Greg Palast - This week, Trump-appointed judges permanently barred the NAACP from suing government voting rights violators. Only the government itself may to sue to stop government itself from committing gross racial vote suppression. If you think that’s crazy, Trump judges don’t care what you think.The ruling by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals literally blesses racist blockades to the Voting Rights Act in seven states under its malfeasant jurisdiction (Arkansas, Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Missouri). If the US Supreme Court goes along with this ruling, the whole of the United States will be Jim Crow’d.
The facts: This week, the court voted 3-2 that the NAACP is banned from bringing any suit—ever—for racial discrimination under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The ban also applies to the ACLU (which filed a friend-of-the-court brief on the side of NAACP) and every other civil rights organization in those seven states. Only the government itself may sue. As it is the government itself which is the perpetrator of the crime of vote suppression, this ruling means that only the perpetrator of the crime may sue itself
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