Justice Jackson: Black Americans Are Like the Disabled When Trying to Get Voting Access

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Arguments on revising The Voting Rights Act were heard in the Supreme Court today and Justice Jackson didn’t disappoint with her illogical reasoning.

The Court is going to rule on the constitutionality of drawing majority-black districts to comply with the Voting Rights Act.

Justice Jackson wants remediation in the form of affirmative action for black Americans who are, in her metaphorical terms, like the disabled and apparently can’t get access the voting system. To get equal access, they need race-based districts.

Here is what she said:

Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act against the backdrop of a world that was generally not accessible to people with disabilities. And so it was discriminatory in effect because these folks were not able to access these buildings. And it didn’t matter whether the person who built the building or the person who owned the building intended for them to be exclusionary; that’s irrelevant. Congress said, the facilities have to be made equally open to people with disabilities if readily possible. I guess I don’t understand why that’s not what’s happening here.

The idea in Section 2 is that we are responding to current-day manifestations of past and present decisions that disadvantage minorities and make it so that they don’t have equal access to the voting system. Right? They’re disabled. In fact ,we use the word ‘disabled’ in [Milliken v. Bradley]. We say that’s a way in which these processes are not equally open. So I don’t understand why it matters whether the state intended to do that. What Congress is saying is if it is happening … you gotta fix it.

That’s the worst metaphor and the silliest argument I have heard yet, and to think a black justice came up with it. She is living in 1964.

Justice Jackson also angrily tried to make a case for congressional district racial quotas, while not being able to make a legal case. She used the “Trust Me on This,” argument.

Justice Jackson wants affirmative action, racial quotas, in districting to remedy what she thinks is racism against black people.

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Saltherring
Saltherring
20 days ago

From what I have seen since the days of Lyndon Johnson’s (not so) “Great Society”, black Americans have had no problems accessing the welfare office, so why should registering to vote and casting a ballot present such a challenge, being as George Wallace, Lester Maddox, J W Fulbright, Al Gore Sr. and the rest of the Democrat segregationists died off… Read more »

Popeye
Popeye
20 days ago

Plenty of ability for crash and grab but disabled when it comes to voting.
I see . . .

Frank S
Frank S
20 days ago

She’s SCOTUS’ Kamala Harris. Dems have, via one underhanded way or another, been stealing elections for decades. This ruling could put everyone on a fair, level playing field.

tnt
tnt
20 days ago

I am disabled and have no problem at all voting.

tnt
tnt
20 days ago

Is she really that ignorant?

Canadian Friend
Canadian Friend
20 days ago
Reply to  tnt

She is.

Freddie Schwartz
Freddie Schwartz
20 days ago

Doesn’t know what a law book is, makes it up as she goes.

Taras Bulba
Taras Bulba
19 days ago

She does what she is told to do!

Saltherring
Saltherring
20 days ago
Reply to  tnt

Ignorance is fixable but stupid is permanent.

Taras Bulba
Taras Bulba
19 days ago
Reply to  Saltherring

Ignorance can be educated, crazy can be medicated, but you can’t fix or cure stupid!

Tim Kuehl
Tim Kuehl
20 days ago
Reply to  tnt

No, she isn’t ignorant. Ignorance is a lack of information and can be corrected with factual information. No, she’s not ignorant, she’s stupid. And as Ron White told us, “You just can’t fix stupid.”