FROM BREITBART: During a hearing at the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) involving whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson seemed to liken black Americans to Americans with disabilities.
The case, known as Louisiana v. Callais, considers whether Louisiana’s congressional map — which includes two majority-black districts — violates the 15th Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
Plaintiffs in the case argue that the congressional map is unconstitutionally gerrymandered based on race.
During the hearing, Justice Jackson seemed to contend that black American voters are equivalent to Americans with physical disabilities.
“So going back to this discriminatory intent point, I guess I’m thinking of it, of the fact that remedial action absent discriminatory intent is really not a new idea in the civil rights laws. And my kind of paradigmatic example of this is something like the [Americans with Disabilities Act],” Jackson said.
“Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act against the backdrop of a world that was generally not accessible to people with disabilities. And so it was discriminatory in effect because these folks were not able to access these buildings. And it didn’t matter whether the person who built the building or the person who owned the building intended for them to be exclusionary; that’s irrelevant. Congress said, the facilities have to be made equally open to people with disabilities if readily possible. I guess I don’t understand why that’s not what’s happening here.
The idea in Section 2 is that we are responding to current-day manifestations of past and present decisions that disadvantage minorities and make it so that they don’t have equal access to the voting system. Right? They’re disabled. In fact ,we use the word ‘disabled’ in [Milliken v. Bradley]. We say that’s a way in which these processes are not equally open. So I don’t understand why it matters whether the state intended to do that. What Congress is saying is if it is happening … you gotta fix it.
Ketanji Brown Jackson literally and directly compares black people not electing their preferred candidates to disabled people not being able to enter buildings
“They don’t have equal access to the voting system. They’re disabled.” pic.twitter.com/aCJXeBwHTl
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