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In reply to the discussion: Scalia: Voting Rights Act Is ‘Perpetuation Of Racial Entitlement’ [View all]John2
(2,730 posts)have still been yes after considering your answer. I would not have cut it off to just data at some small period in time. I would have used all the empirical data in research studies. The purpose of the Voting Rights Law was enacted because of the South. Measures within the Voting Rights Law were placed there to strengthen the law because Southern Legislatures found ways to skirt around Federal Law for the purposes of Discrimination. There are measures in the Law to opt out, based on performance.
Racial Discrimination for the purposes of voting is also done on a political scale. That is clearly seen by the Party these judges against the Law are in. The last Election cycles are clear evidence of the Republican Party's systematic attempts on a larger scale to deny voting rights to minorities. And there should be a lot more cases from the DOJ, on a larger scale against the Republican Party. I would not play footsies with them. The DOJ in fact should have joined the International community, when it was invited in to monitor the U.S. Election by Civil Rights groups instead of being cowed by the Republican Party.
My stance is the Republican Party is dangerous to American Democracy and the gains it has made ever since the Civil War. The Republican Party has morphed in to the Party of States' Rights, dominated by white supremacists, mostly from southern Politicians. The attempts by at least four Justices on the Court are clear evidence to me. The same Court that broke precedent and interfered in the Presidential election of 2000 within a state.
The bottom line is the Voting Rights Act is the clear Law of the land. I don't know why it is being revisited every incremental stage by this Supreme Court, when abusers of the Law seek reprieve? It has been clearly Constitutional by other U.S. Supreme Courts ever since enacted. That is why this has the appearance of politicization. They appear to want the law weaken. What is the difference in weakening the law for everyone that wants to break laws because it happens somewhere else? If anything the law is working very well. If anything, the Law should be used more in other places. And if it did, it will probably not be good for the Republican Party because they appear to be the biggest offenders currently.