Sentence examples for gut voting from inspiring English sources
Scalia tipped the White House to Bush in Bush versus Gore in 2000, voted to gut voting rights, oppose same sex marriage and gay rights protections, to scrap the checks on corporate spending on elections, whittle away at abortion rights, and give free rein to corporations to discriminate by narrowing down who could file class action lawsuits.
Thus, aides told Nixon, he needed to give fewer "think" speeches and focus more on the "gut vote".
However, he says, at the end of the day lawmakers will be forced to make a "gut vote" to determine whether this is the right thing to do.
I figured it was a gut vote for most people".
Thanks to the court's 5-4 rulinguttinging voting rights laws, upholding restrictions on voting and enabling free spending by Republican-supporting corporations, Republicans have taken power in countless states and passed a raft of new voting restrictions since 2010.
These are the same jokers who gave us the Citizens United, Hobby Lobby, and recent voting rights' decision that gutted voting protections for Black citizens in states with a history of discrimination.
They can't imagine the things we fear: the shift from rule of law to rule by vindictive authoritarians; mass deportations and internment camps for suspected aliens; sea rise and extinctions as climate regulations are gutted; voting rights and employment protections eroded; harassment and violence from white supremacists.
This was a vote "against," a from-the-gut vote by people who are worried and looking to relieve their fears by asserting control.
While the supreme court made it harder to challenge these tactics by gutting the voting rights law, there are still remedies available and federal courts have finally begun to push back against these attempts to suppress the votes of people of color and the poor.
They have upheld laws gutting the voting act, and made it possible for billionaires to contribute unlimited funds to try and buy our elections.
