You get it now don’t you???....Scalia was right...

[busterbrown]

There is no longer reason to assume that racial prejudice in this country justifies the Voting Rights Bill.
How right you are sir...Not a reason in the fucking world to assume that there is still a problem here.

[defacto7]

1. I'm drinkin' again Buster

but this time I'm not mellow.

[busterbrown]

3. Defacto my friend..

Jim says it about 15 seconds in . “Everything is Fucked Up”
O.K. to be pissed, we all are.

[Tx4obama]

2. Regarding the Voting Rights Act, have you seen this...

Experts: Texas Possibly Subject to Preclearance Under Voting Rights Act; Suits Filed

June saw the gutting of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Court collaterally attacked Section 5 of the VRA, which requires preclearance of voting and elections laws by states such as Texas, by striking down Section 4. By declaring Section 4 unconstitutional, the Court made it impossible to apply the Section 5 preclearance requirement.

Initial reaction focused on the presumptive death of the VRA and the almost certain enactment and implementation of discriminatory voting laws, yet much of that initial analysis neglected Section 3 of the VRA.

On Tuesday, Sahil Kapur wrote in TalkingPointsMemo that Texas and other states could still be subjected to preclearance requirements, despite the Court's June ruling.

"Section 3 of the Voting Rights Act lets courts add a state or local government to the preclearance requirement if it is found to have enacted intentionally discriminatory voting measures. The Supreme Court left that part of the Voting Rights Act intact; it invalidated Section 4, which includes the formula that Congress established to determine which state and local governments are to face that extra scrutiny automatically."

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Full article here: http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/13777/experts-texas-possibly-subject-to-preclearance-under-voting-rights-act-suits-filed

[drm604]

4. Interesting.

I wonder how many other states or local governments may fall under this?

[blkmusclmachine]

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