Maher: Justice Roberts pulled Voting Rights Act decision ‘out of his ass’
Bill Maher raged at Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday over the high court’s decision to effectively cripple the Voting Rights Act (VRA) on Tuesday, Mediaite reported.
“Just the fact that he talks about black people voting as an ‘entitlement,’ that is so much more racist than anything Paula Deen ever said,” Maher told his Real Time panelists after reading remarks from Scalia, adding that he didn’t know how he ended up becoming Deen’s “champion,” since he would have confused her for former televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker just a year ago.
“We have replaced having a conversation about race with, ‘Oh, liberals feel good about themselves if they make the bad person go away,’” Maher said to the panel. “‘Who’s the bad person? The one we caught saying that one word.’”
Maher pointed to 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard A. Posner’s criticism that he had never heard of the “fundamental principle of equal sovereignty” of the states, which the high court cited in striking down Section IV of the VRA, saying, Justice Roberts’ opinion “rests on air.”
“In other words, Justice Roberts just pulled [it] out of his ass,” Maher said. “This is what I love about the Supreme Court. You think that they’re so high-minded and you hear the things Scalia says. He quotes talking points from Fox News.”
Maher also cited conservative political figures Donald Trump, Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich as examples of “worse racists” than Deen who remained in the public spotlight because they hadn’t used a particular racist slur.
“You’re welcome to say that,” conservative commentator Horace Cooper responded. “What the law is is what Congress passed. And Congress didn’t pass a law that says, ‘You can’t say shuck and jive.’”
More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/29/maher-justice-roberts-pulled-voting-rights-act-decision-out-of-his-ass/
