Posted on 03/01/2013 5:09:05 PM PST by BradtotheBone
Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee said she was offended by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dismissal of the 1965 Voting Rights Act as a racial “entitlement.”
“Whenever a society adopts racial entitlements, it is very difficult to get out of them through the normal political processes,” Scalia said during Supreme Court debate in the Shelby County (Alabama) voting rights case earlier this week.
Jackson Lee, who visited the courtroom during the case, said the provision of the Act under question was not a racial entitlement.
“It simply says that you will have the right to vote that has been given to all citizens,” the Houston Democrat said on MSNBC’s Ed Show. “Why a justice would classify the simple protected right to vote as ‘racial entitlements’ baffles me and offends me.”
Scalia, one of the court’s most conservative voices, said that political pressure will prevent lawmakers from voting against the measure. The Act was last renewed by a 98 to 0 vote in the Senate and a 390 vote majority in the 435-member House.
Jackson Lee spoke of the voting rights problems in the Lone Star State on the interview. She said the GOP-authored state voter photo identification law was discriminatory. Jackson Lee noted that you could not use a student ID or a Texas state-issued ID, but could use a concealed firearm permit as identification. Jackson Lee said the section of the Voting Rights Act which Scalia disputed helped strike down this law.
“Next year they could make another law to block voting, and section five stands there as a codification of the Constitution to block those kinds of laws,” Jackson Lee said.
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Jordan was a despicable DemonRAT in virtually every way. Sure, she was tolerable when it came to cracking down on illegal aliens but the rest of her position were straight out of the commie playbook: support for the vile Community Reinvestment Act that led to the Dodd-Frank financial crisis of 2008, support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act and favoring affirmative action. That Jordan character was also a sodomite, keeping her lesbian partner well concealed. If anything Barbara Jordan would be leading a standing ovation for Sheila Jackson Lee. And I have no doubt that Jordan would be an Obama sycophant, backing his program to turn America into a socialist welfare state.
Ranks right up there with Guam tipping over.
I do not feel in the least bit morally or legally bound by any decisions made or laws passed by these people.
Sheila Jackson-Lee, Maxine Waters, Hank Johnson and other congress critters being in congress that all persons entering a voting booth should be required to recite the words of the Constitution up to the second comma.
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union,”
Ov courcse, dat wod bees racist kause dee honkies be hav’in dee ad vantages cause dey kan reed.
I disagree. She was the product of a different time and place. And your opinion was not shared by a lot of people on the other side who knew her.
SJL’s congressional seat is a racial entitlement due to gerrymandering of districts.
I’ll go you one better: Change voting rights back to where only landowners can vote.
Hey, now. No reason to start insulting slugs.
I really do appreciate your response and although we do obviously disagree, I like to know what's admirable about Barbara Jordan. I'll confess that she left office shortly before I arrived here in Texas so, unlike you, I don't have firsthand experience of how she governed. And honestly, I am unaware of anything good about her save for her stand on illegal aliens.
Since she was a DemonRAT, that's a big strike against her in my book. Although Richard Nixon did have his faults, I thought her speech calling for his impeachment was hateful and degenerated into personal attacks. Plus, I found her clipped manner of speaking to be contrived, condescending and arrogant. Granted, my perspective during the time she was in power comes from afar, but she impressed me as just another race hustler, albeit one with a different tone. Her 1976 speech to the DNC was a string of cliches and typical leftist 'Rat talking points.
If I'm wrong on any of this, I'll reconsider my longtime opinion of Barbara Jordan, whom I do hold in very low esteem.
“We are one, we Americans, and we reject any intruder who seeks to divide us by race or class. We honor cultural identity. However, separatism is not allowed. Separatism is not the American way. And we should not permit ideas like political correctness to become some fad that could reverse our hard-won achievements in civil rights and human rights. Xenophobia has no place in the Democratic Party. We seek to unite people not divide them and we reject both white racism and black racism. This party will not tolerate bigotry under any guise. America’s strength is rooted in its diversity.”
- Barbara Jordon, Texas 18th Congressional District
So far, so good.
"America’s strength is rooted in its diversity.” -- Barbara Jordon
And she had to keep on talking and utter this multicultural garbage straight from the race hustler types like Jackson, Sharpton, Holder and Obama's lil' buddy from Cambridge, Skippy Gates.
Very good.
That's probably because you don't have to be a citizen of Texas to go to a college there, but you do need to be a citizen to have a Texas issued concealed firearm permit. Unless Jackson Lee is saying she encourages ineligible voters to cast ballots in Texas elections.
The provision may not have been a racial entitlement, the practice certainly is.
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