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Financial insights visualization: Supreme Court ruling on Colorado's conversion-therapy ban dominated discussion: multiple tweets, including ones citing AP and legal advocates, state SCOTUS ruled 8-1 against Colorado's law on First Amendment/free speech grounds., Birthright citizenship case at SCOTUS is a major focus: multiple tweets say oral arguments are scheduled for 2026-04-01 regarding President Trump's executive order seeking to end or limit birthright citizenship for migrants/unauthorized immigrants.
SCOTUS jolts policy agenda: Court struck Colorado’s conversion-therapy ban 8-1 on 3/31; on 4/1 it hears Trump’s birthright citizenship order. One VRA redistricting case still pending. Why it matters: high stakes for speech, immigration and maps. #SCOTUS #Immigration #VRA
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Every hill prepares you for the next valley. This time, you enter it stronger, knowing you’ve climbed before #Community #Freedom #GasPrices #Peace #VRA #NoExcusesJustResults
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Truth on truth.
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#Sunday #trump #fdjt
#VRA #VOTE
#MAR28
#SAVEAct = Voter suppression
The SAVE (trump's ass) Act
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#disenfranchisement #VRA #votingRights #voterID #constitutionalDemocracyWithoutEither
#tyranny #plutocracy #feudalism [5/5]
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Neurodiversity Celebration Week is a chance to recognise the value of different thinking styles and the unique contributions neurodivergent people bring to work and life.
#NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek #InclusionAtWork #VRA #DifferentWaysOfThinking
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🗳️ The Voting Rights Act of 1965 boosted Black voter power—but the 2013 Shelby ruling weakened its shield ⚖️. The fight for fair access to the ballot isn’t over! Democracy depends on defending voting rights. 🕊️ #VotingRights #Democracy #VRA
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But also young voters, nonwhite voters, female voters, voters born abroad, etc. Because the Roberts Court already disemboweled the Voting Rights Act, and because they can.
#VRA #votingRights #faceAct #disenfranchisement #plutocracy [2/3]
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🗳️ The Voting Rights Act of 1965 boosted Black voter power—but the 2013 Shelby ruling weakened its shield ⚖️. The fight for fair access to the ballot isn’t over! Democracy depends on defending voting rights. 🕊️ #VotingRights #Democracy #VRA
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How the GOP and Trump are Hollowing Out the Voting Rights Act of 1965 By andy J.S. Decepida The Act’s core purpose The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was written to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment against racial disenfranchisement. Its logic was direct and forceful: where states used tests, procedures, or districting schemes to deny or abridge the vote on racial grounds, the federal government would intervene. Today, Section 2 remains the Act’s central nationwide prohibition on voting practices that discriminate by race or by language-minority status.1,2 The Republican turn Modern Republican politics has not generally aimed at a clean repeal of the Act. The more effective method has been to weaken, narrow, or evade it. After the Supreme Court disabled the old preclearance formula in 2013, Senate Republicans blocked the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would have restored a key part of the lost federal review structure. Meanwhile, Republican-led states enacted more than 30 new voting restrictions in 2021 alone, including stricter identification rules, limits on mail voting, and measures giving partisan actors more leverage over election administration.3,4 Trump’s program Trump’s second-term record has sharpened that direction. In Mar-2025, his Justice Department withdrew from the federal challenge to Georgia’s 2021 Republican-backed voting law, reversing the Biden administration’s position that the measure disproportionately harmed Black voters. That same month, Trump issued an executive order seeking documentary proof of citizenship for federal voter registration, broader federal scrutiny of voter rolls, and a rule that ballots must be received by Election Day.5,6
The legal and political point of those moves is hard to miss. Voting by non-citizens is already illegal in federal elections, and independent groups, election officials, and bipartisan observers have found it to be extremely rare. Yet Trump and congressional Republicans have made proof-of-citizenship rules a centrepiece anyway. The record therefore points less to a response to demonstrated fraud than to the construction of new gatekeeping rules in the name of “integrity.”6,8,9 Pressure on the Act itself The most direct threat to the Act is not only administrative; it is doctrinal. In Oct-2025, Reuters reported that Trump’s administration backed a Supreme Court challenge aimed at raising the bar for proving a Section 2 violation. That matters because Section 2 is one of the last major nationwide tools left after the earlier weakening of preclearance. If Section 2 is made harder to use, the Voting Rights Act remains on the books but loses more of its practical bite. That is a familiar Republican pattern: preserve the shell, drain the substance.2,7 The SAVE Act and the politics of intention The House Republican majority pushed that same agenda further in Feb-2026 by passing the SAVE America Act. The bill would require proof of citizenship to register, add photo-identification requirements, and restrict mail voting. Reuters also reported that Trump pressed Republicans to enact those restrictions as a way to “guarantee” victory in the midterms, and threatened to withhold his signature from other legislation until they did. That statement is unusually revealing. It strips away the pretence that the project is merely neutral administrative tidying. At minimum, it shows that Trump sees tighter voting rules as a partisan advantage.8,9
Interim Assessment The fairest reading of the record is not that today’s GOP wants to repeal the Voting Rights Act in one dramatic vote. It is doing something politically safer and operationally more potent. It is blocking efforts to rebuild the Act, narrowing the federal government’s willingness to enforce it, supporting legal theories that could weaken Section 2, and advancing new federal restrictions that shift the centre of gravity from voter protection to voter suspicion. The intention cannot be known in every private mind, but the public pattern is plain enough: less federal protection against racial disenfranchisement, more tolerance for barriers cast as “integrity,” and a clear belief — voiced by Trump himself — that those barriers can help Republicans win.3,5‑9 This amounts to a politics of attrition. The Act is not denounced in the language of Jim Crow’s defenders; it is outflanked, under-enforced, and redefined until its practical reach contracts. That is not a defence of the Voting Rights Act. It is a campaign to domesticate it.2,5,7‑9 Research Notes: 1 National Archives, “Voting Rights Act (1965)”, National Archives, 08-Feb-2022, – https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/voting-rights-act 2 United States Department of Justice, “Section 2 Of The Voting Rights Act”, United States Department of Justice, 05-Apr-2023, – https://www.justice.gov/crt/section-2-voting-rights-act 3 Reuters, “U.S. Senate Democrats fail in latest bid to debate voting rights bill”, Reuters, 03-Nov-2021, – https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-democrats-return-voting-rights-with-eye-filibuster-2021-11-03/ 4 Reuters, “Explainer: New state laws are fueling a U.S. debate over voting access; here’s how”, Reuters, 17-Feb-2022, – https://www.reuters.com/world/us/new-state-laws-are-fueling-us-debate-over-voting-access-heres-how-2022-02-17/
5 Reuters, “In a change of course, US Justice Dept drops challenge to Georgia voting law”, Reuters, 31-Mar-2025, – https://www.reuters.com/world/us/change-course-us-justice-dept-drops-challenge-georgia-voting-law-2025-03-31/ 6 The White House, “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections”, The White House, 25-Mar-2025, – https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/preserving-and-protecting-the-integrity-of-american-elections/ 7 Reuters, “US Supreme Court conservatives appear willing to blunt key Voting Rights Act provision”, Reuters, 15-Oct-2025, – https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-hear-case-that-takes-aim-voting-rights-act-2025-10-15/ 8 Reuters, “US House passes bill to require proof of US citizenship for midterm voters”, Reuters, 11-Feb-2026, – https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-house-consider-new-election-restrictions-ahead-november-midterms-2026-02-11/ 9 Reuters, “Trump presses Republicans for voting restrictions ahead of midterm elections”, Reuters, 09-Mar-2026, – https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/house-republicans-seek-path-trump-agenda-amid-war-election-headwinds-2026-03-09/
🗳️⚖️ #VotingRights #VRA #Trump #GOP
The modern GOP isn’t repealing the Voting Rights Act outright; it’s trying to hollow it out — by blocking restorations, weakening enforcement, targeting Section 2, and repackaging barriers as “election integrity.”
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If you don’t like where you’re headed, don’t blame the road. Change the way you roll #Community #KirkClay #Freedom #PowerCheck #vra #peace
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#VRA Vera Bradley Announces Fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 2026 Results and Leadership Appointments
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V tom případu nesedělo téměř nic. Přesto v roce 2017 nyní třiašedesátiletého řidiče kamionu Andrease Kammerzella z německého Plattlingu nedaleko Pasova poslaly české soudy na osm let do vězení za pokus o vraždu jeho kamaráda během společné rybářské výpravy na Českobudějovicko. Až poté, co si […]
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It took about 100 yrs after #14ththAmendments for #VotingRightsAct. And the #VRA may be further stripped by SCOTUS.
The #ReverendJesseJackson always took "the harder path"; he was honored by the inspiring speeches of former presidents #Clinton #Obama & #Biden. #equalrights #hope #change
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VOTING RIGHTS NOW
#VRA #VotingRightsAct #VotingRights ##VotingRightsActNow
#VoteBlueAndGetOthers2JoinU
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In 2013 in Shelby County-Holder #SCOTUS struck down the section of the #VRA requiring states to preclear #election changes. The result was disastrous: political participation of #Black / #minority voters declined dramatically relative to #white voters.
In 2021 racial #gerrymandering was made easier.
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Love isn’t about being fearless.
It’s about feeling the fear... and moving anyway. You carry it. You don’t let it carry you. That’s grown strength #2R1WM #community #freedom #kirkclay #realrealty #vra
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The #JohnRoberts court has repeatedly gutted the #VRA & if it were to rule that it is unconstitutional for states to draw districts that allow voters of color to elect their candidates of choice that would essentially spell the death of the country’s most important #CivilRights #law. Based on […]
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Court watchers speculate that #Alito, because he has not authored an opinion from the court’s term last October, is writing the majority opinion in a hugely important case the court has yet to rule on concerning the constitutionality of the last remaining section of the #VotingRightsAct. If […]
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#Alito is essentially saying that districts drawn under the #VotingRightsAct or other federal & state laws to remedy centuries of racial #discrimination are as #racist as the #racism (including the legacy of #slavery & #JimCrow) they were meant to rectify.
#law #SCOTUS #democracy #VRA […]
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The majority did not explain its reasoning, but most concerning was the concurring opinion by Justice Samuel #Alito, in which he wrote that districts drawn “for the express purpose of ensuring that ‘minority voters’ are able to elect the candidate of their choice” represented “unadorned racial […]
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“Time & again, this Court has said that federal courts should not interfere with state-court litigation,” #Sotomayor wrote. “Time & again, this Court has said that federal courts should not meddle with state election laws ahead of an election. Today, the Court says: except for this one, except […]
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In her dissenting opinion, which was joined by Justices #KetanjiBrownJackson & Elena #Kagan, Justice Sonia #Sotomayor blasted the court’s conservative majority for using one set of rules to uphold #redistricting maps that benefit #white voters & #Republicans in states like #Texas while using a […]
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The court’s ruling sets a disturbing #precedent for #VotingRights in several ways. Federal courts are supposed to defer to #state courts on matters of state #law. And #SCOTUS has repeatedly ruled that courts should not change election laws in the middle of an #election season, & in this instance […]
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#SCOTUS on Monday evening overturned a #NewYork state court ruling that found that the Staten Island-based district of #Republican US House Rep. Nicole Malliotakis discriminated against #Black & #Latino voters & needed to be redrawn. The Supreme Court’s intervention preserves a #GOP led seat […]
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Justice #Alito’s Latest Opinion Is a Very, Very Bad Sign for #VotingRights
A decision upholding a #NewYork #GOP congressional district could be a prelude to killing the #VotingRightsAct.
#law #SCOTUS #democracy #VRA #ElectionLaw #redistricting #gerrymandering #authoritarianism […]
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#SCOTUS indicated in an unsigned order that they are likely to take up a federal appeals court ruling that would ELIMINATE the most common path people and civil rights groups use to sue under a key provision of the 60-year-old Voting Rights Act #VRA as early as 2026 and decided by next summer.
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Je moet gewoon ongelofelijk veel verstand hebben van je vakgebied als je belangrijke beslissingen moet nemen. Zeker omdat het ook om vele jonge mensenlevens kan gaan.
Ook in onderhandelingen met collega's in Europa. Waar is behoefte aan, wat kunnen wij wel niet bieden. #VRA
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#VRA Vera Bradley, Inc. Announces Reporting Date For Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2026 Results
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