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deminks

(11,018 posts)
Tue Jun 25, 2013, 07:32 PM Jun 2013

After all, Fat Tony told us in February that the VRA was 'racial entitlement'.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-scalias-twisted-views-reflect-supreme-court-voting-rights-case-20130625,0,6835031.story

I have read that there were gasps in the Supreme Court during arguments last February when Justice Antonin Scalia described the 1965 Voting Rights Act, one of the great achievements of the Civil Rights era, as a “racial entitlement.”

At the time, Scalia was questioning the motives of Congress, which had overwhelmingly voted to extend the act in 2006.

“And this last enactment,” said Scalia, “not a single vote in the Senate against it. And the House is pretty much the same. Now, I don’t think that’s attributable to the fact that it is so much clearer now that we need this. I think it is attributable—very likely attributable—to a phenomenon that is called ‘perpetuation of racial entitlement.’ Whenever a society adopts racial entitlements, it is very difficult to get out of them through the normal political process.”

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After all, Fat Tony told us in February that the VRA was 'racial entitlement'. (Original Post) deminks Jun 2013 OP
If there is a man who deserves impeachment, Scalia (and Thomas, to be fair) deserve it. PDJane Jun 2013 #1
Gee...who do I hate more...Fat Tony or A$$hole Alito? jessie04 Jun 2013 #2

PDJane

(10,103 posts)
1. If there is a man who deserves impeachment, Scalia (and Thomas, to be fair) deserve it.
Tue Jun 25, 2013, 07:39 PM
Jun 2013

Their links to the billionaires club are fogging their thinking processes.

 

jessie04

(1,528 posts)
2. Gee...who do I hate more...Fat Tony or A$$hole Alito?
Tue Jun 25, 2013, 07:43 PM
Jun 2013

Its tough but Fat Tony may have one redeeming quality (although I don't know what it is).

Alito is just a miserable Neanderthal dumbshit. I really despise that guy.

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