VRWC white supremacist SCOTUS guts Voting Rights Act

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5 - 4, natcherly



Voting Rights Act Section 4 Struck Down By Supreme Court

The Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act on Tuesday, the provision of the landmark civil rights law that designates which parts of the country must have changes to their voting laws cleared by the federal government or in federal court.

The 5-4 ruling, authored by Chief Justice John Roberts joined by Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, found that “things have changed dramatically” in the South nearly 50 years after the Voting Rights Act was signed.

The court’s opinion said it did not strike down the act of Congress “lightly,” and said it “took care to avoid ruling on the cons utionality of the Voting Rights Act” back in 2009. “Congress could have updated the coverage formula at that time, but did not do so. Its failure to act leaves us today with no choice but to declare [Section 4] uncons utional. The formula in that section can no longer be used as a basis for subjecting jurisdictions to preclearance.”

Congress, the court ruled, “may draft another formula based on current conditions.”

“Our country has changed, and while any racial discrimination in voting is too much, Congress must ensure that the legislation it passes to remedy that problem speaks to current conditions,” the majority said.

Nevertheless, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg issued a wide-ranging dissent on behalf of herself and Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan, justifying the continued vitality of the Voting Rights Act's preclearance provision.

"The sad irony of today’s decision lies in its utter failure to grasp why the VRA has proven effective," Ginsburg wrote. "The Court appears to believe that the VRA’s success in eliminating the specific devices extant in 1965 means that preclear*ance is no longer needed."

As for Section 4, Ginsburg wrote that "the record for the 2006 reauthorization makes abundantly clear [that] second-generation barriers to minority voting rights have emerged in the covered jurisdictions as at*tempted subs utes for the
first-generation barriers that originally triggered preclearance in those jurisdictions."


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3429810.html

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SUPREME COURT FREES AMERICANS FROM BURDEN OF VOTING


WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) — By a five-to-four vote, the Supreme Court today acted, in the words of Justice Antonin Scalia, “to relieve millions of Americans from the onerous burden of having to vote.”

Writing for the majority, Justice Scalia stated, “Since 1965, citizens across the nation have lived under the tyranny of being forced to elect people to represent them. This is an important step to free them from that unfair and heinous obligation.”

Justice Scalia added that the Voting Rights Act had “thrust upon the shoulders of millions of Americans the terrible and unwanted burden of exercising their rights in a democracy.”

“Many of them have been forced to drive to polling places, wait in line, and then cast their vote because of the oppressive requirements of this Act,” he wrote. “It is our honor and duty to free them from those hardships.”

In conclusion, Justice Scalia wrote, “Our message today to the American people is simple: we are voting so you won’t have to.”

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...rowitz%20(145)

[ElNono]

meltdown

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

I think this ruling makes Clarence Thomas history's GOAT uncle tom.

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Conservatives Celebrate Gutting Of Voting Rights Act


Writing at National Review, a magazine that defended segregation and has more recently published pieces by white nationalists and “race realists,” John Fund suggested that “The Supreme Court’s decision today to overturn a small part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is actually a victory for civil rights.”


“As the court noted,” Fund continued, “what made sense both in moral and practical terms almost a half century ago has to be approached anew.” What Fund calls a “small” portion of the VRA, the “preclearance” power the Court severely limited, represented the sole stumbling block preventing several racially discriminatory laws from going into effect.

True the Vote, a conservative group that pushed for precisely these laws, also celebrated the Court’s ruling. “This is without doubt a step in the right direction for our Republic,” Catherine Engelbrecht, the group’s Vice-President, said. True the Vote has been instrumental in helping spread voter ID laws around the country, several of which have been preempted by the Section 5 powers the Court neutered today.

Erick Erickson, the Editor-in-Chief of RedState and a Fox News contributor, tweeted “YES! Pre-clearance uncons utional.” While technically inaccurate — the Court did not rule that the Justice Department’s Section 5 power to prevent the implementation of racially discriminatory voting laws was uncons utional, only that that the Section 4 formula for determining what jurisdictions were covered under Section 5 was — Erickson’s victory dance was right in effect, as the only path to restoring Section 5 is a highly unlikely Congressional rewrite of the Section 4 formula.

Yesterday, Erickson tweeted “Sitting at the dinner table. Realize its Paula Deen branded furniture. Quite nice. Seats ten.” Deen is currently under fire for using the word “******” and dreaming about a “southern plantation-style wedding” with black servers and white guests; National Review’s VRA piece had a banner link at the top to a piece led “In Defense of Paula Deen.”

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...ng-rights-act/

Repugs and racists are the ones melting down over their VRWC SCOTUS victory, and more to come....

[TeyshaBlue]

lol thinkprogress.

Such a small mind you have.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/25/sup...ority-turnout/

[TeyshaBlue]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...-need-to-know/

lol thinkprogress deux

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Holder Vows ‘Swift Enforcement Action’ Against Any Efforts To Exploit SCOTUS Voting Rights Act Ruling


Attorney General Eric Holder denounced the Supreme Court’s ruling against the Voting Rights Act on Tuesday, and warned in a televised statement that despite the “serious and unnecessary setback” the Obama administration will vigorously enforce the law against any state or local government that seeks to discriminate against the rights of voters.

“The Department of Justice will continue to carefully monitor jurisdictions around the country for voting changes that may hamper voting rights,” Holder said. “Let me be very clear: we will not hesitate to take swift enforcement action — using every legal tool that remains available to us — against any jurisdiction that seeks to take advantage of the Supreme Court’s ruling by hindering eligible citizens’ full and free exercise of the franchise.”

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/06/eric-holder-voting-rights-act-supreme-court.php

[angrydude]

So I guess blacks have lost their right to vote now?

Pretty sure that's what I'm going to be hearing for the next 30 years.

[Koolaid_Man]

5 - 4, natcherly



Voting Rights Act Section 4 Struck Down By Supreme Court

The Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act on Tuesday, the provision of the landmark civil rights law that designates which parts of the country must have changes to their voting laws cleared by the federal government or in federal court.

The 5-4 ruling, authored by Chief Justice John Roberts joined by Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, found that “things have changed dramatically” in the South nearly 50 years after the Voting Rights Act was signed.

The court’s opinion said it did not strike down the act of Congress “lightly,” and said it “took care to avoid ruling on the cons utionality of the Voting Rights Act” back in 2009. “Congress could have updated the coverage formula at that time, but did not do so. Its failure to act leaves us today with no choice but to declare [Section 4] uncons utional. The formula in that section can no longer be used as a basis for subjecting jurisdictions to preclearance.”

Congress, the court ruled, “may draft another formula based on current conditions.”

“Our country has changed, and while any racial discrimination in voting is too much, Congress must ensure that the legislation it passes to remedy that problem speaks to current conditions,” the majority said.

Nevertheless, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg issued a wide-ranging dissent on behalf of herself and Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan, justifying the continued vitality of the Voting Rights Act's preclearance provision.

"The sad irony of today’s decision lies in its utter failure to grasp why the VRA has proven effective," Ginsburg wrote. "The Court appears to believe that the VRA’s success in eliminating the specific devices extant in 1965 means that preclear*ance is no longer needed."

As for Section 4, Ginsburg wrote that "the record for the 2006 reauthorization makes abundantly clear [that] second-generation barriers to minority voting rights have emerged in the covered jurisdictions as at*tempted subs utes for the
first-generation barriers that originally triggered preclearance in those jurisdictions."


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3429810.html

Clarence Thomas is the worst kinda negro....he literally hates his skin...I mean he hates being black real bad...dude has a mental sickness...he's just a dumb mutha er..he sits on the court and never says a gotdam word..just looking like the dumb er he is

[Koolaid_Man]

SCalia looks like a corrupt ...just look at em..dude out to be in prison...what a ing racist son of

[resistanze]

I think this ruling makes Clarence Thomas history's GOAT uncle tom.

@ his pic above, straight off the plantation. Reminds me of Samuel L. Jackson from Django.

[Koolaid_Man]

here's Clarence Thomas live:

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No sooner had the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965, after two hundred years of slavery and nearly 100 years of Jim Crow, than Southern conservatives, who failed to stop the law, began to attack it. South Carolina mounted the first cons utional challenge to the law only a month after it was enacted. President Nixon tried to weaken the law take the “monkey…off the backs off the South,” as did Presidents Ford in 1975 and Reagan in 1982. Every effort to gut the VRA failed. Each time the law’s cons utionality was challenged, in 1966, 1973, 1980 and 1999, the Supreme Court upheld the act. Every congressional reauthorization, in 1970, 1975, 1982 and 2006, made the law stronger, not weaker, in protecting voting rights. Each Congressional reauthorization was signed by a Republican president, cementing the bipartisan consensus supporting the VRA. “The Voting Rights Act became one of the most consequential, efficacious, and amply justified exercises of federal legislative power in our Nation’s history,” Justice Ginsburg wrote in herdissent today.

That consensus held until now, with the Roberts Court finding that Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act is uncons utional. Section 4 is how states are covered under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, the provision which requires states with the worst history of voting discrimination—those who had a discriminatory voting device on the books and voter turnout of less than 50 percent in the 1964 election—to preclear their voting changes with the federal government. Without Section 4, there’s no Section 5. The most effective provision of the country’s most effective civil rights law is now dead until and unless Congress figures out a new way to cover states where voting discrimination is most prevalent that satisfies the Roberts Court.

Explained the Chief Justice, who has been trying to weaken the VRA ever since he was a young lawyer in the Reagan Justice Department: “Nearly 50 years later, things have changed dramatically. Largely because of the Voting Rights Act, ‘[v]oter turnout and registration rates’ in covered jurisdictions ‘now approach parity. Blatantly discriminatory evasions of federal decrees are rare. And minority candidates hold office at unprecedented levels.’ The tests and devices that blocked ballot access have been forbidden nationwide for over 40 years. Yet the Act has not eased Section 5’s restrictions or narrowed the scope of Section 4’s coverage formula along the way. Instead those extraordinary and unprecedented features have been reauthorized as if nothing has changed, and they have grown even stronger…. In 1965, the States could be divided into those with a recent history of voting tests and low voter registration and turnout and those without those characteristics. Congress based its coverage formula on that distinction. Today the Nation is no longer divided along those lines, yet the Voting Rights Act continues to treat it as if it were.”

http://www.thenation.com/blog/174973...l=emailNation#

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

Clarence Thomas is the worst kinda negro....he literally hates his skin...I mean he hates being black real bad...dude has a mental sickness...he's just a dumb mutha er..he sits on the court and never says a gotdam word..just looking like the dumb er he is

Occasionally he'll look at massa Scalia and ask him if he's unsure of how to vote.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

SCalia looks like a corrupt ...just look at em..dude out to be in prison...what a ing racist son of

Scalia and Alito are both fascist dego wop pieces of , they just add to the mountain of evidence about how slimy and untrustworthy Italians are

[Ashy Larry]

the country has grown over the last 50 years .... just hope because ths act was shot down, it doesn't all of a sudden go back with stupid ass rules.

"I have a state ID but I don't drive." "Sorry ma'am, you must have a state driver's license in order to vote" type of .

[baseline bum]

this supreme court. Amazing to have a branch of the government worse than the current president and worse than the piece of congress.

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maybe it's an eye tye thing, but I think it's more an authoritarian papist Catholic influence. Alito, John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy are all mackerel snappers, a Catholic majority.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

the country has grown over the last 50 years .... just hope because ths act was shot down, it doesn't all of a sudden go back with stupid ass rules.

"I have a state ID but I don't drive." "Sorry ma'am, you must have a state driver's license in order to vote" type of .

They already do that in inner city Miami. It's not some strange coincidence or innocent incompetence that every 4 years Miami has a polling disaster with long lines and 8 hour waits for voters in black areas.

[Ashy Larry]

They already do that in inner city Miami. It's not some strange coincidence or innocent incompetence that every 4 years Miami has a polling disaster with long lines and 8 hour waits for voters in black areas.

yeah, when my old lady was living in Orlando, she said that was a constant in Florida. How is it that we're the lone superpower on the planet but can't get simple right. Check Box A or B and we find some way to that up.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

High schools in the South also still have segregated proms and Mississippi didn't even have slavery officially outlawed prior to last year

The only reason the "Days of Jim Crow and fire hoses" are over in places like Mississippi and Alabama is because of federal laws preventing them from bringing those days back. Every year there are still SEC football games with people chanting "the South will rise again!"

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

yeah, when my old lady was living in Orlando, she said that was a constant in Florida. How is it that we're the lone superpower on the planet but can't get simple right. Check Box A or B and we find some way to that up.

The people in charge of Florida polling got it completely right because it was exactly the way they wanted it. Jeb managed to swing the entire election for his brother in 2000 with a deliberately confusing ballot and denying blacks the right to vote, while they made it a lot closer in 2012 than it would have been if urban Miami areas didn't have 8 hour waits. It wouldn't have impacted the election but Romney did almost win Florida because of it.

[Ashy Larry]

The South. Just backwards as . Damn, can you imagine if those s did win the Civil War? I'd be ed.

[Ashy Larry]

The people in charge of Florida polling got it completely right because it was exactly the way they wanted it. Jeb managed to swing the entire election for his brother in 2000 with a deliberately confusing ballot and denying blacks the right to vote, while they made it a lot closer in 2012 than it would have been if urban Miami areas didn't have 8 hour waits. It wouldn't have impacted the election but Romney did almost win Florida because of it.

That's crazy. Think about that for a second. How many Voting machines did they have at certain polls? about three to take care of 50,000 people. And one "mysteriously" probably broke down.