The Supreme Court rejected the independent state legislature theory in a bombshell decision Tuesday, turning back a right-wing attempt to vest the sole power in administering federal elections with state legislatures.
After Dobbs I legit expected SCOTUS to go full speed ahead turning America into a Christofascist autocracy, but it seems like they’re content to just uphold the status quo outside of that one specific issue. Maybe my standards are dangerously low but it’s nice to know we’re not on the actual worst timeline right now.
As I said in another post, I believe Justice Roberts is trying to haul the reins back from the stampeding conservafascists. Not that his own tendencies don’t lie that way, but he’s widely reported as caring about his legacy, and right now the reputation of SCOTUS for corruption and poor decisions seems to me to be at an all time high. (That is to say, I’m not a deep SCOTUS scholar, just an observer – there might be a time when the organization was worse.)
It was probably a pretty devious and purposeful move. Boil the frog slowly.
What you call “Christofascism” isn’t a special variety of Christian ideology. It is simply the political ideology which says that Christianity should rule. By a fairly precise analogy with Islamism, it should be called Christianism.
yeah I was honestly terrified that starting 2024 we were just fucking doomed, but now it seems like things are finally looking up. DeSantis’ approval rating is in the shitter, and a lot of the anti-trans bills are being blocked throughout the country.
DeSantis could come back if something happens to Trump. I can’t believe I hope Trump doesn’t succumb to all the hamburgers he consumes for a bit longer.
DeSantis would get skullfucked in a national election. He’d go into a debate, say “woke” 300 times in twenty minutes, and immediately his poll numbers would collapse so fucking hard they take the Eastern Seaboard with it.
DeSantis would get skullfucked in a national election.
Especially by Biden.
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Holy SHIT, I actually just gasped out loud. I was genuinely terrified this case was going to be the nuclear bomb that dumped us headlong into full federal fascism in 2024. I can’t believe we got a 6-3 ruling against it.
Seems like SCOTUS wants to keep all the power of deciding what’s best for us poor civilians to themselves and out of the hands of the legislature. I’m not sure that’s ultimately better, but it’s certainly going to slow the demise.
I’m surprised that this isn’t getting more attention. All my parents ever talk about now is the stupid fight against trans people, and yet we were a hair’s width away from polling stations being surrounded by armed guards at every election like what happened with Bolsonaro in 2022.
The insanity in the ruling is that 3/9 justices voted in favor if this nonsense. Seriously. I expected Thomas and Alito, but Gorsuch also voted in favor? These conservative justices need to be replaced.
My understanding is that Gorsuch took issue with standing or some other more technical issue. Thomas and Alito are little more than partisan hacks, but Gorsuch generally maintains consistent principles. He was also a key vote in guaranteeing federal employment protections for LGBT people.
Thomas is really out there in his own orbit. I don’t think his judgements are the result of partisan calculation, rather he just likes being a dick.
I honestly don’t know. Nothing Alito or Thomas has said recently has made any sort of logical or philosophical sense. I think Roberts is trying to preserve some semblance of legacy of unbias with the current court reputation which is why I think he’s sided the past few cases where he has.
could someone tl;dr what exactly this was, and what it would do?
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I could be wrong, but I don’t think the decision would have extended to the actual voting rights. At least directly.
Like they wouldn’t be able to make a law saying that black people can’t vote; after all, it’s only “time, places and manner”, which in no way includes who. But they could make it much, much harder for specific groups of people to vote.
The nightmare scenario was that a highly gerrymandered state legislature could simply ignore the voice of its voters and direct its electors in the Electoral College to vote for a Republican regardless. It is a plausible textualist reading of the Constitution, though obviously very counter to actual practice.
Thomas apparently has brainworms.
No just no ethics or qualms about destroying America as long as he comes out on top.
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Thank fooking christ. Ever since the NYT raised the alarm bells about this being the next big awful decision during the Roe v. Wade overturn, its been in the back of my mind. Glad to see we’re not taking another step away from direct democracy.
There hasn’t been direct democracy for decades. Every major party candidate for federal office has absolute allegiance to the ruling plutocrats. You literally cannot vote against the interests of Goldman Sachs and the oligarchs.
There hasn’t been direct democracy in the USA, ever.
We are not a direct democracy.
