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Supreme Court Strikes Down Key Part of Voting Rights Act
New York Times ^ | June 25, 2013 | Adam Liftkk

Posted on 06/25/2013 1:54:51 PM PDT by lbryce

The Supreme Court on Tuesday effectively struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by a 5-to-4 vote, ruling that Congress had not provided adequate justification for subjecting nine states, mostly in the South, to federal oversight.

“In 1965, the states could be divided into two groups: those with a recent history of voting tests and low voter registration and turnout, and those without those characteristics,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote for the majority. “Congress based its coverage formula on that distinction. Today the nation is no longer divided along those lines, yet the Voting Rights Act continues to treat it as if it were.”

The court divided along ideological lines, and the two sides drew sharply different lessons from the history of the civil rights movement and gave very different accounts of whether racial minorities continue to face discrimination in voting.

President Obama, whose election as the nation’s first black president was cited by critics of the law as evidence that it was no longer needed, said he was “deeply disappointed” by the ruling. “Today’s decision invalidating one of its core provisions upsets decades of well-established practices that help make sure voting is fair, especially in places where voting discrimination has been historically prevalent,” he said.

The decision will have immediate practical consequences. Changes in voting procedures that had required advance federal approval, including voter identification laws and restrictions on early voting, will now be subject only to after-the-fact litigation.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: scotusvotingrights; supremecourt; votingact
President Obama, whose election as the nation’s first black president was cited by critics of the law as evidence that it was no longer needed, said he was “deeply disappointed” by the ruling.

Not as disappointed as most Americans are in your usurpation of America and all that it stands for.

1 posted on 06/25/2013 1:54:51 PM PDT by lbryce
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Obama’s ‘deep disappointment’ can only be America’s great good fortune.


2 posted on 06/25/2013 1:56:15 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: lbryce

WooHoo, the Texas voter id law, along with others that required Justice Dept approval, are now the law of the land!


3 posted on 06/25/2013 2:00:08 PM PDT by BradtotheBone (Moderate Democrat - A politician whose voting record leans left and whose vote can be bought.)
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To: lbryce

Odumbo is disappointed? Then I’m happy.


4 posted on 06/25/2013 2:02:07 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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5 posted on 06/25/2013 2:16:46 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Some on our "Roads & Bridges" head to the beach. Others head to their offices, farms, libraries....)
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6 posted on 06/25/2013 2:17:20 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Some on our "Roads & Bridges" head to the beach. Others head to their offices, farms, libraries....)
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Yep, voting rights for thee but not me.


7 posted on 06/25/2013 2:32:16 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: lbryce; Impy; InterceptPoint; SunkenCiv; Clintonfatigued; Just A Nobody; smoothsailing; ...
President Obama, whose election as the nation’s first black president was cited by critics of the law as evidence that it was no longer needed, said he was “deeply disappointed” by the ruling. “Today’s decision invalidating one of its core provisions upsets decades of well-established practices that help make sure voting is fair, especially in places where voting discrimination has been historically prevalent,” he said.

It's more than ironic that Obama is bemoaning "invalidating...decades of weil-established practices that help make sure voting is fair" when he and his lackeys were the architects of unprecedented levels of election fraud and cheating which likely turned defeat into victory for him in last fall's election!

For whatever reason, Roberts didn't seem to be blackmailed or otherwise compromised in this case as he likely had been on his disastrous Obamacare ruling.

Notice also the talk about more states going to voter ID and cutting back on early voting; both are good ideas which help to curb fraud. No wonder why the 'rats are teed off!

8 posted on 06/25/2013 2:47:57 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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I see the early voting as a real problem....The ballots sit there...You can find out whether they are Dems or Repubs...and throw 100 Repub ballots out and hour. Do it in 10 districts.....100 districts......1000 districts...

Yes, you can rig an election.

9 posted on 06/25/2013 3:10:11 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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The only state that would still qualify would be Hawaii, since up until recently it restricted elections on the basis of race as well as who could serve in office, and still practices racial segregation as to government benefits and services.

See, e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_v._Cayetano


10 posted on 06/25/2013 3:44:12 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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Obama, whose election... said he was “deeply disappointed”

When 0bama fails, FREEDOM prevails!

11 posted on 06/25/2013 4:15:19 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Jesus, Please Save America!)
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To: justiceseeker93

Great comment in #8, js93.


12 posted on 06/25/2013 4:16:40 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: 4Liberty

My daughter could kick that skinny commie wimp’s ass all over the parking lot.


13 posted on 06/25/2013 4:18:05 PM PDT by sergeantdave (No, I don't have links for everything I post)
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To: justiceseeker93

I still think that the poison pills Roberts put in the Obamacare decision CAN-—not will, but can-—totally undo it as a “tax” that originated in the Senate. His demolition of the commerce clause was extremely important, maybe not as important as stopping Obamacare, but important nonetheless. So I for one am not convinced Roberts was blackmailed.


14 posted on 06/25/2013 4:48:00 PM PDT by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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To: Sacajaweau
The overlooked secret weapon of Ohaha/2012 was the "early voting" scam in key states....states he won handily which clinched the election.

When the Ohio Secy of State tried merely to regulate and standardize EV, the D'rats went ballistic--it would have demolished their "secret weapon."

Dems had detailed voter lists--they knew every voter in their precincts-- and had a plan to get every one to the polls.

Days of early voting and extended hours enabled the D'rat machine to herd the masses into busses and take load after load bodily to the polls. This is how they got 100% votes in black precincts.

They wouldn't have had the resources to get them all to the polls on one day......they had to have early voting---the long open season to deposit the necessary votes at the polls.

FIGURES The dopey GOP had no such organization, or apparently, even the faintest idea of what the DNC had been doing the last four years.

15 posted on 06/25/2013 5:44:19 PM PDT by Liz
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“I hope this energizes people who will be disenfranchised to make sure that they always get out to vote, even in non-Presidential years.”

Cute comment to the story by some feminist. My question to her is how exactly will these “disenfranchised” be able to vote? She seems to be saying that the liberal position is a TOTAL SHAM.


16 posted on 06/25/2013 6:05:55 PM PDT by BobL (To us it's a game, to them it's personal - therefore they win.)
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Now with Voter ID, the Dems will have to wait, AT LEAST, another decade to seize power in Texas. They just lost a huge number of ILLEGAL votes.


17 posted on 06/25/2013 6:09:45 PM PDT by BobL (To us it's a game, to them it's personal - therefore they win.)
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