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electing Previous Guy steps us back into the 1960s as voting rights receded today [1]

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Date: 2023-11-21  

Like the new season of Fargo, Hell is coming in a handbasket. Make Argentina Great Again as its new President Milei has proposed allowing organs to be bought and sold on the free market. And yeah, that hair. Fascism is coming in many forms for 2024 and the GQP will be the party of Dark Triads. And voting rights as protected from the 1960s are almost all rolled back like Walmart prices.

On Monday, a three-judge panel with the US Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit upheld a lower court ruling that determined that citizens and groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and the NAACP cannot legally challenge discriminatory state and local election laws. According to two of the judges on the panel, only the US Department of Justice can do so. Michael Li, senior counsel with the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, called the decision “so unmoored from precedent that even the current ultraconservative Supreme Court is almost certain to reverse it.” Under the lastest decision, voters facing discriminatory laws would have to rely only on the Justice Department to take up their case. If a highly politicised Justice Department under a Republican president hostile to voting rights declines, “minority voters would be out of luck,” Mr Li wrote. “The result would be catastrophic.” www.the-independent.com/...

Members kneel in prayer prior to a 12th round of voting for a new Speaker of the House of Representatives, on the fourth day of the 118th Congress at the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6 in Washington. (CNS/Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein) www.ncronline.org/...

x Is Tuberville delaying military promotions in case Trump wins so Trump can insert sycophants into military leadership roles and be unimpeded by military when he declares martial law? — Margo 👀👂 (@margo94) November 22, 2023

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