Supreme Court doomed the US to eventual 'apartheid': legal expert
The United States is on the path to becoming more like an apartheid state, a legal expert warned, as he saw a recent decision by the Supreme Court as validating racism.
"The effect of what the Supreme Court has done is that we are going to look more and more like apartheid South Africa," lawyer and legal commentator Andrew Weissmann said on a podcast for All Rise News on Friday. Weissmann was talking about the Louisiana v Callais decision, which gutted the Voting Rights Act's protections for minority voters.
"It is happening in the context of an administration that in my lifetime is the most directly and overtly racist administration," Weissmann continued, adding that the decision is "part of a complete plan by the Supreme Court and the Chief Justice to do away with protections where it is George Orwell-like, where efforts to eradicate racial discrimination are being torn away."
The demographics in the U.S. are shifting in a way where "20 years from now, 30 years from now...there will not be a White majority," Weissmann said. He warned that after the Louisiana v. Callais decision, "there's license to be racist."
Weissmann said the effects of the decision will be felt soon, as he predicted that the upcoming midterms or presidential election "really may be the very last time that we will have this sort of election in this country as we know it."
He pleaded for voters to "stay engaged" in terms of what "actions you can take at the federal, state, or local level. Remember there's all sorts of ways that you can effect change."