{"id":11071,"date":"2013-09-08T01:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T08:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11071"},"modified":"2013-09-08T01:06:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T08:06:00","slug":"why-the-voting-rights-act-must-be-restored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/08\/why-the-voting-rights-act-must-be-restored\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Voting Rights Act Must be Restored"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lot of people are saying that, when the fascist five Injustices of SCROTUS (Republican judicial VD) gutted the Voting Rights Act, it is not a big deal, because both individuals and DOJ can sue under other sections of the act.  In Texas, there is a lawsuit that the Texas redistricting plan is racist.  All the population growth comes from the Latino community, but all the new House seats are comfortably Gerrymandered for white candidates.  DOJ has also stated an intent to sue, but here is why that still isn\u2019t good enough.<\/font><\/p>\n

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A federal court said Friday it will not delay Texas’ primary elections and ordered the state to use political maps drawn by the Legislature \u2013 but only temporarily, while the judges sort out a complex and possibly precedent-setting lawsuit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The three-judge panel in San Antonio gave both sides in the lawsuit over Texas’ voting maps reason to claim victory. The court will not draw its own map for the 2014 elections, as civil rights groups wanted, but it also did not throw out the lawsuit completely, as Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott requested.<\/p>\n

The court order, signed by all three judges, also allows the civil rights and minority groups to argue that all changes to Texas election law should be reviewed by federal authorities before they can be implemented. The Justice Department has sought to intervene in the case after a recent Supreme Court decision requiring Congress to make changes to the Voting Rights Act.<\/p>\n

The fundamental issue of the lawsuit, filed in 2011<\/strong>, is whether the Legislature illegally drew political maps that intentionally diminish the voting power of minorities in Texas. Abbott’s office has argued in court papers that Republicans who control the Legislature drew maps to boost the chances of their party \u2013 which is legal \u2013 and that if minorities who vote predominantly Democratic are hurt as a result, that does not constitute a civil rights violation\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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

Section 4, was the section that required preapproval of changes to voting in states, like Texas, with a history of racism.  Without the requirement of preapproval, the lawsuits under other sections can get tied up in the courts for racist Republican tactics to remain legal long enough to steal elections, and win another majority in the House with a minority of the popular vote.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A lot of people are saying that, when the fascist five Injustices of SCROTUS (Republican judicial VD) gutted the Voting Rights Act, it is not a big deal, because both individuals and DOJ can sue under other sections of the act.  In Texas, there is a lawsuit that the Texas redistricting plan is racist.  All […]<\/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-11071","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\/11071","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=11071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}