Thank you for unmasking Roberts; chief justices are not saints. Thank you also for illuminating the criminality of the Trump organization’s attitude towards compensation and taxation. On its own, the news is unbearable, but your patient explanations maker it at least digestible!
What the majority of the justices did last week was to hold that Sec. 2 of the Voting Rights Act does not make "disparate-impact" sufficient to prove that the law was violated. That was clearly wrong, as the history of the Act--and the wrongs that led to it--show. But the court did not hold that voters cannot show "disparate treatment," and while that is hard, it may not be impossible; in a North Carolina case a couple of years ago, the Fourth Circuit said that the law could not have been better designed if it had been intended to disenfranchise Black voters. That was disparate treatment. Still, you are certainly right that the immediate solution is a new Voting Rights Act, which will take more Democrats in the Senate, and holdling the House.
As for the Trump saga, once again the family has shown how faithless they are, by virtually convicting their faithful servant Weisellberg in their public comments.
Many years ago, I defended several people accused of tax fraud. I remember reading stories at the time of how people think it is a victimless crime. I never felt that way. People who cheat on their taxes are stealing from all of us. We are all victims.
Thank you for unmasking Roberts; chief justices are not saints. Thank you also for illuminating the criminality of the Trump organization’s attitude towards compensation and taxation. On its own, the news is unbearable, but your patient explanations maker it at least digestible!
What the majority of the justices did last week was to hold that Sec. 2 of the Voting Rights Act does not make "disparate-impact" sufficient to prove that the law was violated. That was clearly wrong, as the history of the Act--and the wrongs that led to it--show. But the court did not hold that voters cannot show "disparate treatment," and while that is hard, it may not be impossible; in a North Carolina case a couple of years ago, the Fourth Circuit said that the law could not have been better designed if it had been intended to disenfranchise Black voters. That was disparate treatment. Still, you are certainly right that the immediate solution is a new Voting Rights Act, which will take more Democrats in the Senate, and holdling the House.
As for the Trump saga, once again the family has shown how faithless they are, by virtually convicting their faithful servant Weisellberg in their public comments.
Many years ago, I defended several people accused of tax fraud. I remember reading stories at the time of how people think it is a victimless crime. I never felt that way. People who cheat on their taxes are stealing from all of us. We are all victims.