The Supreme Court on Tuesday freed states from special federal oversight under the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965, saying the data Congress used to identify the states covered by it was outdated and unfair.
The vote was 5 to 4, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and the other conservative members of the court in the majority.The court did not strike down a provision allowing special federal oversight but said Congress must come up with a new formula based on current data to identify which states should be covered. Proponents of the law, which protects minority voting rights, have said it will be extremely difficult for a Congress bitterly divided along partisan lines to come up with such an agreement.
are we now experiencing the right wing side of the court voting in favor of right wing endeavors to restrain progressive voters?
how do you free states from scrutiny that have been in the media for the last year suppressing the vote, gerrymandering, purging votes, changing days and times to vote, lying to voters about where to vote and when.
this is another of their send it to the states so they can screw us more personally, a no vote is just that a no vote.
The act currently covers the southern states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia, as well as Alaska and Arizona, and parts of seven other states. It requires them to receive “pre-clearance” from either the attorney general or federal judges before making any changes to election or voting laws.Roberts said that the court had warned Congress four years ago, in a separate case, that basing the coverage formula on “40-year-old facts” led to serious constitutional questions.
they warned congress, guess the right wing is not afraid of them either. if the cat keeps going after the canary you don't give him more opportunities to do, why didn't they just set the standard and do their jobs? ok about old facts but that is what the republicans have been doing throughout, they will keep wasting time into the 2014 election allowing the right wing to continue it's skulduggery. there has to be a end to lifetime appts. they just foster complacency and little else.
when you know you're bullet proof the gun doesn't scare you.
