“Justice Alito has a ‘Schoolhouse Rock’ version of how democracy is supposed to work,” one legal expert said. Alito says handing abortion back to the states gives women a voice, but it’s not that simple in the South.
Attorneys from the Mississippi Center for Justice have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to strike that part of the provision. As of now, the only way to restore a person’s voting rights in Mississippi is for two-thirds of the House and Senate to vote in support and the governor to sign off. In some years, only a handful of these bills pass.
Even when women are able to vote, there’s no guarantee that the issues they want to see advanced will be prioritized by their elected officials, Williams said. And that may be true for abortion.conducted this month, 6 out of 10 Americans said that abortion should either be “always legal” or “legal most of the time.” And almost two-thirds of respondents said Roe should not be overturned.
In Georgia and Texas, which are also prepared to gut abortion rights if Roe falls, residents backing abortion rights candidates may face their own. A law passed in Georgia last year, which was challenged by the Justice Department, gives voters less time to request absentee ballots, requires voters without driver’s licenses to photocopy another form of ID to obtain an absentee ballot, and makes it illegal for churches and civic groups to provide water or meals to voters waiting in long lines.
That “deliberately minimizes the voting strength of minority communities,” the Justice Department said in a news release describing theLi, the attorney with the Brennan Center, noted that the impact of redistricting may seem obscure at first.
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