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That's my favorite line. Out here in the Bay area, a lot of the people who speak ill of the case will say, “Why does it matter that he's black?” I'm over the ignorance as of the day I was born.

This is predictable modern racism in a fancy new hat. One of my biggest fears was that people would use the recent election as a guise to undo so much progress – and by progress, I don't mean the holding of hands and chanting “Yes We Can” with people of different races. I”m talking about the legal battles that are being challenged on a daily basis.

Gather your armor. The battle of principalities has begun once again.

It's nice to get a couple of posts up on the subject. The more information, the beter. dna's information on the Congressional investigations helps a lot. I hope our posts generate more discussion.

Stay tuned. This doesn't pass the smell test.

You and I appear to be in total agreement on this issue.

Of course they will be going to the 'activist judges' on the US Supreme court..now that they have some to rule in their favor.

GOP is just FOS. They were cowards and wouldn't pass legislation which is how stuff ended up in the courts and they then wanted to attacked the judges as 'activist'

Now, just like you said they are in the minority and what are they going to do…seek out activist judges.

Such hypocrites.

Never said I supported any bail-outs. Just mentioning the fact that bail-outs do exist (as outlined in section 4). As far as I can tell, this bail-out provision also applies to section 5.

In fact, I had a conversation with Miranda yesterday where I expressed that I'd prefer to expand the section 5 provision to include more states — especially since some of the most troubling instances of voter suppression have taken place in the north as of late.

But if a jurisdiction can apply for a bail-out I see no reason why a court challenge such as this is even necessary. That's why this news is particularly troublesome. It's an overly aggressive move by the petitioner when it appears that alternative avenues are available (not saying that I support such alternatives, but the law has safety measures to handle things like this).

But it's important that we keep an eye on stuff like this. Oddly enough, conservatives might begin to look towards the Supreme Court more often (5-4 conservative lean) now that they've lost control of the House, Senate and Executive branch. I just saw that there's another challenge that the Court's going to hear involving a so-called “equal treatment” standard — which looks like just another way to attack affirmative action.

I knew my fellow JJP bloggers would be all over this.

Props to you and B-Serious

The more things change the more they remain the same
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The entire reason there were so many restrictive voting laws is so that the Democratic Racist party would remain in power in the South. Those so-called 'sons of the south' who are legacy Democrats were the leaders of KKK and the CCC…and they were the ones with the poll tax and voting intimidation tactics.

They were so afraid if blacks were able to vote, they would all vote in a block for GOP and you know what they were right, at the time.

Today, thanks to the landmark Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act the vast majority of those racists defected from the Democratic party in the South and became the GOP party..so OF COURSE, they want to bring back all their old legislative 'states'rights' rules…it is nothing but a way to wrench back the power they welded so viciously.

They can no more be trusted today than they could be in 1950 and Congress saw that. Even Arlen Specter who was the Senate Judiciary chair understood that. But of course, it was one of those times when his religion took precedent over the party. As a Jew, he knows what discrimination looks like..

Unlike you, B-serious, I do not think there should be a way to get off pre-clearance status..once any of these Southern states do so, they will immediately dismantle gains and reinstitute old ways of keeping POC down and away from the voting booth.

There is simply no reason to believe otherwise, given the large population of POC in the South. It will be as pervasive in the north as well, where re-districting has made us have less political power as black politicians primarily represent minoritymajority districts…ugh.

POC will need to be forever vigilante and the Justice Dept will need to have the power to force those states to remain in line.

That's my favorite line. Out here in the Bay area, a lot of the people who speak ill of the case will say, “Why does it matter that he's black?” I'm over the ignorance as of the day I was born.

This is predictable modern racism in a fancy new hat. One of my biggest fears was that people would use the recent election as a guise to undo so much progress – and by progress, I don't mean the holding of hands and chanting “Yes We Can” with people of different races. I”m talking about the legal battles that are being challenged on a daily basis.

Gather your armor. The battle of principalities has begun once again.

It's nice to get a couple of posts up on the subject. The more information, the beter. dna's information on the Congressional investigations helps a lot. I hope our posts generate more discussion.

Stay tuned. This doesn't pass the smell test.

That's my favorite line. Out here in the Bay area, a lot of the people who speak ill of the case will say, “Why does it matter that he's black?” I'm over the ignorance as of the day I was born.

This is predictable modern racism in a fancy new hat. One of my biggest fears was that people would use the recent election as a guise to undo so much progress – and by progress, I don't mean the holding of hands and chanting “Yes We Can” with people of different races. I”m talking about the legal battles that are being challenged on a daily basis.

Gather your armor. The battle of principalities has begun once again.

It's nice to get a couple of posts up on the subject. The more information, the beter. dna's information on the Congressional investigations helps a lot. I hope our posts generate more discussion.

Stay tuned. This doesn't pass the smell test.