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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on June 25, 2013, 09:19:03 AM
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Key Provision Of Law Meant To Protect Minority Voters
http://www.businessinsider.com/supreme-court-says-voting-rights-act-is-unconstitutional-2013-6
The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, a law that was passed to ensure minorities in the South could get out to vote.
The court ruled that Section 4's formula can no longer be used as a basis for subjecting jurisdictions to preclearance, SCOTUSBlog reported.
Section 5 of the VRA requires 9 states with histories of discrimination (mostly in the South) to get permission from the federal government before changing their voting procedures.
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If minorities don't get out and vote down here now...it's their own fault. I mean, they get free pick up and rides to the polls now.
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If minorities don't get out and vote down here now...it's their own fault. I mean, they get free pick up and rides to the polls now.
Up here they get cash, too.
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Here is the reaction from that MSNBC loon, Melissa Harris Perry, on twitter: "Damn, that citizenship thing was so great for awhile." What is she babbling about?
Another MSNBC loon, Chris Hayes, is boiling mad.
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I'm a southern white male......why is everybody always picking on me?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UnPzp2lmNk
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Section 5 of the VRA — which actually requires states to get permission from the federal government before changing their election laws — was not explicitly ruled unconstitutional. But unless Congress can come up with a new coverage formula, the VRA can't be enforced.
Didn't Holder recently sue SC over this part? If I read this right, this part can't be enforced without section 4.
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Texas is implementing its voter ID law immediately now that they don't have to get permission form the Feds...
Dallas Morning News (http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2013/06/texas-voter-id-law-could-start-now-attorney-general-greg-abbott.html/)
WASHINGTON — The implications of today’s landmark ruling could be swift and stunning.
With the Supreme Court suspending the mechanism that forced Texas to get a federal OK before it can implement any election law change, state Attorney General Greg Abbott asserts that nothing now can stop the state from activating its controversial voter ID law.
“With today’s decision, the State’s voter ID law will take effect immediately,†Abbott announced. “Redistricting maps passed by the Legislature may also take effect without approval from the federal government.â€
Laughlin McDonald of the ACLU, on a call with reporters, conceded that Texas has “a very strong argument†that in light of today’s Supreme Court decision, it can implement the Voter ID law and other laws that previously required federal approval.
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About time.
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state Attorney General Greg Abbott asserts that nothing now can stop the state from activating its controversial voter ID law.
No, that doesn't sound ominous or dictatorial at all, Dallas Morning News writer. :whatever:
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Didn't Holder recently sue SC over this part? If I read this right, this part can't be enforced without section 4.
Holder blocked South Carolina's photo ID law and they in turn sued claiming it was not preventing minority voting but I have not read the SCOTUS decision and I'm not sure on Section 5's fate.
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OK. As a Southerner, it pisses me off that the Left believes we will immediately start posting guards at polling places to keep blacks from voting. I believe the VRA was needed in the days of Jim Crow; but the South has grown and is a different place now. As a matter of fact, the most racist people I know came from Ohio.
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OK. As a Southerner, it pisses me off that the Left believes we will immediately start posting guards at polling places to keep blacks from voting. I believe the VRA was needed in the days of Jim Crow; but the South has grown and is a different place now. As a matter of fact, the most racist people I know came from Ohio.
The two towns that were used in the original data have Black mayors
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OK. As a Southerner, it pisses me off that the Left believes we will immediately start posting guards at polling places to keep blacks from voting. I believe the VRA was needed in the days of Jim Crow; but the South has grown and is a different place now. As a matter of fact, the most racist people I know came from Ohio.
Try coming to Chicago for the reverse side of racism.
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Yeah after Kinston NC held a referendum to make local elections non partisan..............Just read what the Justice Department said
http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,35368.msg375419/highlight,kinston.html#msg375419
Hey Holder....
:nelson:
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About time.
Agreed. Nice to see one of the bullets taken away from the political gun of the professional race pimps.
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This ruling is long over due.
Now maybe we have a chance to get illegals, the dead and the totally made up from voting.
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Tuesday, the Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the 1965 Voting Act which allowed the government to determine which states and counties can change voting laws and procedures. Today, Obama weighed in:
The Supreme Court “made a mistake.â€
Not, “I disagree with the decision,†or, “We’ll just have to agree to disagree.†But a mistake. Call me picky, but a guy who is never wrong – never at fault for anything – calling out the Supreme Court (again) for making a “mistake†– an error in judgement, if you will – comes across as a tad bit arrogant, in my book.
In a 5-4 ruling, the Court said it could no longer enforce a requirement that states or localities with a history of discrimination must get federal government approval before changing their election laws or the way they hold elections.
As part of his assessment of SCOTUS’ “mistake,†Obama added that the law was a “cornerstone of democracy†and the High Court “failed to recognize†the degree to which voter suppression is a problem throughout the nation (although, apparently not in Baltimore, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and several other areas which enjoyed in excess of 100% voter turnout in the 2012 presidential election).
The Court said Congress must come up with a new way of determining which states and localities require federal monitoring of elections. Obama promptly urged Congress to figure out how to make it easier for people to vote.
http://www.ijreview.com/2013/06/61835-obama-scotus-made-a-mistake-in-voting-act-ruling/