http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/voting_rights_act_bleak_future.php?ref=fpb
WASHINGTON — Several prominent election lawyers on a panel here Friday predicted that the Supreme Court would ultimately strike down a part of the Voting Rights Act that requires states with a history of racial discrimination to have their election laws precleared by federal authorities.Just one, Michael Carvin of Jones Day, thought that was a good thing.“Nobody could reasonably argue that the situation in the South or anywhere else today is remotely comparable to what it was in 1965, so it’s fundamentally irrational to put a tougher standard on people though 2032 than it was in 1965,” Carvin said during the panel discussion at George Washington University Law School. Carvin claimed that other parts of the Voting Rights Act would still protect voters from discrimination even if one part was struck down.
this is a prime reason why we needed to keep them out of the WH. imagine Romney appointing 2 or 3 more right wing justices it we not be justice, just us.
During the panel, Gilda Daniels of the University of Baltimore predicted that discriminatory election practices would have to be stopped in a “piecemeal” way if Section 5 was found unconstitutional. She predicted the process would take much longer and said the government would no longer be able to prevent discrimination before it took place. “It will often be too late,” she said.
Justin Levitt, a professor at Loyola Law School, said during the panel that a post-Section 5 world would be “deeply frightening.”
this too is a reason to deny them, they talk about returning everything to the states, look what that got us voter purging, union busting, no healthcare, war on women, deregulation, tax cuts for the rich. is there a justice that does not know that like their citizen's united debacle letting southern racist governors have their way there would never be a fair anything in those states not to mention the displacement of any funds received.
thank the Lord that Pres. will get to make those choices and take it to the bank, they will be in "we the people's" interest.
