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Supreme Court voids portions of Voting Rights Act
By Richard Day on Tue, 06/25/2013 - 10:44am |The Supreme Court struck down a central portion of the Voting Rights Act Tuesday, effectively ending the practice in which some states with a history of racial discrimination must receive clearance from the federal government before changing voting laws.
Of course the decision was 5 to 4!
Story is developing as 'analysts' and pundits review a decision that struck down a law passed by a unanimous Congress!
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http://projects.nytimes.com/live-dashboard/2013-06-25-supreme-court#sha=3a2902b09
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But Roberts said these are new times! Need a new formula!
Discrimination can still be addressed, by the DOJ somehow cataloging, investigating, prosecuting and seeking court injunctions for each and every two bit southern township or county that tries to do stuff like a county in Texas did, try to move a polling station from a public school to a former all white country club.
Kos says John Lewis tweets this kills the Voting Rights Act. For all practical purposes Roberts and the GOP think they can turn the clock back to 1960 again for minorities in the South.
I got news for them, it won't work.
by NCD on Tue, 06/25/2013 - 2:55pm
I was responding to you NCD in my comment; I hit the wrong button!
Speaking of hitting the wrong buttons, Roberts and Kennedy should be ashamed of themselves.
Alito and Thomas and Scalia have no shame!
by Richard Day on Tue, 06/25/2013 - 3:26pm
Here is a taste of Representative John Lewis weighing in on all of this:
On "Bloody Sunday," nearly 50 years ago, Hosea Williams and I led 600 peaceful, nonviolent protesters attempting to march from Selma to Montgomery to dramatize the need for voting rights protection in Alabama. As we crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, we were attacked by state troopers who tear-gassed, clubbed and whipped us and trampled us with horses. I was hit in the head with a nightstick and suffered a concussion on the bridge. Seventeen marchers were hospitalized that day.
by Richard Day on Tue, 06/25/2013 - 1:40pm
This makes the GOP more of a Whites only Party. The GOP legislators will act to suppress minority votes. Voters will win by showing up en masse at the polls. Minorities will continue to view the White males on the Supreme Court (and Clarence Thomas) as defenders of the Old South
This decision occurs in the backdrop of the Trayvon Martin Case. If George Zimmerman is found not guilty, it will solidify a message that the court system is not a current place for Blacks to find relief.
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 06/25/2013 - 2:27pm
Howard Klein is on MSNBC right now and he points out that the result of this 'tragedy' in judicial thinking (on the part of repubs) is that the dems must and will gather the funds to initiate individual suits every goddamn time the legislatures in the North and the South attempt to curtail minority voting rights.
He has a good point and this will all be a great source of funds for the dems and for the repubs who give a damn!
Today it was the Black Caucus as well as the Hispanic Caucus appearing together.
This might turn out all right.
Remember, when the DOJ Civil Rights Division was run by repubs there were racist emails as well as non action; failure to react to government sponsored racism as well as corporate sponsored racism.
I am hopeful!
by Richard Day on Tue, 06/25/2013 - 3:24pm
Given the makeup of the court, this was not unexpected. Clarence Thomas again exposes himself as a fool .Yesterday Thomas equated Affirmative Action to Slavery. E.W. Jackson the idiot running for the Lt Governor of Virginia equated the Democratic Party to a plantation. Because the GOP puts forth Thomas and Evans as example of good Negroes., Democrats can actually relax because they know Blacks cannot vote for what the Republicans offer.
Blacks, Latinos, Asians, Gays and women are being pushed into the Democratic Party. The core of the GOP will be mainly White males. There will not be enough Whites to carry the neede Republican votes in many states in the future.
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 06/25/2013 - 3:44pm
An instructive early Thomas case from 1992 was Hudson vs. McMillan.
SCOTUS majority decided that the rights of a shackled state prisoner were violated when he had the shit beat out of him and his teeth knocked out by prison guards.
Thomas was joined by no other judges in saying the beating did not violate the rights of the prisoner. He is a piece of work who could only be appointed by a Republican, George Sr.
by NCD on Tue, 06/25/2013 - 8:19pm
I said EW Evans instead of EW Jackson
In the novel, Uncle Tom was written to be a heroic character who played the buffoon to keep other Blacks from being punished. Clarence Thomas is no Uncle Tom.
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 06/25/2013 - 8:57pm
Somebody should write a book on your theme!
God Almighty, people just grab on to cliches without reviewing where in the hell they came from!
Well put!
by Richard Day on Wed, 06/26/2013 - 12:57am
I bet every minority voter will turn out in midterm in Florida just to spite the Republicans. There was an attitude the last cycle that everyone needed to vote to protect their right to vote.
by trkingmomoe on Wed, 06/26/2013 - 12:05am
That is my point Momoe.
This is going to piss off dems and moderates to an extent we have not seen for awhile!
Let's all get to work as my Ed might say!
We were not going to show up at the polls last November; that is what Gallop thought as well as other repub pollers.
Let's get to work!
by Richard Day on Wed, 06/26/2013 - 12:54am
Multiple states will enact voter I'd to try to prevent nonexistent voter fraud. Sunday voting and same day voting will be abolished. Voting booths at minority precincts will decrease. Voters in minority communities will be directed to the wrong precincts. We know these things will happen because they were done in the last election.
The GOP lives in a bubble where they only see the progress that has been made,without their help, but ignore ongoing racial bias. The evil that they are doing cannot withstand the winds of time.
The current activist court has corporations as citizens, allowed money to play a bigger role in elections and now wants to return to Jim Crow style election laws.it is hard for me not to hate each Republican that I encounter at work right now, but that sensation will pass.
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 06/26/2013 - 8:21am