We will not be taking back the House anytime soon.

[cali]

The gutting of the Voting Act Right ensured that.

Even as I type, repubs and ALEC, in state after state, are busy, busy, busy putting the finishing touches on voting laws and redistricting maps that suppress the ever living hell out of minority votes.

Largely this decision is about enshrining legal discrimination.

Apologies for linking to my own ops:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023115848

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023111150

[arcane1]

1. All the more reason to add more focus to state and local elections.

That's where the action is!

[cali]

3. yes, we always should focus on those

but this decision will make it that much harder. in many states they will carve out districts that disenfranchise minorities.

[Andy823]

7. We do have one chance

If enough tea party groups decide to run primary challengers against those they don't think are conservative enough, it could help democrats. That might even work in local races where there are enough of the old guard republicans who really don't like the tea party groups anyway. Some of them won't vote for a democrat, but they would just stay home and not vote at all. Last year one women who's family have been republicans their entire life, most in this area are life long republicans, backed the democrat instead of the tea party nut, she was even the guys treasurer, so strange things do happen.

One thing they can't stop is voting for governor, and that would at least be a good start. Of course we also have 2016 when we can put another democrat in the WH to make sure we get liberal judges in the Supreme Court when appointments come up, and that is a big plus.

[Cleita]

2. We could all see it coming and were helpless to do anything about it.

[Half-Century Man]

4. If it were easy, it would lack the warm...

...feeling when we take the States anyway.

[madrchsod]

5. here`s my opinion...

there`s several generations of minorities that have grown up during the voting act. i doubt they will be willing to roll over and play dead during the next election.

the court can rule but it cannot stop the citizens of this country from voting. if we accept they can then those who died for the right to vote died in vain.

as the song goes...."don't let no injunction turn you around"

[cali]

6. alas, the court has given its permission for states like TX

to carve up districts to disenfranchise minority voters, so even if minorities vote, their vote is devalued. I don't think it's a matter of rolling over or not rolling over. As the Federal Appeals Court said about the TX laws which are now in effect, they are designed to be discriminatory. It's a huge hurdle.

[msongs]

8. ya gotta give people something worth voting for and republican-lite isn't it nt

[cali]

10. that has jack to do with my op. zip. zilch.

and are you saying that every democrat in every district is repub lite? Are you saying John Lewis, for example, is repub lite?

The op is about the disenfranchisement of minorities and the muting of their votes. Plenty of people who want to vote will be disenfranchised.

Who gives a damn whether you approve of their choices?

[Faryn Balyncd]

9. The SS turning loose the wolves may be the most significant decision since Brown vs BOE...

[cali]

11. that and Citizens United

[Faryn Balyncd]

12. ...a one, two kick i the gut to the Constitution.