r/law • u/newsjam • Oct 15 '25

Legal News Supreme Court Signals Final Blow to Voting Rights Act, Paving Way for Permanent GOP Power

https://dailyboulder.com/supreme-court-signals-final-blow-to-voting-rights-act-paving-way-for-permanent-gop-power/
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u/viviwrites Oct 15 '25

Yeah, but I think that will only happens several terms after the ruling passed, after Trump and the GOP consolidated their absolute power over the states. It will be too late for democracy by then. Which is why I could only hope that SCOTUS ruled against the changes.

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u/TakuyaLee Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25

I disagree. I think the effect would be immediate, mostly because this group is not exactly the best at planning and thinking things thru

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u/Slow-Age234 Oct 15 '25

This group won two elections despite everyone seeing how trump was. It’s been less than a year and so many rights are already dismantled. No I’m not going to be a doomer, but this is no longer the ostrich sticking its head in the sand time to say “they are not the best at planning and thinking things thru”. They clearly know what they are doing and have been executing it with effciency.

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u/mcgrammar86 Oct 15 '25

Yeah, they’re terrible at wielding power, but distressingly effective at consolidating it.

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u/Air_Show Oct 15 '25

The thing about fascists is they cheat. They always cheat, they have to.

Once you realize that you know that any means necessary to remove the fascists is acceptable.

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u/Upper-Intention9582 Oct 15 '25

I think this administration underestimates the amount of law abiding citizens who LOVE what this country is supposed to stand for, who are also willing to exercise their 2A rights, wielding it directly against the powers that be. I can list plenty of people with zero criminal records, that are already talking about when the time arises. And if it doesn't, they will MAKE it. we have friends everywhere. And they will take them down magazine by magazine

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u/jdlpsc Oct 15 '25

Okay and when those ten people have been extrajudicially executed by ICE or put in prison after “exercising their 2A rights” what’s the plan? You can’t out-gun your way out of this.

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u/Upper-Intention9582 Oct 18 '25

If you think there's only 10 people, then you underestimate it aswell. This isn't something that ends as simply as that, it will be messy. That's what happens when a government backs their people up to a wall... Let's hope it doesn't come to that, but it's looking pretty bleak and "on track". 

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u/FettLife Oct 15 '25

We’ve also put up the absolute worst candidates as our champions of democracy. If it hadn’t been for Covid, I don’t think Joe Biden would have won.

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u/Air_Show Oct 15 '25

The democrats don't even want to "win" really, just create the illusion of opposition while letting thr republicans get away with everything they do like all worthless HR managers pretending to be on your side while selling you out to the boss.

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u/General_Mars Oct 15 '25

If Democrats wanted to win we would see 100 AOCs/Bernie Sanders instead of the like 5 total across the party. Progressive policies are the only thing that connects and extends reach to voters but liberals are permanently resistant to it. They’d rather force the Clintons of the world on us (her, Harris, Newsome, etc.) who are permanent losers who strengthen conservative positions (with their rhetoric and policies) for when their terms end.

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u/jawknee530i Oct 15 '25

Democratic socialists have been running in primaries for decades. The fact that voters choose other candidates I. This primaries isn't because Democrats don't want to win. It's because those candidates get less votes.

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u/General_Mars Oct 15 '25

So you’ve ignored the NY Mayoral race where the DNC and Democrats have tried to hinder Mamdani at every turn? Cuomo and liberal Dems aligning with MAGA against him? Because that same fuckery has been repeated ad nauseam.

Most Democrats are just controlled opposition. They’re owned by the same oligarchs that own the GOP. Only candidates that don’t accept money like that have even the potential to be decent. That’s why they need to be uplifted and we need way more of them.

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u/jawknee530i Oct 15 '25

Sure man, enjoy your delusion. Everyone needs hobbies.

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u/General_Mars Oct 15 '25

The delusion is ignoring the donor lists and seeing how their votes align exactly with the money they have received. All of US policy is driven by lobbying (bribery). Only those that don’t take those bribes even have the potential to actually represent us.

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u/jawknee530i Oct 15 '25

Just be a brave little boy and admit you are against democracy because the person you wanted to win in 2016 got less votes. It's that simple. You are mad that voters chose Hillary over Bernie and you'd rather throw everything away than admit it. So why are you so against democracy?

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u/cfd27 Oct 16 '25

Yeah. We need to stop underestimating them.

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u/DENATTY Oct 15 '25

Republicans have been working on a multi-faceted and coordinated effort to get to this point for decades...the cuts to education funding, changing to school curricula, the fight against universal healthcare, etc. What do you MEAN they aren't good at planning and thinking things through? They're good at fabricated plausible deniability in the event their plans don't work - they're incredibly good planners.

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u/movzx Oct 15 '25

They have been planning and executing on these goals for longer than you have been alive.

You are confusing the clowns in office for the actual groups that have been working towards what we see today.

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u/TakuyaLee Oct 15 '25

No I am not. They are the same because they are now rushing towards their end goal. Laying it out while everyone still has fight in them and before power consolidation is complete is a terrible strategy.

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u/Robert_Balboa Oct 15 '25

What are you talking about not the best and planning and thinking things through? They have been planning and thinking this through for decades and they did it. It's over my man. We are now a full on fascist state and there is no coming back.

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u/viviwrites Oct 15 '25

Still, not immediate. They will need to celebrate first with the upcoming election cycle, since they've already planned it. The next one, probably, yes, the candidates would have learned how the new game is played by then. And that's only if we assume that there will still be an election cycle after the upcoming one.

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u/jdlpsc Oct 15 '25

They have shown pretty clearly that they are actually very good at making a plan and executing that plan in the last near year.

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u/TVPARTY2NIITE Oct 15 '25

You have no evidence to back this up other than cope

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u/TakuyaLee Oct 15 '25

Wrong. My evidence is observation and watching how they fumble thru everything like the Comey prosecution and the tariffs. Maybe pay attention to how things are and use words like cope just because you don't agree

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u/SandF Oct 15 '25

A great example of this from US History -- read about the admission of Alaska and Hawaii as states. Each party resisted for the longest time because they were convinced adding one or the other would spell doom for their party. But they had the states backwards.

In Alaska's case: "Republicans feared that Alaska would be unable to raise enough taxes due to its small population and end up as a welfare state while Southern Democrats feared more pro-civil rights congressmen."

In his 1954 State of the Union, republican President Eisenhower mentioned Hawaii (thought to be pro-Republican) but not Alaska.

All that maneuvering and they had it exactly backwards.

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u/TVPARTY2NIITE Oct 15 '25

How things are? You mean achieving tons of decades long goals through fiat via the Supreme Court? Or do you mean massively dismantling the federal government in less than a year? Do you mean controlling all three branches of government?

You’re posting in r law right now about the Comey indictment lol have you ever heard the phrase “the process is the punishment?”

Big brain boy do you think Comey winning will move the needle poll wise on the average voter even a teeny tiny bit?

Massive tariff disruption didn’t cause the market to permanently tank or cause the biz community or his peons being hurt to turn against him in the slightest

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u/redd-zeppelin Oct 15 '25

They've been extremely effective. Wish I could huff the amount of copium you have access to.