When the Supreme Court concluded its most recent term by upholding two controversial Arizona voting laws, Democrats vowed to override the 6-3 decision that split the court’s conservatives and liberals along ideological lines.
In the case, Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, the court’s conservatives ruled that the state’s ballot harvesting ban, as well as its requirement that Election Day ballots be cast in a voter’s home precinct, was not intended to be racially discriminatory. The court’s liberals disagreed sharply, claiming the laws had a disparate effect on minority communities and violated federal law…
President Joe Biden condemned the decision in a statement, calling it an attack on the “beating heart of our democracy.” Biden also called out the court’s conservatives during a Tuesday speech, in which he also spoke against a raft of Republican-led state election laws drawn up after the 2020 presidential election.
Biden listed the Supreme Court’s decision as one of many attacks on the country, lumping it with 2020 election challenges and the Jan. 6 riot inside the Capitol. Biden urged Congress to fight against the court’s decision, saying the case demanded a legislative response. Read more…
