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Samuel Alito?s False Call To Return The Issue Of Abortion To ?The People?


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Wade is about restoring democracy.The court’s 1973 Roe decision, in which justices voted 7-2 to legalize abortion nationwide, “short-circuited the democratic process by closing it to the large number of Americans who dissented in any respect from Roe,” Alito wrote in a draft opinion leaked to Politico. Holder that gutted the Voting Rights Act’s Section 5, which required states with a history of racial discrimination to get “preclearance” from the federal government for any changes to election laws and district maps.As a result of these positions, Republicans at the state level have gained legislative majorities that greatly outpace their share of the popular vote statewide.Take Wisconsin, where an 1849 law banning abortion would go into effect if the Supreme Court does ultimately overturn Roe v. Despite its swing state status, the state Assembly and state Senate district maps are so gerrymandered in favor of Republicans that it is practically impossible for Democrats to win control of either chamber.In 2012, Republicans won only 46% of the statewide vote in legislative elections, but took 60% of the seats in both chambers. The increased confidence in their positions that comes with a six-vote conservative supermajority should greatly worry voting rights advocates.And while we may not know whether the court will further limit the ways voters can fairly select their own elected representatives, we do know the ways that Alito and other conservative justices would like to make it even harder for them to do so.In the 2015 Arizona State Legislature v.

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