BREAKING: Supreme Court strikes down major provision of the Voting Rights Act as unconstitutional

[Are_grits_groceries]

@ctuckerprof: Un-oh RT @thinkprogress: BREAKING: Supreme Court strikes down major provision of the Voting Rights Act as unconstitutional

Thank you 5 SCOTUS privileged jackasses who have no idea what this will do.

[Va Lefty]

1. Oh, I think they know exactly what this will do!

[Catherina]

11. +1 n/t

[Are_grits_groceries]

19. In one sense they do.

However, they have not had to deal with the reality in the places affected. They are operating from a delusional ivory tower that deals in abstracts.

They have never had to work to keep people enfranchised in the EFFING TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. It would be nice to live in a country where voting is an easy process or all. It is still a bare knuckles fight in back alleys as well as in more prominent places.

Madame DeFarge is now knitting even faster.

[MADem]

2. I just heard....they didn't strike it all down, though, but this can't be good, nonetheless. nt

[AngryOldDem]

4. Major provision was struck down, from what I've heard.

Not good at all.

[Are_grits_groceries]

3. One more fight

to keep rights from being curtailed. Probably the most important one.

[suffragette]

5. Damn

[femmocrat]

6. Al Sharpton (MSNBC) calls it "devastating".

Rev. Al calls for "mass mobilizations." Leaving it to THIS congress??? How realistic is that!

This is a dark day in America, for sure.

[cali]

7. we knew that was going to happen.

despicable fucks.

[alsame]

8. Very predictable, unfortunately. The only way

the GOP can win national elections is through massive voter suppression.

[marmar]

9. The only good in all of this is that it might spark a new wave of activism and action.

Moral Mondays everywhere.

[MADem]

12. I thought the same (desperately looking for pony) thing. Could help in the upcoming mid-terms.

It is a rallying point.

I just wish we didn't have to keep fighting so hard....over such BASIC shit.

[marmar]

14. 'over such BASIC shit'

Yep. Civil rights, abortion rights -- some people really are determined to repeal the 20th century.

[MADem]

15. I swear, they'd repeal our right to gravity, and charge us for it, if they could. nt

[IdaBriggs]

38. Wow - AMAZING line. I'm going to be quoting you with that one!

[marions ghost]

16. They keep us fighting for basic shit

so we can't get our more constructive shit done.

But fight we must.

[marions ghost]

17. Moral Mondays Everywhere

Let me second that.

[PatSeg]

29. That's entirely possible

All those attempts to disenfranchise minority voters in the last election backfired big time. People sure don't like being told they CAN'T vote.

[NoMoreWarNow]

10. section 4

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/06/25/2210121/breaking-supreme-court-kills-key-prong-of-voting-rights-act/

"Section 4 is the formula which determines which jurisdictions are subject to “preclearance” under the law, meaning that new voting laws in those jurisdictions must be reviewed by the Justice Department or a federal court before they can take effect. Although today’s opinion ostensibly would permit Congress to revive the preclearance regime by enacting a new formula that complies with today’s decision, that would require a functioning Congress — so the likely impact of today’s decision is that many areas that were unable to enact voter suppression laws under the Voting Rights Act will now be able to put those laws into effect."

Not good.

[magellan]

48. Fuck, that's a huge loss

Exactly the opposite of what we need -- standardized laws across the country.

Can we say democracy is dead here yet?

[forestpath]

13. FUCK THE SUPREME COURT.

[maryellen99]

18. what's next?

Taking away the women's right to vote? You know that's coming too.

[Triana]

25. I figure this is on their list somewhere

The American Taliban is on a roll and they're not gonna stop now.

[maryellen99]

26. of course

They all want us to be submissive to our husbands and men in general.

[malaise]

20. or put simply

Don't you 'UNs' dare vote for a black man as President

[theHandpuppet]

21. DISGUSTING

It is a dark day in America, thanks to this shameful court.

[Marr]

22. What exactly did they strike down?

Can I assume it's one of the pieces that have prevented Conservatives from repressing the vote with things like voter ID laws?

[nessa]

30. Certain states were required to go to a federal court before they could change any voting procedure.

The section of the law specifying which states was struck down. They claimed the selection of the states was based on old data. These states claim they currently have high enough voter turnout and registration among minorities and should not be singled out.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/us/supreme-court-ruling.html?_r=0

[Recursion]

41. Basically, southern States had to pre-clear voting procedures with the DoJ

But not, you know, Ohio. Which never has voter suppression problems.

[Raster]

23. The Fucked Up Five know EXACTLY what this will do.

Just like they knew exactly what Citizens United would do.

[maryellen99]

24. Sad day in this country

While minorities get their voting rights trashed, racists like Paula Deen are seen as "victims".

[JCMach1]

27. All the people who suffered and died... all the progress that was made over the years

frakking hell...

SCOTUS trying to kick the country back to 1950.

[spanone]

28. 1964 in the good 'ol usa.....

[Tree-Hugger]

31. Fuck the SCOTUS

I am Assuming that things won't go well with the DOMA or Prop8 decisions, either.

I hope people wake the Fuck up and fight back.

[Zorra]

32. The only solution is world revolution.

http://occupywallst.org/

[Recursion]

40. Then we're screwed

Because revolutions when they happen are horrible.

[Puzzledtraveller]

33. This ruling is why I am not optimistic about the forthcoming ruling

on same sex marriage.

[UTUSN]

34. Here are the creme de la scum:

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Let's see, there's the Swings One Way, the Chin Flicker, the Inaugural Squasher, the Eye Roller, and the the Totem Who Doesn't Speak.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/24/samuel-alito-rolls-eyes_n_3492704.html

[font size=5]Supreme Court Justice Draws Gasps With 'Mini-Tantrum'
Samuel Alito Rolls Eyes While Ruth Bader Ginsburg Reads Dissent[/font]

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito broke from the high court's usual decorum on Monday morning, rolling his eyes and shaking his head as his senior colleague, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, read her dissents in two cases.

Longtime Supreme Court observer Garrett Epps called it a "mini-tantrum" and "display of rudeness."

"Alito pursed his lips, rolled his eyes to the ceiling, and shook his head 'no,'" wrote Epps in the Atlantic. "He looked for all the world like Sean Penn as Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, signaling to the homies his contempt for Ray Walston as the bothersome history teacher, Mr. Hand."

He added that Alito's gestures "brought gasps from more than one person in the audience."

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank echoed Epps' admonishment:

"His treatment of the 80-year-old Ginsburg, 17 years his senior and with 13 years more seniority, was a curious display of judicial temperament, or, more accurately, judicial intemperance," Milbank wrote. "Typically, justices state their differences in words -- and Alito, as it happens, had just spoken several hundred of his own from the bench. But Alito frequently supplements words with middle-school gestures." ....

According to Milbank, 10 days earlier, Alito also "glowered" at Justice Elena Kagan and "rolled his eyes and shook his head" while Justice Sonia Sotomayor was speaking. ....

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[kentuck]

35. Screw those right-wing assholes!

Bastards!

[solara]

37. These guys are shameless

and shameful. This does not bode well

[Jarla]

36. I think it's strange that the VRA only took into account

the behavior of states prior to 1965

Why weren't ALL states re-evaluated at some point in the last 50 years?

[Recursion]

39. It's hard for me to fault the majority's logic: it should be all states

Hell, Ohio could use some VRA regulations. And Congress has the power to write them.

[DCBob]

42. This may be the beginning of the RW "re-taking" of the country.

Too bad many people are so focused on bogus scandals they probably dont even realize it.

[Democat]

45. Many here on DU are so happy bashing Obama that they won't care

Maybe they'll be happy with a Republican president and a few more right wing Supreme Court justices.

[DCBob]

47. It does seem that way at times..

but I suspect they will eventually come to their senses. Things like this should be a 2x4 to the head.

[Marrah_G]

43. Sad sad day

[Marrah_G]

44. The kitty reminds me of GD these days :)

[Skidmore]

46. I was just watching that and thinking that someone should

help that poor kitty. How cruel to just stand by and film him while he nearly drowns.