bad.

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Britt @desqatarian.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve purchased a Walkman and a bunch of cassettes.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 3d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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