The Neo-Confederate Supreme Court
"The Right's desperation over U.S. demographic changes has spread to the U.S. Supreme Court where its five Republican partisans appear ready to tear up the most important part of the Voting Rights Act and thus clear the way for suppressing the votes of minorities."
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/02/28/the-neo-confederate-supreme-court/
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)For their choice of (A) the GOP, or (B) the GOP masquerading as a Third Way/"New Democrat."
Bipartisanship sucks
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)Last edited Tue Mar 5, 2013, 10:51 AM - Edit history (1)
I've been feeling for a while now that Scallia is closer to the pre-Constitution Articles of Confederation that almost smothered the new country in its cradle. From this piece, it looks all too plausible that Kennedy is following the troll' s lead. From the article:
But almost as troubling was the remark from Justice Anthony Kennedy who insisted that the Voting Rights Act, which was first enacted by Congress in 1965 and was renewed overwhelmingly in 2006, was an intrusion on Alabama as an independent sovereign, states rights language reminiscent of the Old Confederacy.
Indeed, the five Republican justices also including John Roberts, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito seem to have absorbed a Neo-Confederate interpretation of the Constitution that is at odds with what the Framers intended.
The Stolen Narrative
The language about independent and sovereign states was part of the Articles of Confederation, which governed the United States from 1777 to 1787 and which proved so disastrous that George Washington and James Madison insisted that the Articles be tossed out entirely during the writing of the Constitution in 1787.
General Washington, in particular, hated the concept of independent and sovereign states because he saw the effect on his inability to secure adequate supplies and munitions for his troops during the Revolutionary War. The states often reneged on their promises to provide support, and the central government had little power. In the Articles, it was deemed a league of friendship.
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)the comprehensible history lesson in this piece. History always puts things into perspective, doesn't it? "Neo-Confederate"....how scary is that phrase?