Greg Palast
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Last week, Trump-appointed judges permanently barred the NAACP and other private litigants from suing government voting rights violators. Only the government itself may to sue to stop itself from committing gross racial vote suppression — no kidding!!!
12:55 PM - Nov 27, 2023
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Greg Palast
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The ruling by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals literally blesses racist blockades to the Voting Rights Act in 7 states under its jurisdiction (AR, MN, IA, ND, SD, NE and MO). If SCOTUS goes along with this ruling, the whole of the United States will be Jim Crow’d.
12:56 PM - Nov 27, 2023
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Greg Palast
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The court ruled that the NAACP is banned from bringing any suit — ever — for racial discrimination under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The ban also applies to the ACLU (which filed an amicus brief on the side of NAACP) and every other civil rights org in those 7 states.
12:57 PM - Nov 27, 2023
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Greg Palast
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Only the government itself may sue. As it is the government itself which is the perpetrator of the crime of vote suppression, this ruling means that only the perpetrator of the crime may sue itself.

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12:57 PM - Nov 27, 2023
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Greg Palast
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The vote was 2-to-1. The court’s “left-wing” justice, that is, a Bush appointee, dissented. Democracy Docket, the front-line group of voting rights attorneys, called the decision, “catastrophic.”
12:58 PM - Nov 27, 2023
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Greg Palast
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“Catastrophic” is an understatement. In legalese, the ruling bars “a private right of action” against a state discriminating against voters of color under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
12:58 PM - Nov 27, 2023
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Greg Palast
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Will this berserko ruling of the Eighth Circuit survive a Supreme Court review? Two “Justices,” Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas, have already indicated that they would bar a private right of action, that is a voter’s right to action, under the Voting Rights Act.
12:59 PM - Nov 27, 2023
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Greg Palast
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We have more to fear from the men in black robes than the men in white sheets.

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12:59 PM - Nov 27, 2023
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Adam Desrosiers
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this thread is deeply disturbing
12:08 AM - Nov 29, 2023
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