AP - Court Fight Against Georgia Voting Overhaul No Sure Thing.

[Elwood P Dowd]

https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-legislature-georgia-legislation-voting-rights-af3804641a245a54e320e1d09ce825c3

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The Supreme Court, with three Trump appointees in a 6-3 conservative majority, likely would have the final word on challenges to restrictions in Georgia and elsewhere.

The justices' pending decision in a voting rights case from Arizona involving ballot collection and votes cast in the wrong precincts — two areas also covered in the Georgia law — also could affect the outcome of the Georgia lawsuit, especially if the court waters down a surviving provision of the Voting Rights Act that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race.

“The fate of this lawsuit might really turn on what we learn this spring from the Supreme Court,” said Deborah Pearlstein, a constitutional law professor at Yeshiva University’s Cardozo law school in New York. A decision in the Arizona case is expected by late June.

The Supreme Court's last major decision on the voting rights law was in 2013, when the court effectively gutted a key provision that had forced states and local governments with a history of discrimination to get approval before enacting any election-related changes.

[KPN]

1. When the SCOTUS threatens democracy, SCOTUS needs changed, i.e., expand the number of justices.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. I like the number 15.

[dalton99a]

3. Absolutely.

[MoonRiver]

4. And SCOTUS knows it.