{"id":10515,"date":"2013-06-25T08:18:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T15:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10515"},"modified":"2013-06-25T08:18:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T15:18:09","slug":"scrotus-skewered-voting-rights-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/25\/scrotus-skewered-voting-rights-act\/","title":{"rendered":"SCROTUS Skewered Voting Rights Act"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fascist five activist Injustices of SCROTUS, over the objection of the four Justices of SCOTUS, ignored the Constitution and goose-stepped America back into the days of Jim Crow laws.  Shelby County v. Holder<\/em> is a worse decision than Citizens United<\/em>, because it will make it easier for red states to disenfranchise legal voters.  They pretended that this is a compromise, but it is not.<\/font><\/p>\n

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In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court has ruled Section 4 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act<\/a> unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

\u201cSection 4\u2019s formula is unconstitutional in light of current conditions,\u201d Chief Justice John Roberts wrote. \u201cCoverage today is based on decades-old data and eradicated practices.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Court did not issue a holding on Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Basically, what this means is that while the Justice Department still has the authority to approve voting-related statutes in areas with a history of racial discrimination, the map used to determine what those areas are is outdated. Congress can create a new map, Roberts wrote<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Washington Post<\/a>><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the catch.  Can you imagine the map that would come out of the Republican-dominated House?  I can!<\/font><\/p>\n

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The fascist five activist Injustices of SCROTUS, over the objection of the four Justices of SCOTUS, ignored the Constitution and goose-stepped America back into the days of Jim Crow laws.  Shelby County v. Holder is a worse decision than Citizens United, because it will make it easier for red states to disenfranchise legal voters.  They […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}