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: Holding: Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. Its formula can no longer be used as a basis for subjecting jurisdictions to preclearance.
From SCOTUSblog
“Our decision in no way affects the permanent, nationwide ban on racial discrimination in voting found in [Section] 2. We issue no holding on [Section] 5 itself, only on the coverage formula. Congress may draft another formula based on current conditions”
The communists finally lose one.
bttt
Fantastic news, from the headline, anyway!!!
Any qualifiers?
Wonder what the vote was?
Section 5 is the section at issue, not 4
Does this mean that the South is beginning to emerge from “occupied territory” status?
They'll do whatever they want.
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My, my, my! Ain't we just the smartest-of-the-smart when it comes to gettin' screwed by the Feds.
The Supreme Court struck down a key part of the Voting Rights Act Monday, a cornerstone of the civil rights movement that helped dismantle decades of discriminatory voting restrictions in the South when it passed 60 years ago. The vote was 5-4, with the court's liberal justices dissenting.
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Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, reauthorized by Congress in 2006, gives the federal government the ability to pre-emptively reject changes to election law in states and counties that have a history of discriminating against minority voters. The law covers nine states and portions of seven more, most of them in the South. The formula used to decide which states are subject to this special scrutiny (set out in Section 4 of the law) is based on decades-old voter turnout and registration data, the justices ruled, which is unfair to the states covered under it.
Supreme Court strikes down key part of Voting Rights Act(yahoo news today)
MSNBC will be burning tonight, at least this will dampen their celibration if the gay rights cases go bad.
Our Fing communist administration will just ignore this and anything else that has an effect on its plans.
Sounds like good news, but the short article begins discussing Section 4 and then jumps to Section 5 and it’s not clear exactly what’s been shot down. There’s usually a lag between the first announcement and a clear understanding of what a ruling means.
For example, in N.C. 40 of 100 counties are, or were, "covered" under Sec. 5:
Congress, who placed these counties on this list in 1965, can draw up a new list (or make federal pre-clearance universal).
Preclearance comes either from a Three-Judge federal panel or from the DOJ Civil Rights Division (or both, in some cases.)
There are some redistricting plans presently in litigation, and how they are or are not affected I don't yet know.
Holder LOSES!
Well, well, well....one of Eric Holder’s (and of his thugs in the Department of “Justice”) toys just got taken away. A toy he used to oppress political jurisdictions with whom he had political disagreements regarding voting laws.
Does this mean Alabama is “Free At Last”?
Southern states, implement Voter ID immediately.