Posted on 06/28/2024 1:21:36 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Of all the modern Supreme Court’s incredibly disappointing rulings, gutting the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is near the top, second only to its catastrophic decision to rip away half a century of reproductive rights from American women.
Until the court’s shocking 2013 Shelby County vs. Holder decision, states and counties with histories of racial discrimination were required to get approval from the Justice Department — known as “preclearance” — for redistricting or changes to voting laws. The conservative members of the Supreme Court changed all that with a 5-4 decision.
“There is no denying,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote, “that the conditions that originally justified these measures no longer characterize voting in the covered jurisdictions.”
That’s because these measures were working, sir.
As the director of the Brennan Center for Justice’s Voting Rights Program, Sean Morales-Doyle, reminded me last week, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg acidly noted in her dissent that “throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.”
These days, thanks to our misguided court, it’s raining voter suppression laws.
The Brennan Center has found that at least 29 states have passed 94 restrictive voting laws, only a few of which have been blocked by courts or repealed. Freed from federal oversight, states such as Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Mississippi and South Carolina have gone to town, enacting dozens of new restrictions in a cynical effort to make it more difficult for Black, brown and Indigenous voters and college students, all of whom lean Democratic, to cast ballots.
A handy primer on the issue is the 30-minute documentary “Suppressed and Sabotaged,” by Brave New Films. Released in 2022 and re-released this year, the documentary...
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
False premise.
That’s a really long way of saying “black people are too stupid to get an I.D.”
Making it easier for legal votes to matter.
The reality.
The whole ‘voter suppression’ thing is just a lie to enable Democrats to cheat.
Long ago, some states used to practice various forms of racial discrimination that formerly discouraged some blacks from voting, which in the process kept some Leftists from getting elected.
Just because the discrimination no longer exists, that's no reason to take the Communist-inspired Federal boot-heel off the necks of conservative southern states. The Communist Left can't afford to lose its fairyland carve-out in the South.
If you want to prevent the Dems from finishing their task of destroying what's left of the black family in the South, you must be some kind of ray-ciss.
Doesn’t the constitution guarantee to the citizens of every state a republican form of government? Maybe Trump can sic the DOJ on states like California with laws that make election fraud easy and undetectable. Time to go on offense.
Here comr the excuses.
What a pile of steaming s^^t!
Yeah...Dems now registering strawmen to vote....
No bias with the Los Angeles Times.
Made me laugh because it’s so true!
No, they allowed a bunch of leftist to get elected.
You look at who was suppressing the black vote and it was democrats.
Then they discovered that with the use of "managers" they did not even need for them to vote, they could vote for them.
la Times
Perhaps they are concerned about 15 million or more illegals voting in the election.
No one is making it harder to vote.
Americans (not Fake_Americans) want to make it harder to CHEAT to vote.
Yep LA times ...stopped reading after seeing that. When I was a kid in 60s/70s LA times was a decent paper. They swung hard left in the 80s and are a shadow of their former glory.
The restrictive laws in their view are voter id and mail in ballots.
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