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Posted on 06/25/2013 9:15:16 PM PDT by Steelfish
After Supreme Court Ruling, Senate to Hold Hearings on Voting Rights Act
By Chris Good
Jun 25, 2013
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold hearings next month after the court on Tuesday invalidated the Voting Rights Act’s coverage formula, which determines which voting districts must gain pre-approval from the Department of Justice for voting policy and procedure changes.
The court left standing Section 5, which requires states with histories of racial discrimination to seek such approval, only invalidating the formula that determines which districts fall under that provision. Congress last reauthorized the law in 2006. Read more about the Supreme Court’s landmark decision on voting rights.
Now, it’s essentially up to Congress to re-write the formula. Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., announced the Voting Rights Act hearings to Democratic senators at their weekly caucus luncheon, held about two and a half hours after the Supreme Court handed down its decision, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told reporters.
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Don’t be so dramatic Harry.
You know what Harry? Your mama.
Let’s see what the Dims try to do.
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Stuff it Harry. You drama queen!
NO, Harry....these are DARK Days in America....because of your ilk....GFY
they'll figure out something. Seems to me it's tailor-made for their new just-add-water-citizenship plans.
[Reid: “Dark Day For Supreme Court”]
RACIST!!
Wow.. The SCOTUS ruling was YESTERDAY. Why doesn’t the Senate show any interest in getting accountability from team 0bama on the IRS/DOJ/Benghazi crimes? Perhaps the Dems are more concerned with how they’re going to STEAL the 2014 elections than they are the many conservative groups DISENFRANCHISED by the IRS or the families of the Benghazi victims?
The SCOTUS sat and watched the complete takeover of healthcare, mortgages, student loans, car companies, you name it, by an out of control Federal government and we are supposed to think this is super great?
Shut up.
Why don’t they hold hearings on all of the things 0 is circumventing Congress on...like this global warming/environmental E0 BS?
This is Kabuki theater to appease conservatives (making us feel that we won something) for the treason that is coming very soon through the USSC legalization of same-sex marriage (trumping states’ rights) and through the houses by giving amnesty to some 40 million criminals in this country.
This might be fun to watch.
It was the cowardly GOP House and Senate w GWB who reauthorized the VRA as is in 2006 for the standard reasons, but it bought them less than nothing in 2006 and 2008 elections.
It was originally upheld 1965 due to extra-ordinary civil rights violations long gone 41 years later 2006.
Now we get to watch those Senate Dems craft rationale for putting those Red states back in Federal chains, wo being able to get a bill to Obama.
And smoke out those GOP Senate traitors. Expect McCain and Grahamnesty to be the first two to sign on to whatever Reid comes up with.,
FUHR!
LOL!
There is proof positive that legitimate voters are having their ballot power diluted.
Why don’t we hold hearing on the SC decision on Obamacare?
Because the are part of it.
We aren’t going to bring up the six Alabama counties where voter registration is 100-to-106 percent of the adults in the county (over eighteen years old)....are we?
There are problems which ought to replace the problems of 1965, without any doubt. Dead voters voting....ought to deserve a hearing and some fixture. People voting in multiple counties or multiple states....ought to deserve a hearing and some fixture. Illegal citizens voting....ought to deserve a hearing and some fixture. Gerrymandering is out of control...ought to deserve a hearing and some fixture. The number of requirements to get on a state ballot is screwed up....it ought to deserve a hearing and some fixture.
Yet, we won’t talk on these.
Levin explained the Supreme Court’s ruling like only a genuine constitutional scholar can explain it. He added that NONE of the Democrat “mainstream” newsrooms have the slightest clue what the Supreme Court’s ruling actually means. This would certainly include ABC news.
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