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Pictured are the two most flawed paragraphs in Callais. SCOTUS declares
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Gabriel Malor
@gabrielmalor.bsky.social
Pictured are the two most flawed paragraphs in Callais. SCOTUS declares that *it*—and not Congress—gets to decide what legislation is "appropriate" under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
Which is how we come to today's SCOTUS majority blessing racist gerrymanders bc the VRA is "colorblind."
The maj. op. decided not only that Congress did not mean for the VRA to address racial vote dilution, but that Congress *can never* pass such legislation under the Fifteenth Amendment.
I think it would surprise the crafters of the 15th Amendment that when they wrote "The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation," they had left it up to SCOTUS—and not to Congress in even the smallest measure—to decide what legislation is "appropriate."
@gabrielmalor.bsky.social
Pictured are the two most flawed paragraphs in Callais. SCOTUS declares that *it*—and not Congress—gets to decide what legislation is "appropriate" under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
Which is how we come to today's SCOTUS majority blessing racist gerrymanders bc the VRA is "colorblind."
The maj. op. decided not only that Congress did not mean for the VRA to address racial vote dilution, but that Congress *can never* pass such legislation under the Fifteenth Amendment.
I think it would surprise the crafters of the 15th Amendment that when they wrote "The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation," they had left it up to SCOTUS—and not to Congress in even the smallest measure—to decide what legislation is "appropriate."