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jamelleonBluesky1d ago
Sam Alito: It is the worst kind of discrimination to create majority-minority congressional districts and so we are going to kill the Voting Rights Act.
Also Sam Alito: There is nothing we can do if the president cancels legal status because he thinks the United States is a white country.
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Analysis Summary
Bouie, a NYT columnist, is contrasting two strands of Justice Alito's jurisprudence — aggressive skepticism of race-conscious voting protections versus deference to a president revoking immigrants' legal status. The underlying pattern is real: the Roberts Court, with Alito, has steadily weakened the Voting Rights Act. Alito authored the majority opinion in Louisiana v. Callais, which held that Louisiana was not required to create an additional majority-minority district and that the VRA did not justify the racial gerrymander — a ruling widely described as severely weakening Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Meanwhile, the Court has waved through Trump's emergency-docket immigration moves. What readers may miss: the same Court term has produced both a major VRA rollback and multiple shadow-docket green lights for Trump revoking TPS and parole for hundreds of thousands of migrants.
Claims Analysis (2)
“Alito has argued that majority-minority congressional districts are a form of discrimination and has voted to weaken the Voting Rights Act.”
Alito's opinions in Allen v. Milligan dissent and recent VRA cases reflect skepticism of race-conscious districting; Court has steadily weakened VRA.
“Alito has taken the position that the judiciary cannot stop the president from canceling legal status of immigrants on racial grounds.”
Bouie is characterizing Alito's deference in recent immigration emergency docket rulings (e.g., TPS, parole revocations); it's rhetorical paraphrase not a literal quote.
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