In her dissenting opinion, which was joined by Justices #KetanjiBrownJackson & Elena #Kagan, Justice Sonia #Sotomayor blasted the court’s conservative majority for using one set of rules to uphold #redistricting maps that benefit #white voters & #Republicans in states like #Texas while using a completely different set of rules to strike down maps that benefit racial “minorities” & #Democrats in places like #NewYork.
#law #SCOTUS #democracy #VRA #ElectionLaw #gerrymandering #authoritarianism
Carole #Cadwalladr hat es wieder auf den Punkt gebracht. Auch sie bezieht sich wieder auf Vaclav #Havel, um die Ereignisse in #Minnesota zu beschreiben.
Neu war mir, dass NYPD Beamte den #ICE Agenten die Masken heruntergerissen haben um sie zu kenntlich zu machen. Es scheint also noch nicht alles verloren in den #USA. Auch ihr Interview mit #Kagan sagt so einiges aus. Selbst die Politiker haben Angst.
🌀 https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/death-squads-execute-second-dissident
‘Europeans have to understand that it’s over’: historian Robert Kagan on Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’ and the end of the western alliance
#Kagan #Cadwalladr #TheNerve #WhiteSumpremacy #Europe #Threat #USPol
The geopolitics expert, who warned of the president’s authoritarianism a decade ago, tells Carole Cadwalladr how deep the roots of American white nationalism are – and that European governments needs to wake up, fast
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A well-thought-out article by Robert Kagan in The Atlantic about how 'Trump will leave America less prosperous—and the whole world less secure.'
'Americans are so accustomed to this basically peaceful, prosperous, and open world that they tend to think it is the normal state of international affairs, likely to continue indefinitely.
They can’t imagine it unraveling, much less what that unraveling will mean for them.'
Justice #Kagan says #Congress, not the president, had the power to #tax & regulate foreign commerce.
Justice #Sotomayor is pressing the government on the fact that #tariffs are a form of #taxation, which rests in the hands of lawmakers to enact. “It’s a congressional power, not a presidential power, to tax,” she said.
Sauer argues that what is at issue in this case is not the “power to tax,” an authority given to Congress, but the ability to regulate foreign powers.
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中央通訊社 2025-11-03 10:38:00 CST土耳其發現 1250 萬公噸稀土蘊藏，若獲證實，可望成全球第三大蘊藏國。土國正尋求外國技術合作以建立本土產能，目標躋身主要生產國之列，並規劃於 2027 年後投產。Justice #Kagan is pointing out that Section 2 of the #VotingRightsAct is not aimed at preventing #racial #discrimination that comes as an effect of #redistricting, regardless of its intent by map drawers.
“Section 2 is not about intentional discrimination. Section 2 is about effects,” Kagan says.
#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
Nelson pushed back. It’s not #discrimination for states to keep race in mind as they draw voting districts to comply with the #VRA & ensure representation for minority votes, she argued.
Under questioning from Justice Elena #Kagan, Nelson describes as “catastrophic” the impact of Secton 2 of the #VotingRightsAct ceasing to prevent vote dissolution, including in legislative districts beyond #Congress.
#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
The 3 tend to take somewhat different approaches. #Kagan has typically focused on exposing the majority’s shoddy reasoning, #Sotomayor has underscored its complicity in wrong, & #Jackson has placed it within larger systems of oppression. One might think…that everything is as it should be: #SCOTUS takes cases. It hears arguments, & it votes. Those on the losing end dissent. One can read the majority opinion & the dissent, & see reasonable people disagreeing courteously & reasonably.
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