Donald Trump's SCOTUS must go...

SCOTUS' recent 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais basically takes away the voting rights of minorities, a block of voters traditionally voting for Democrats. It was, of course, down party lines, the kind of results we have seen recently from this gang of Trump worshippers. The six conservative justices have finally completely scuttled their ethics to attempt to pave the way for Republicans to win in 2026 and 2028. Prominent legal scholar Richard Hasen, a law professor at UCLA, said...

"the Supreme Court's 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais 'will go down in history as one of the most pernicious and damaging Supreme Court decisions of the last century.' The case gutted 'what remained" of the Voting Rights Act's protections for voters of color.' Hasen said the decision will not only increase racial gerrymandering, but also strip millions of voters of 'rudimentary fair representation' at all levels of government."

Hasen says you can blame it on Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito...

"who have shown persistent resistance to the idea of the United States as a multiracial democracy, and a brazen willingness to reject Congress’s judgment that fair representation for minority voters sometimes requires race-conscious legislation," Hasen wrote. "It gives the green light to further partisan gerrymandering. It protects Alito’s core constituency: aggrieved white Republican voters. It’s a disaster for American democracy."

In other words, they are paving the way for a future America where people of color have no voting rights. No, I'm wrong, not being able to vote means basically not having any rights at all. And this is just what the Republican Party wants. Hansen isn't finished. In an AlterNet article, he calls Samuel Alito a "coward" ...

"who is either lying to himself or the American public, after authoring what has been called the 'earthquake' decision in Louisiana v. Callais, which sharply erodes the Voting Rights Act."

Here's more on Alito...

Alito tells Roberts, 'We got 'em this time'

"Alito’s 'disastrous' majority opinion in Callais 'essentially gutted what remains of the Voting Rights Act,' but he 'claims to have done no such thing. The question is 'why,' Hasen posits.

Hasen charges that Justice Alito was too 'afraid" to share his actual opinion, and so he found ways to “get away with overturning Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act through technical minutiae rather than through a direct hit.”

"Section 2, passed in 1965, is the provision of the Voting Rights Act that protects minority voters from discriminatory voting laws and maps."

Hansen made this welcomed statement last Wednesday...

"that the Supreme Court just made reforming the institution an 'unavoidable' part of future political administrations."

BAM! I have been saying this since Donald Trump entered his second term and as a jaundiced SCOTUS began to throw everything Trump's way. The six conservatives on the high court are just as maniacal as dufus rump has become with both deteriorating at an astonishing rate of speed. 

These, folks, are the culprits

This decision is especially frightening for my state of Arizona with approximately 360,000 to over 480,000 Black residents, representing roughly 4.4% to 6.3% of the state's total population. And, a substantial and growing Hispanic population, estimated at over 2.3 million, constituting roughly 31% to 32% of the state's total population. Arizona ranks among the top states nationally for its share of Latino residents. The AZMirror says...

“They’ll [Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, or IRC] have more free rein to draw lines, regardless of the impact on racial minority groups’ opportunity to elect representatives of their own choice,” said Bo Dul, a former state election official and lawyer who specializes in election and political litigation at Coppersmith Brockelman in Phoenix.

Mother Jones reported, "The Roberts Court Shows Its True Partisan Colors," in an attempt to make "you think that its latest gerrymandering decision is a mere tweak to the legal rules governing political map drawing." But MJ adds, something that flies in the face of the 15th Amendment, which specifies "prohibition against racial discrimination in voting." And Mother Jones warns, Don’t be fooled...

"This is a counter-revolution. Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act requires that people of color have an equal opportunity to elect representatives of their choice. Wednesday’s decision effectively strikes down Section 2—at least what this Supreme Court had left of it—and takes the country back to the dark days when Black and brown voters in many states cast meaningless ballots, having been diluted and gerrymandered into powerlessness. In the decades since the Voting Rights Act, southern states have sent Black representatives to Congress, state legislatures, and local political bodies because this seminal civil rights law demanded that minority voters have an equal voice in the political process. Congress has repeatedly defended and continued these protections. On Wednesday, a court majority watered them right down to nothing.

"Nothing" is what the minorities get, and if the Republicans have their way this ideology will translate into anything the left wants or deserves. Democrats need to begin building their strength now for 2026 and 2028 and prepare to radically redesign SCOTUS.