BULLSTALIN. Eric Holder dropped a case that had already been won by default regarding voter intimidation at a polling center.
Posted on 06/25/2013 6:24:04 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Rev. Jesse Jackson slammed the Supreme Court’s decision on the Voting Rights Act saying that civil rights activists have “bled too much” to be “stabbed in the heart” this way.
“The right to vote is too precious. We’ve bled too much, we’ve died too young, the price has been too great to now watch it be stabbed in the heart by the Supreme Court today,” the civil rights leader told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Tuesday.
Jackson urged President Obama to use his executive power to convene Congress and make a case to set the record straight on the court’s ruling and also called on the people to stand up.
“The president has taken a very strong position today because he knows that without the protected right he would not have been president in the first place. He must use his power to convene the Congress and make a case to the nation as Lyndon Johnson made a case to the nation…why we must stop any scheme that suppresses or limits voting access or the right to vote and to win,” Jackson said. “We must go back to the streets in great numbers and demand a broad-based public consensus bottom up.”
Jackson, who went to Selma, Ala., to march with Martin Luther King Jr. for voting rights in 1965, also called the court’s decision a “dangerous setback,” adding that the only reason minority groups turned out to vote the way they did in the last eight years was because of the government oversight protecting them.
That Tuesday the Supreme Court struck down a key part of the Voting Rights Act that had been in place for almost five decades and had recently been extended for 25 more years by Congress in 2006. They ruled that the requirement that some or all areas in 15 states with proven past racial discrimination had to receive approval from the Justice Department for any changes in voting laws, procedures or even polling place locations was unconstitutional.
Keep punishing select states. Right "Hymietown" Jackass?
But voter fraud in your favor is just fine, eh Chicago Jesse?
Yep, without vote fraud (over 100% turnout voting for Obama) he may not have returned to the White House.
Where are you bleeding, Jesse? Seems to me that you’ve done extremely well, playing the race game.
Shut up Jesse. Americans are tired of hearing it. Go visit Junior in jail.
BULLSTALIN. Eric Holder dropped a case that had already been won by default regarding voter intimidation at a polling center.
will Jesse Jackson be going on a Shake Down Tour ?
Remember during the Presidential election when the MSM and Government claimed that terms like ‘killing’, ‘stabbing’, were tantamount to ‘incitement to riot’ ?
Now, every day I read headlines like “Obama killing pipeline”, “Stabbed in the heart”, “we want Snowden DEAD”.
But it’s OK now, for some reason.
Dear Jesse,
Smearing blood on yourself is not bleeding.
Sincerely,
MLK
He wont be happy until there’s a race war.
Shut the hell up. America is getting sick and tired of you and your criminal son...
Your master is waiting for you...
Does he really think that now black people will be denied the right to vote? The Jim Crow laws are done with.
Does Jesse ever visit his bastard child that he stole money from his organization to pay hush money/child support(?) to the baby mama of?
I could care less what Jessie says. Well, that is not the truth. Let him keep talking to the point that his people think they can not legally vote. Obama’s people are stupid enough to believe that is the truth and will stay home in the next election.
Clown Reverend jackson is a complete subhuman loser. Does this idiot ever say anything resembling common sense? He must have been held under water a bit too long when he was baptized getting his “reverend” designation.
Then there was Slobbering John Lewis revisiting Selma for the 1,000,000,000,,,,,th time.
He is correct... the vote is too precious... that is exactly why we need voter identification... what a boob...
Jessie has bled a lot of institutions of their money.
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