#callais — Public Fediverse posts

Johnimandering: when judges ignore the law and make racist, partisan election rulings confirming they have hoods matching their robes

see also: #JohnCrow

Edit: adding #Johnimandering as hashtag

#USSupremeCourt #Callais #RhymesWithKKK

#USpol #VotingRights #EqualRights #VRA #JohnLewisVotingRightsAct

Following the US Supreme Court's decision in Louisiana v. Callais that gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, this Alabama Values briefing provided legal, historical, and present-day context to help make sense of this moment. Panelists unpacked the state-level impact, what’s next, and where community members can tap in.
#Callais #Alabama
https://www.youtube.com/live/PHXyOaObL7M?si=k3r8-Jw4koqVbM0N

Jesse Lee: "(Chief Justice John) Roberts is a Republican operative and a crook and it’s really time to stop pretending otherwise."
#SupremeCourt #Callais #SCOTUS #racism #injustice #politics #character #ethics

Micah Erfan: "Modern Supreme Court doctrine is incredibly easy to understand:
- If it helps Republicans, it’s legal.
- If it hurts Republican, it’s illegal."
#SCOTUS #racism #injustice #Callais #politics #VotingRights

Jonathan Martin: "The Supreme Court may argue, in gutting the Voting Rights Act, that they’re creating race-neutral districts. But the practical reality of what this means is staring political leaders and, more to the point, Black voters in the face: white Republicans fracturing African-American districts to unseat mostly Black Democrats so they can elect more white Republicans."
#SCOTUS #racism #injustice #Callais #politics #VotingRights

Rep. James Clyburn said: "Be careful What you pray for. Republican gerrymandering could backfire":
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/james-clyburn-gerrymander-republicans-careful-what-you-pray-for_n_6a009edae4b0cb033e522880?origin=home-latest-news-unit
#politics #racism #redistricting #Callais

Justin Pearson: "What happened in the State of Tennessee was the largest and swiftest disenfranchisement of Black people that we've seen in at least a century. It's on all of us to organize, mobilize, and participate in bigger numbers than their maps account for."
#politics #inspiration copy: @renewedresistance #SCOTUS #injustice #racism #Callais

FOR YEARS, SCotUS would force black & brown people to vote in unfair systems because it was too close to an election.
NOW, SCotUS sees their fav fascists about to lose this election, and they not only HALT AN ELECTION IN PROGRESS but they tell LA, others, go ahead, we won't stop you, hurry (to stop the whites from losing)!
And he has the gall to claim they're not policital?
#RobertsCourt #DredScott #Callais #decision #supreme #kangaroo #court #JohnRoberts #fascist #USA #Alito #flag #DEI

Was watching Democracy Docket, w smart guests. Two things:
1) The #Callais decision is for minority representation what the #DredScott decision was for citizenship & due process (so #Congress passed the 14th, 15th #Amendments). The fix here is a slog.
2) Marc Elias predicts GOP attacking white districts if represented by a minority. They'll claim that SCOTUS has backed them up, which is true.
#fascist #USA #GOP #KKK #SCotUS #decision #dissent #VotingRights #democratic #representation #DEI

The Sargent-at-Arms blocks Tennessee State Representative Justin Pearson of Memphis from entering a legislative committee meeting about redrawing that state's electoral map — specifically for *the district he represents*. The measure to approve the effective elimination of the state's only majority Black voting district — replacing it with five new majority White Republican districts — follows last week's Roberts-Alito Court ruling abolishing the remaining provisions of the Voting Rights Act.

Image by photojournalist Nicole S. Hester at The Tennesseean. When history books are legalized this photo will be in them.

#lostCause #newWhiteSouth #newJimCrow #Callais #VRA

NOW PLAYING == American Democracy Minute Episode 1027: #Maryland Passed Its State Voting Rights Act 24 Hours Before the #SCOTUS #Callais Decision

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tbnJloSJQg

#news #civics #uspol #education #activism #elections #votingrights #WeThPeople #civilliberties #dmv #md #democracy #GetBusy #LearnSomething #vsn #radio #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #PacificaRadio

This, precisely, is the problem:
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/america-becomes-outraged-only-when?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
#scotus #votingrights #vra #dei #louisiana #alabama #votersuppression #gerrymandering #rigged #cherrypicking #mlk #callaisrequirements #callais #minorityrepresentation #reconstruction #justiceelenakagan #nikolehannahjones #attackondemocracy #votingrightsact #civilwar #confederacy #southernstrategy #supplysideeconomics #trickledowntheory #race #gender #socioeconomicstatus #educationallevel #obbb #nabj #project2025 #heritagefoundation

"These are monumental decisions that are happening, that are rolling back where we are as a country." ~ Olivia Troye #SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy mastoreader.io?url=https%3A...

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"These are monumental decisions that are happening, that are rolling back where we are as a country."

~ Olivia Troye

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy

https://mastoreader.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fc.im%2F%40cdarwin%2F116520002841692435

@wdlindsy
"These are monumental decisions that are happening, that are rolling back where we are as a country."

~ Olivia Troye

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy
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NOW PLAYING == American Democracy Minute Episode 1025: Louisiana v. #Callais Didn’t Just Affect VRA Section 2 Protections for Black USians https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4hJiV_fWOA#news #civics #uspol #education #activism #elections #votingrights #WeThPeople #civilliberties #democracy #GetBusy #LearnSomething #vsn #radio #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #PacificaRadio

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NOW PLAYING == American Democracy Minute Episode 1025: Louisiana v. #Callais Didn’t Just Affect VRA Section 2 Protections for Black USians

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4hJiV_fWOA

#news #civics #uspol #education #activism #elections #votingrights #WeThPeople #civilliberties #democracy #GetBusy #LearnSomething #vsn #radio #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #PacificaRadio

"The Trust gave $153 million to Leo’s Rule of Law Trust in 2021. The Rule of Law Trust gave $36.3 million in grants to allied organizations in 2020 alone, with the Concord Fund — formerly the Judicial Crisis Network, the organization that ran the campaigns to confirm Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett — as the largest single beneficiary."

#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #corruption #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo #DarkMoney #oil #gas #FossilFuel #BigOil
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"Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has tracked the pipeline across multiple investigations. Leonard Leo’s Marble Freedom Trust, established in 2020, controls a $1.6 billion dark-money fund."

#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #corruption #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo #DarkMoney #oil #gas #FossilFuel #BigOil
/5

"The seats from which Roberts now operates this mechanism were purchased. I use the word with care. They were purchased through a documented dark-money pipeline that runs from the fossil fuel industry through the Republican Attorneys General Association and the Federalist Society‘s network into judicial confirmation campaigns. The receipts are public."

~ Mike Brock

#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #corruption #FederalistSociety #DarkMoney
/4

https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-industrys-court-in-a-stolen-republic

"People often forget that the economically and politically corrupt Gilded Age and the vicious, apartheid Jim Crow era occurred at the same time, in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War and following the collapse of Reconstruction. The two ill systems fed and needed each other to survive."

#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #GildedAge #JimCrow #corruption
/3

"civil rights, voting rights, affirmative action, the admission of nonwhite immigrants, workers rights, environmental care, the secularization of American society, women’s liberation through the right to access contraception and abortion, and LGBTQ rights."

#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #GildedAge #JimCrow #corruption
/2

"John Roberts life’s work of repealing the 20th century is essentially complete. What is clear about him is that he is determined to use the Supreme Court to systematically dismantle every outrage against white supremacy and oligarchy that were passed by 20th century congresses and upheld by 20th century Supreme Court majorities:"

~ Joy-Ann Reid

#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #GildedAge #JimCrow #corruption
/1

https://www.joyannreid.com/p/a-sunday-reid-john-roberts-corrupt

Dr. Martin Luther King: “Keep the fires of freedom burning in our hearts, so that no matter what happens, ain’t gonna let nobody turn us around. Thou has sent us to fight, not just for ourselves, but to fight for this nation so that democracy might exist here for the whole world.”
#inspiration #GoodAdvice copy: @renewedresistance #politics #SCOTUS #injustice #Callais
Picture and quote via Bernice King.

"This week’s ruling was not a one-off. It’s the logical endpoint of a decades-long effort to disenfranchise minority voters and keep minority representation to an absolute minimum.

The three longest-serving conservative justices on the court right now have a combined 75 years on the bench. This is their pet project. They own it."

~ Bryan Tyler Cohen

#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #JimCrow #Republicans #Callais
/12

https://plus.briantylercohen.com/p/scotus-just-gutted-the-voting-rights

"A multiracial democracy cannot be defended by a narrow constituency. It requires a broader, deeper coalition that spans race, gender, class, geography, religion, and identity."

~ Bryan Fair

The purist games that play minority community against minority community — games to which progressives all too easily coalesce: these play the game right-wingers want to see played.

#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #JimCrow #Republicans #Callais
/11

The Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Ruling Is Results-Driven Cynicism, Not Law

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/01/the-supreme-courts-voting-rights-ruling-is-results-driven-cynicism-not-law/

"The system we have today is awash in corruption, and absolutely everyone knows it. None of this can be solved through optimistic messaging and can-do spirit. We might as well start thinking about what we replace it with, because the center, as-is, cannot hold much longer."

~ David Karpf

#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
/18

https://davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/on-institutional-legitimacy-and-phantom-limbs

"Some people have never gotten over it—and six of those people sit on the Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts has made it his lifelong crusade to oppose the Voting Rights Act and its democratization of political power. ...

On Wednesday, Roberts and his cabal of ruling Republicans finally completed their quest to suppress the strength of the emerging non-white majority in this country."

#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
/17

"[The Voting Rights Act] is the law that freed this country from apartheid. ...

The VRA did not remove white supremacy from politics; it opened a door, and Black political power flooded into the whites-only space of the US government. … The story is similar for women.

~ Elie Mystal

#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
/16

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/supreme-court-demolishes-voting-rights-act/

"In the summer of 2016, during the presidential campaign season, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton warned us about the Supreme Court and the damage that electing Donald Trump would do if he had the chance to nominate SCOTUS justices, and that is exactly what has happened."

~ Pamela Hilliard Owens

#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
/15

https://www.wearespeaking.net/p/the-death-of-the-1965-voting-rights

"Right-wing donors have spent hundreds of millions of dollars over decades to make this happen, attempting to buy America’s entire court system to accomplish their goal. The six right-wing justices sitting on the bench are bought and paid for. They might have the title of Justice, but they’re political operatives first and foremost."

~ Melissa Ryan

#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
/14

https://www.altrightdelete.news/p/new-rules-of-engagement

"The map of American politics is about to change more dramatically than at any time since Reconstruction.

This week’s Supreme Court’s decision, authored by Justice Samuel Alito, has unleashed a re-gerrymandering of the House that will eventually extend to state and local political districts across the country."

~ David Kurtz

#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
/13

https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/what-sam-alito-has-wrought-on-the

"It is as cold and cruel as Jim Clark’s determination to defend Jim Crow, even when dressed up in the legalese of James Crow, Esquire."

#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
/12

"This is the voting rights agenda of America’s authoritarian movement: restrict access to the ballot and rig elections so that reactionary forces can cling to power. It is this long-term strategy that reassures Republicans they can stand by Trump’s most unpopular policies and immoral actions without having to face electoral consequences."

~ William J. Barber II and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption
/12

https://ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/why-authoritarians-fear-moral-resistance

"During the MAGA era we have seen a shameful hesitancy among political elites, the media, and leaders in academia and the business community to confront the sheer audacity of a full-frontal assault on the basic tenets that have allowed our nation to continue its path toward a more just and inclusive polity."

~ Elliot Kirschner

#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans #Louisiana
/11

https://elliotkirschner.substack.com/p/we-need-a-new-civil-rights-movement

"Gov. Jeff Landry (R) of Louisiana declared a sham state of emergency to suspend an in-process primary so that the Louisiana legislature could redraw congressional boundaries in light of the Supreme Court opinion in Callais v. Louisiana."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans #Louisiana
/10

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/we-are-may-day-strong

"Black people and other minority groups are offered fewer protections and less visible political representation. ...

We are living in an era of unprecedented concentration of wealth and power, an era of extraordinary democratic backsliding."

#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
/9

"…which in turn increased Black economic power by opening up previously barred avenues, like public employment. ...

What has been the impact of the Roberts Court on democracy? Wealthy people have more political power than everyone else. Partisan actors have more power to reduce voter choice."

#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
/8

"The Voting Right Act of 1965, which removed the ability of governments to put in place facially neutral but clearly discriminatory practices, and in doing so ratcheted up Black registration in Louisiana until it matched White voters. This effect was immediate and enduring across the South.

The VRA increased Black political representation."

~ Don Moynihan

#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
/7

https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/power-democracy-and-clarity

"Ultimately, the decision in Callais leaves me with a question: Why are conservatives so afraid of democracy? Why are they afraid to let the voters decide elections?"

~ Joyce Vance

#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
/6

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/what-the-court-did-in-callaisand

"When the Voting Rights Act was passed, White people in the South, and the party they adopted as theirs, the Republican Party, set out to do everything in their power to dilute and destroy the Voting Rights Act. The right of Black people to vote removed White people’s power to discriminate, so they struck back."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
/5

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/go-sit-down-and-shut-up-and-do-as

"The Pinkerton men who broke strikes with clubs and rifles were private armies hired by corporations and deputized by a government that had decided labor organizing was a threat to public order."

#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
/5

"Each tool was built to achieve through the legal loopholes what could no longer be done openly.

Callais is the modern version.

The parallels to the Gilded Age are unmistakable."

~ Nadine Smith

#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
/4

https://www.contrariannews.org/p/the-supreme-courts-racist-rerun