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SCotUS: Court refuses to expand minority voting rights (5-4 vote, major wrench in dem machine?)
AP on Yahoo ^ | 3/9/09 | AP

Posted on 03/09/2009 11:57:51 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a part of the Voting Rights Act aimed at helping minorities elect their preferred candidates only applies in electoral districts where minorities make up more than half the population.

The decision could make it harder for some minority candidates to win election and for southern Democrats, in particular, to draw friendly electoral boundaries after the 2010 Census.

The 5-4 decision, with the court's conservatives in the majority, came in the case of a North Carolina plan that sought to preserve the influence of African-American voters even though they made up just 39 percent of the population in a state legislative district.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: expand; minority; refuses; scotus; votingrights
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To: Numbers Guy

Though I understand your point, what this really does is create entrenched incumbents and keeps blacks on the reservation. It is immoral and unconstitutional.

It destroys freedom.


41 posted on 03/09/2009 3:40:59 PM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: papasmurf

Anyone person, group, or agency watching me is in serious need of a real life. The only thing more boring than my life, would be watching my life.


42 posted on 03/09/2009 3:55:22 PM PDT by nufsed
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To: nufsed

They don’t need to physically watch you to watch you. It’s all automated. :)


43 posted on 03/09/2009 4:03:54 PM PDT by papasmurf (Trow da' bum out!)
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To: indianyogi
Time for whites to buy homes out in ethnic communities -— the result, best candidate wins!

If the markets keep cratering, this will be the only place young whites will be able to buy homes.

44 posted on 03/09/2009 4:09:10 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Norm, this is a mere delay.

My prediction (I hope I am wrong but don’t think I am): Hussein will, before the end of his term, achieve his goal of a generational shift in the SCOTUS by having his sycophant Congress increase the number of justices in that body. He might have them move it to 11 or 12 or 13...then HE will appoint extremely young brainwashed students of Saul Alinsky (much like himself) and Liberty will die.

Hussein will achieve what FDR could not.


45 posted on 03/09/2009 4:34:02 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: puffer

To #3: You got it wrong. White men can’t jump. I heard it in a movie so it must be true. Right?


46 posted on 03/09/2009 5:00:37 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Zeppelin

Beat me to it!


47 posted on 03/09/2009 5:57:51 PM PDT by LayoutGuru2 (Know the difference between honoring diversity and honoring perversity? No? You must be a liberal!)
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To: 100%FEDUP; 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; ~Vor~; a4drvr; Adder; Aegedius; Afronaut; alethia; ...
The 5-4 decision, with the court's conservatives in the majority, came in the case of a North Carolina plan that sought to preserve the influence of African-American voters even though they made up just 39 percent of the population in a state legislative district.

NC *Ping*

Please FRmail MitchellC if you want to be added to or removed from this North Carolina ping list.
48 posted on 03/09/2009 6:42:22 PM PDT by MitchellC ("I can no more renounce Rush, than I can my own grandmother...")
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To: NormsRevenge

This part of the Voting Rights act was blatantly unconstitutional. I’m glad I voted for Bush twice.


49 posted on 03/09/2009 9:54:00 PM PDT by TheThinker (Shame and guilt mongering is the Left's favorite tool of control.)
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To: pabianice
SCotUS: Court refuses to infringe on white voting rights (5-4 vote, major wrench in dem machine?)

I like this title too. It's more truthful but what does the media know about truth?

50 posted on 03/09/2009 10:05:15 PM PDT by TheThinker (Shame and guilt mongering is the Left's favorite tool of control.)
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To: 1010RD
Though I understand your point, what this really does is create entrenched incumbents and keeps blacks on the reservation. It is immoral and unconstitutional.

I agree with you. I have just always found it interesting that the effects of the policy are the reverse of what one might expect at first glance.

51 posted on 03/10/2009 5:43:57 AM PDT by Numbers Guy
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To: Numbers Guy

Hopefully this will help end the ridiculous gerrymandering that occurs here in NC. I can think of one district that is no wider than the interstate, for large stretches. It was cobbled together for the express purpose of getting a person of the correct color elected....no more, no less.


52 posted on 03/10/2009 6:00:49 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Numbers Guy
The liberal’s worst nightmare - the Law of Unintended consequences.

They'd argue against gravity if it would cause depravity.

53 posted on 03/10/2009 11:01:23 AM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: NormsRevenge

With Souter, Breyer, Ginsburg and Stevens once again voting to ignore the clearly-stated wording and intent of the law.

Surprise, surprise...


54 posted on 03/10/2009 1:54:34 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: NormsRevenge

So they can help minorities, but only when they’re not in the ... minority?

?


55 posted on 03/10/2009 2:37:37 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Obamanomics=Obamageddon)
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