American Courts Corrupted
Conservatism is also dishonesty
I remember the 1991 Louisiana governor’s race. I have never lived in Louisiana. It doesn’t matter, because things ripple so I pay attention to everything I can. I was preparing to join the U.S. Marine Corps.
The Republican apparatus of damage and destruction was preparing to vote for white Christian nationalism. David Duke is a crook and a Klansman. Low-income white voters chose the Klansman at 56-63% by income bracket. That’s not my number — that’s the New York Times archive. Those voters are still alive. Some of them are still voting.
The Voting Rights Act exists because Black Americans were being murdered for trying to vote. Medgar Evers. Jimmie Lee Jackson. The marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. That law was gutted this week by six unelected lawyers with lifetime appointments who were placed on that bench to gut it.
