http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/john-lewis-voting-rights-act-supreme-court-ruling-93339.html?hp=r6
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) expressed personal disappointment at the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, calling the ruling a “dagger.”“What the Supreme Court did was to put a dagger in the heart of the Voting Rights Act of 1965,” Lewis told ABC News on Tuesday. “This act helped liberate not just a people but a nation.”
Lewis, who made rounds across TV networks Tuesday, was a leader in the civil rights movement. He is also the last living member of the “Big Six,” a group of prominent civil rights organization leaders that includes Martin Luther King Jr.“We don’t want to go back. I’m shocked, dismayed, disappointed. I take it very personally,” Lewis said. “I gave a little blood on that bridge for the right to vote, for the right to participate in a Democratic process.”“The Voting Rights Act has been very successful during the last 48 years,” Lewis continued, “but there are still problems all across the country where the Voting Rights Act needs to be strictly enforced.”
this is T-Party speak for taking our/their country back, back to where they had no problem with the Black, Brown and Red and Yellow man they had things their way they did whatever atrocity they wanted with impunity.
never planning on societal changes they went on as usual, now threatened from multiple directions they have to go back to when they were large and in charge, and "we the people" are letting them assert themselves back in our lives in that same position without a fight, we won election twicw with a Black guy that alone ought to be all thw encouragement needed to fight back and prevent this scourge on American lifestyle.
Although Chief Justice John Roberts’s opinion called on Congress to pass legislation updating the law to reflect current conditions, Lewis said he thinks there is little likelihood of congressional action.
i agree and you better believe they are in their little back rooms high fiving and congratulating each other on the second egregious vote for them by their stacked scotus
“I think what happened today with the Supreme Court will motivate hundreds and thousands of people, African American, Latino, white, Asian American, Native American, men, women, students, to come out,” Lewis said on MSNBC. “The vote is precious. It is sacred.”
