The #ExtremeRight is always railing against #immigration. But when they are the descendants of #immigrants who absolutely misstreated #indigenous populations for decades and that attempts are made to make up for these long periods #social and #political #injustice, they are the first to rail against so-called #RaceBased policies, because that would be #racism. But this is also then that these #ideologies reveal best what they are really about.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/14/new-zealand-guaranteed-maori-council-seats-slashed-more-than-half

Guaranteed Māori seats on New Zealand councils to be slashed by more than half

Controversial law change that forced councils to put the fate of Māori wards to a public vote saw 25 vote to disestablish the guaranteed seats

The Guardian

@GottaLaff

The Alabama government’s briefs before the three-judge panel in September referenced a concurring opinion by #Kavanaugh that questioned whether “race-based redistricting” can “extend indefinitely into the future.”

Alabama further relied on arguments — also rejected by the U.S. District Court — that a subsequent U.S. Supreme Court decision this same term ending affirmative action in college admissions (called Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard ) compels the Court to find that a state’s use of a map in which “race predominates” now violates the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection.

As in Milligan, Kavanaugh filed a concurrence in Students for Fair Admissions, emphasizing the potential for #time #limits on race-related policies.

In addition, there now appears to be a significant connection between Alabama’s post-Milligan map redrawing process, #Leo’s powerful national dark money network, and Kavanaugh.

The tangled web of previously unreported ties centers around #Marshall, Alabama Solicitor General Edmond #LaCour — dubbed “the architect behind Alabama’s voting rights defiance” — and the D.C.-area law firm #ConsovoyMcCarthy, the firm founded by William #Consovoy, a now-deceased former clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas who represented Shelby County in Shelby County v. Holder.

In Shelby County, the Supreme Court invalidated Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act and its vital preclearance provision, which protected against unilateral state changes to voting rights and maps in states that had a documented history of racial bias in administering elections in order to disenfranchise Black voters.
#LeonardLeo #scotus #darkmoney #clarencethomas #FedSoc #ShelbyCountyVsHolder #VotingRightsAct #racebased #affirmativeaction