A no-lose fix for the Voting Rights Act

[John Doe]

For every black man with a felony conviction there is at least one black man who commited a felony and did not get caught, or a liberal judge let him off.

Blacks are a race of criminals. If they are allowed to vote they vote for bigger welfare checks and more luxerous prison accomodations.

Do you really believe it, or are you just parroting Glen Beck and the Tea Party?

Most welfare cheats, mon ami, are WHITE ANGLO-SAXON PROTESTANT MALES

When and where has Glenn Beck said any such thing?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Here in Florida the Usual Suspects had apoplexy after the legislature changed the early voting calendar from like eleven, 8 hour days, to eight, 12 hour days. WE BEEN ROBBED! was the wail in all the papers. Nor were they happy with the I.D. requirement, tho most people need ID to get cigarettes, beer, and to cash a check. I read somewhere that the local paper requires photo ID to gain entry to its office.

 

[unregistered]

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Ha ha

You're funny, pretending to be this racist and ignorant

Sad thing is that they're not even trying to be creative anymore.

I suppose recycling internet schticks for losers has its place in the world, much like botflies and common household mold growths.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Lawless fucks with street names like "French Fry" and "Cheeseburger" need to suck it up, go find mom and get their real names and apply for a state ID. Big deal.

Whoa! Leave those real names out of it!

 

[Bill_S]

We, I mean my Iroquois brethren and our cousins, should ship you whites back to Europe where you belong

America was made for white men.

 

[RjThoughts]

America was made for white men.

Though the US Constitution was based on the Iroquois Articles of Confederation. Typical white man, doesn't understand history. Go drink your Budweiser out of a can, beat your wife, sit on the couch on the front porch and eat your pork rinds.

 

[Sean]

You and the other whiners on this matter need to stop using the word "gutted." In light of the fact that 41 states have been subject to the Sec. 2 enforcement provisions for the entire 48-year history of the Voting Rights Act, it just makes you look stupid.

All Texas did was enact two state laws that up until that time failed preclearance. Since the Supreme Court ruled in Shelby County that Texas should not have been subjected to preclearance by virtue of a Sec. 4 coverage formula that was unconstitutional, the Texas statutes will now be subjected to judicial review under the Sec. 2 provisions.

Texas already had a pending petition in federal court to find Sec. 5 unconstitutional. While under Sec. 5 authority, the ID and redistricting statutes were enjoined from implementation. The Court's ruling in Shelby County obviously removed that obstacle. Although the ruling did not technically moot the Texas filing, I cannot find anything that indicates they have withdrawn it.

You are certainly free to sit on your high horse and prejudge everything a Southern state does as de facto discrimination. I suspect that Texas feels it has a sovereign right to enact a voter ID law and redraw its political boundaries with respect to population gains, and that an adverse impact from either of those exercises on one or more members of a minority population is not prima facie evidence of racial discrimination.

Did the SCOTUS decision render the VRA unenforceable, yes or no? If yes, then the VRA has been gutted, spin it how you want.

And it's carte blanche for TX and other states to gerrymander and enact laws specifically designed to reduce minority voting. You're not stupid, you know that's the reason behind these types of laws, no matter what the GOP spin machine says.

 

[eyer]

We, I mean my Iroquois brethren and our cousins, should ship you whites back to Europe where you belong

Big Little Man...

 

[KingOrfeo]

We, I mean my Iroquois brethren and our cousins, should ship you whites back to Europe where you belong

You'd better still have that $26 in beads and pots, then!

 

[RjThoughts]

You'd better still have that $26 in beads and pots, then!

That was the Lenape. I'm Mohawk, you know, like the river, like Jay Silverheels, the original tv Tonto