How The Left Can Use The Gutting Of The Voting Rights Act To Annihilate The GOP
A lot of people are upset about Tuesday’s Supreme Court decision to strike down Section 4 of the Voting Right’s Act. They feel that it is a direct assault on the rights of minorities who will now be at the mercy of Republican controlled legislatures. Voter ID laws will progress without that pesky “pre-clearance” interference from the Department of Justice. This is not a good day for liberals.
Via Huffington Post:
Both MSNBC and NBC simultaneously aired legal correspondent Pete Williams’ take on the case. Williams said that the Court had struck down a “key part” of the Act by ruling that one of its sections was unconstitutional.
“It’s a huge defeat for the civil rights community on the most important civil rights law ever passed,” he said.
That view was echoed across other networks. ABC’s Terry Moran, for instance, said that “right now, there is no Voting Rights Act operative in the United States.”
On the other hand, the right is quite happy about the VRA being temporarily gutted (more on that in a minute). Justice Scalia encapsulated the feeling of the perpetually aggrieved right wing of the country when he referred to the VRA as a “racial entitlement” It’s as if ensuring that black people being allowed to fairly exercise their right to vote was a deliberate assault on the rights of white people. I suppose to a conservative it might just feel that way. Head over to the Fox News comment section and they’re quite thrilled that those pesky blacks aren’t getting any special treatment now.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/06/25/why-the-supreme-court-just-screwed-the-gop/