<p>It is not.</p><p>Tuesday's arguments discussed the landmark Voting Rights Act and "an Arizona law that disqualified ballots cast in the wrong precinct," as <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/2021/03/gop-lawyer-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud-in-scotus-voting-rights-case/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Mother Jones</a> reports.</p><p>The Brennan Center, as <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-voting-rights-act/2021/03/02/3515c4d0-7b62-11eb-b3d1-9e5aa3d5220c_story.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Washington Post</a>, reporting on today's Supreme Court hearing notes, is tracking over 250 bills Republicans are pushing in more than half the states across the country that are designed to take the "voter fraud" lies Donald Trump and his supporters have been pushing for nearly a year and turn them into "legal" voter suppression.</p><p>The Supreme Court has changed dramatically in the nearly eight years since it suggested racism isn't a big deal anymore – and not for the better.</p><p>But it was the court's newest member, and one of the most right wing yet, who asked a revealing question.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x">“What's the interest of the Arizona RNC here in keeping, say, the out-of-precinct ballot disqualification rules on the books?"</p><p>That law forces the state to throw out voter ballots if cast in the wrong precinct.</p><p>The question was asked by Justice Amy Coney Barrett.</p><p>The answer stunned many.</p><p>“Because it puts us at a competitive disadvantage relative to Democrats," the lawyer, Michael Carvin, responded, as Mother Jones reports. “Politics is a zero-sum game," he added.</p><p>"It's the difference between winning an election 50-49 and –" he continued, but Justice Barrett wouldn't even let him finish his sentence, perhaps for fear of what else he would say.</p><p>"Republicans' intentions couldn't be any clearer," writes Mother Jones' Abigail Weinberg. "It's not about reducing fraud. It's about keeping minorities from voting for Democrats."</p><p>Listen as Carvin, <a href="https://fedsoc.org/contributors/michael-carvin" rel="noopener" target="_blank">a Federalist Society lawyer</a>, very matter-of-factly, and almost condescendingly, admit what Republicans need to do to win:</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none">
In voting rights case, Justice Barrett asks GOP lawyer Michael Carvin “what's the interest" to Republicans in keeping voting restrictions in AZ.
Carvin: “Because it puts us at a competitive disadvantage relative to Democrats. Politics is a zero-sum game."<a href="https://t.co/In7GULkSUb">pic.twitter.com/In7GULkSUb</a><br/>
— The Recount (@therecount) <a href="https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1366822969331351558?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 2, 2021</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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