Tagged: Supreme Court

SCOTUS guts Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act 3

The Supreme Court Just Made Racism Legal Again

On April 29, 2026, the Supreme Court decided that protecting minority voting rights is unconstitutional if you do it too well. Let that sentence sit with you for a moment. The highest court in the land ruled, 6-3, that Louisiana cannot draw congressional districts that actually reflect the racial makeup of its population because doing so relies too much on race. The case is Louisiana v. Callais, and it represents the most significant demolition of the Voting Rights Act since the law was passed in 1965. Here is what happened in plain terms. Louisiana has six congressional districts. Roughly one-third...

Supreme Court Unanimously Rules Police Need Warrants For GPS Tracking 4

Supreme Court Unanimously Rules Police Need Warrants For GPS Tracking

At last a bit of sanity. It seems that among the push for more intrusions into citizen privacy there may be a few roadblocks on the path to our Orwellian future. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that law enforcement must obtain a warrant before placing GPS tracking on people’s vehicles. “We hold that the government’s installation of a GPS device on a target’s vehicle, and its use of that device to monitor the vehicle’s movements, constitutes a ‘search,’” Justice Antonin Scalia wrote. Now this may seem like a no-brainer decision but so does the question of corporate personhood. Although the...