Last week’s Supreme Court decision didn’t just undermine the Voting Rights Act. It foreclosed the possibility of any new Voting Rights Act in the future, too.
Which requires either a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress or a convention called by two-thirds of state legislatures, followed by ratification by three-fourths of the states…
…and what part of our oh half century or so of bullshit makes it seem like this is even remotely possible?
Just because it likely won’t happen doesn’t mean it can’t happen. And you seem to have purposefully left out the rest of my sentence: “to enshrine the VRA, etc – of course the states have to ratify which could be a tall order.”
This is the kind of cherry-picking that runs rampant in discourse today and adds literally nothing to the conversation.
Which requires either a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress or a convention called by two-thirds of state legislatures, followed by ratification by three-fourths of the states…
…and what part of our oh half century or so of bullshit makes it seem like this is even remotely possible?
Just because it likely won’t happen doesn’t mean it can’t happen. And you seem to have purposefully left out the rest of my sentence: “to enshrine the VRA, etc – of course the states have to ratify which could be a tall order.”
This is the kind of cherry-picking that runs rampant in discourse today and adds literally nothing to the conversation.