The New Nullification Movement

http://www.thenation.com/article/176808/new-nullification-movement#

On June 25, the Supreme Court invalidated a key section of the Vo

ting Rights Act, ruling that states with the worst history of racial discrimination in voting no longer had to clear their voting changes with the federal government.

That decision has set off a new wave of disenfranchisement, primarily in the South, with eight states previously covered by the VRA passing or implementing new voting restrictions over the past four months.

A week before the Shelby County v. Holder ruling, the Supreme Court decided another voting rights case, Arizona v. The Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, which garnered few headlines but is also having major ramifications.

 In a 7–2 opinion written by Justice Antonin Scalia, who famously called the Voting Rights Act a “perpetuation of racial entitlement,” the Court found that Arizona’s proof-of-citizenship law for voter registration violated the 1993 National Voter Registration Act (NVRA).

 With a few important caveats—for example, that states have the power to set voter “qualifications” for elections—the ruling seemed like an unlikely voting rights victory from a Court known as markedly hostile to the cause.

 i'm tired of in your face law makers that in light of obvious evidence in favor of tell us there's a  “perpetuation of racial entitlement,” yeah the race that is exercising that racial entitlement to block voters and disenfranchise them of their right to contribute to what happens to them,

just like they are doing in their war on women and surprised that moves like NC made minutes after decision to get back in the saddle and round up those they donot want to vote and started back where they left off voter suppression.

The case stemmed from 2004, when Arizona voters approved Proposition 200, a stringent anti-immigration law that included provisions requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote and a government-issued photo ID to cast a ballot. Last year, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit blocked the proof-of-citizenship requirement, which it said violated the NVRA. Under the 1993 act,

which drastically expanded voter access by allowing registration at public facilities like the Department of Motor Vehicles, those using a federal form to register to vote must affirm, under penalty of perjury, that they are US citizens. More than 24 million people used that federal form to register in 2008.

Arizona’s law, the Ninth Circuit concluded, violated the NVRA by requiring additional documentation, such as a driver’s license, birth certificate, passport or tribal forms. According to a 2006 study by the Brennan Center for Justice, at least 7 percent of eligible voters “do not have ready access to citizenship documents.” The Supreme Court affirmed the lower court’s ruling, finding that states like Arizona could not reject applicants who registered using the NVRA form. 

the right wing has for years put in place their leverage against "we the people" allowing whatever they wanted to deny us to become law. the only way to counter this is first a super strong tun out on Nov.4th, we beat them twice but they have become more aware not smarter so we need to step up our get out the vote efforts and make some noise, if we don't next year is too late to say "ahhh crap".  note the states that are doing this are red states republicans the ones that are reaching out to us with our blood up to their elbows really not interested in getting shafted again, are you???