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“They are OK with using race to hurt people. They are not OK with using race to help people who are actual victims of racism.”
The argument is so specious a third grader could call it out. But if it comes from the Supreme Court majority, we are forced to consider it as serious.
“It’s been the mission of the conservative justices on the Supreme Court to roll back things like the Voting Rights Act for 30 or 40 years.”
Voting: Everyone gets a voice; that’s what makes us different, special and better. Is that ideal being subverted? Or have we misunderstood it all along?
“People will…use the filing of the lawsuit itself as its own form of proof, even though the lawsuit itself doesn’t contain proof.”
“The problem isn’t what people believe. It’s translating majority opinion into majority rule.”
“The Republicans have turned their entire apparatus, not into improving people’s lives, but into taking away their right to vote.”
Janine Jackson interviewed the ACLU’s Jamil Dakwar about human rights and the United States for the November 10, 2023, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
“If you’re talking about social justice issues, progressive issues, political issues, you need to be centering disability justice.”
The right-wing press jumped on the Politico report as a way to sully Abrams as she runs to the electoral finish line.
The focus on Trump obscures the even more important story that Trump represents: the GOP assault on democracy.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for journalists to take responsibility for their own role in the withering of democracy.
Things You Never Expect Michelle Kosinski, a TV journalist who’s served as CNN‘s White House reporter and a foreign correspondent for NBC, posted a tweet (5/8/21) that declared: As an American journalist, you never expect: Your own govt to lie to you, repeatedly Your own govt to hide information the public has a right to […]
Despite Republicans’ obvious—often explicitly stated—goal of rigging future elections more successfully than they have in the past, many of those national media outlets can’t give up their commitment to both-sidesing the story, giving cover to the anti-democratic campaign.
“A lot of people are covering this as a normal debate, and it’s not a normal debate; it’s an effort to try to overturn the election by other means.”
Do elite media think that whether or not the US, in 2021, under pressure from racists, goes back on the whole “one person one vote” thing is a legitimate topic for debate?
“The number of ballots that they might be able to throw out…[is] really small, and it’s not likely to jeopardize or change the outcomes in these elections.”
“Bureaucratic violence, that’s the array of policies that have been pooled together to figure out, ‘How do we get around the 15th Amendment, while targeting those that the 15th Amendment was designed to protect?’”
Election Focus 2020: “The Wisconsin opinion seemed to signal that Republicans can do whatever they want to make voting more difficult, even in a pandemic, and the Supreme Court’s going to say, ‘That’s OK.’”
Election Focus 2020: With projections that the COVID-19 crisis isn’t going away any time soon, what will this mean for voters’ access to the polls, and the very legitimacy of the November 3 election?
