@MrmuddT@FarsePoetica@katrosenfield@neerajadeshp I don’t care how I seem to you. You are absolutely nothing to me, and your opinion of me could not matter less. I have a great life, which is why I don’t feel a need to troll the internet looking for strangers to insult. Hope you find a life worth living someday.
@FarsePoetica@katrosenfield@neerajadeshp I’m exactly where Kat is. There’s a whole lot wrong with the right, and I loathe Trump, but 2019 - 2021 was truly around the bend.
Plus civil rights erosion has there been?
@bmoreabsurd@charlescwcooke@AlDefinitely That’s what my article says and that’s exactly what I’ve said here. Spewing case names and partially quoting Section 2 doesn’t change that.
@bmoreabsurd@charlescwcooke@AlDefinitely I can’t resist one more attempt to help you. Yes proof of legislative intent isn’t required. But then proof of at least a racist electorate is. Otherwise, you default to proportional representation, which can’t be the test. I just can’t make it simpler for you than that.
@bmoreabsurd@charlescwcooke@AlDefinitely I harmonized the whole thing coherently. You can’.t. I will take the extreme lameness of your “intellectually dishonest” claim as a full capitulation.Thanks.
BTW, you might google my article to see how it’s been cited by courts..They didn’t think it “dishonest”at all.
@bmoreabsurd@charlescwcooke@AlDefinitely Your crabbed reading of Section 2 makes the first and second parts of it irreconcilable. My reading harmonizes them, which what courts are supposed to do.
@bmoreabsurd@charlescwcooke@AlDefinitely Also, straight from the part of the Act that you keep pointing to is this language: “The extent to which members of a protected class have been elected to office in the State or political subdivision is one circumstance which may be considered.” Cf. Tim Scott.
@bmoreabsurd@charlescwcooke@AlDefinitely There has to be proof of actual racism, not just racially disproportionate results. Go ahead and have the last word in this forum. I’ll stand on what I wrote 40 years ago and the jurisprudence that has cited it.