Bad Day For Voting Rights Act

The US Supreme Court handed down a decision which is a major defeat for Voting Rights Act advocates and beneficiaries. This is huge. Check it out.

"The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that states can no longer be judged by voting discrimination that went on decades ago, in a decision that marks the end of a major civil-rights era reform.

The 5-4 ruling rewrites a key tool of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which for five decades has given the federal government unprecedented say in everything from how some states draw their congressional maps to where they place polling locations.

But the justices said after five decades, the law has had a dramatic effect in ending discrimination in voting, and said Congress must now come up with new ways of deciding who still needs federal oversight.

Beneath the legal ruling is a broader social statement, with the justices saying that a state cannot be perpetually held responsible for past discrimination if there’s no evidence that it still exists.

“Congress —if it is to divide the states — must identify those jurisdictions to be singled out on a basis that makes sense in light of current conditions. It cannot rely simply on the past,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote for the majority..."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jun/25/court-past-voting-discrimination-no-longer-held/

 

Those in power now have more effective methods of voter fraud...this one is obsolete.

 

Use this decision to throw in the face of our enemies. They are very upset about it. Pour salt into their wounds.

 

http://www.politicalforum.com/curre...kes-down-key-part-1965-voting-rights-act.html

 

i think it's going to backfire on roberts

the ruling requires congress to update the 'voting rights act of 1965'

 

You're prolly right. He's most likely trying to redeem himself after the disaster of saying Obamacare is Constitutional, but it's too late, everyone knows now he's just a political puppet.

 

Not going to happen. Conservatives have no incentives to cooperate with their enemies.

 

Pretty much. Hell they don't even try and hide the gerrymandering both parties use to their political advantage these days.

 

what are you talking about?

 

Good Grief, now a Democratic State Rep from Minnesota upset with the vote, calls Justice Thomas an "Uncle Thomas", deletes the tweet and then denies he had any knowledge that it is a racial term. (btw, the clown was a history major)

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news...aker-hits-justice-uncle-thomas/#ixzz2XGVYfvIw

 

What has Uncle Tom Obama done for black people?

 

"...the gerrymandering both parties use to their political advantage these days."

Taxcutter says:

These days?

The gerrymander is named for Elbridge Gerry - a Framer of the Constitution.

 

The fact it only took 2 hours after the ruling for Texas to push through it's redistricting plan should raise a big red flag that it was a vital part of the Voting Rights Act.

Sad.