Shawn Fleetwood writes for the Federalist about a Georgia senator’s indefensible comments.
It’s no secret that there’s been an uptick in left-wing threats against the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative justices in recent years. And it seems that Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., is more than willing to amplify the problem by spreading hyperbolic lies about the court’s work product.
The latest smear campaign came about in the pages of the hoax-peddling New York Times, which was more than happy to give Georgia’s junior senator airtime to hawk his new book. Employing left-wing rhetoric like the good little Democrat propagandist he is, interviewer David Marchese described Warnock’s book as a literary work that “singles out” so-called “voting rights” as one of America’s “most pressing political and moral issues” — an issue Marchese said “has turned for many into a full-blown crisis” following the Supreme Court’s “recent blow” to the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
That “recent blow” was the court’s Louisiana v. Callais ruling, which deemed the Pelican State’s congressional map to be an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander.” What Marchese didn’t bother mentioning is that the only ones experiencing a “full-blown crisis” are Democrats, whose strategy of forcing states to draw racist gerrymandered districts to benefit their party came crashing down as a result of the high court’s decision.
Marchese’s apparent desire for a juicy soundbite of Warnock trashing SCOTUS led him to cite the Democrat senator’s recent slander of Callais as “Jim Crow in new clothes.” In doing so, he asked Warnock to respond to the super-duper hard-hitting question of what “voting rights” means to him since his “parents and grandparents grew up in the Jim Crow South.”
Right on cue, Warnock vilified the high court in a way only Democrats know how. He accused the Callais majority of “committ[ing] violence against the ways in which ordinary people can have a voice in our system,” and further cited the court’s 2013 Shelby County v. Holder decision on the VRA to claim that Chief Justice John Roberts “despises the Voting Rights Act” and “never believed in it.”
