The Law was extended another 25 years with this signature.
27 July 2006
Posted on 02/19/2012 2:30:12 PM PST by Libloather
Voting Rights Act under siege
By JOSH GERSTEIN | 2/19/12 7:06 AM EST
In a political system where even the most trivial issues trigger partisan rancor, the Voting Rights Act has stood for several decades as a rare point of bipartisan consensus.
Until now.
An intensifying conservative legal assault on the Voting Rights Act could precipitate what many civil rights advocates regard as the nuclear option: a court ruling striking down one of the core elements of the landmark 1965 law guaranteeing African Americans and other minorities access to the ballot box.
At the same time, the view that states should have free rein to change their election laws even in places with a history of Jim Crow seems to be gaining traction within the Republican Party.
“There certainly has been a major change,” said Rick Hasen, a professor of election law at the University of California at Irvine. “Now, you have a whole bunch of credible mainstream state attorneys general and governors taking this view. … That would have been unheard of even five years ago. You would have been accused of being a racist.”
Some of the shift appears to be driven by resentment of what tea party members and others perceive as an overgrown, out-of-control federal government, as well as by widespread concern among Republicans about claims of voter fraud at the polls. Part of the change could also stem from more vigorous enforcement of voting rights laws by President Barack Obama’s Justice Department.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Very true, and the 'Rats strategized to take advantage of those demographics.
Now that the GOP controls the Virginia legislature and the state executive, does it have any plans to counteract that strategy with appropriate legislation? Or does the state GOP presume that the college students will be much less enthusiastic about voting for Zero this time around?
Maybe a few hundred flyers should be posted at state universities stating the penalties of voter fraud.
“IF YOU ARE NOT A RESIDENT, THIS IS WHAT YOU’LL FACE!”
We would all have to contact the SOS of our states to see what state laws are.
I know the students’ registrations were challenged by some local registrars in VA back in ‘08. IIRC, state law requires voters to be, or intend to be, permanent residents. The then-Dem leadership in the state allowed a broader, more liberal interpretation of ‘permanent resident.’ Surprise! Surprise!
What the current Republican legislature/administration in Richmond is doing, I have no idea, but it’s safe to assume nothing. I contacted folks going back to late ‘08 and heard back nada. So I assume it’s not important to them.
You are ABSOLUTELY right!
Great post!
BINGO!
Well said!
Absolutely! Now tell me why our state attorneys general have not challenged the thing in court?
The Law was extended another 25 years with this signature.
27 July 2006
Of course. And since Texas has no authority to police the students in their home States, then therefore under Obama they are entitled to vote as many times as they can invent or counterfeit voting credentials in multiple States.
But Williams, the Fox news analyst and author of books on the civil rights movement, said some Republicans seem almost eager to go after the Voting Rights Act.
“When you have hard evidence of a past practice and you say you still don’t buy into it, then there does come a point where you say: ‘What is this really about? Repressing the minority vote?’” Williams said in an interview.
Williams said he thinks the current round of doubts about the law is also fueled by a perception that voter fraud is rampant, particularly in inner cities and areas with larger concentrations of minorities.
“There’s a racial element to this,” he said.
Same old same-old. Williams knows the score; he just wanted to sound more thoughtful and perceptive when he stood up and yelled, "Cracka cracka cracka!!!"
Guess what. You're all racists for ever, no matter what.
Well, thank you, sir!
Well, see my last .... national politics .... just lie in the mud there and take another beating ...
But you are right, the Texas and other AG's ought to be in court on this.
But if you look upthread in the Politico.com comments, you'll see that Nixon used the VRA to "impound" bad-acting, bloc-voting voters in sinkhole districts where they get rabble-rousing Representatives standing up and making fools of themselves 15 times a year:
Think Cynthia McKinney, Sheila Jackson Lee, Maxine Waters, Eleanor Holmes Norton, "Cold Cash" Jefferson.
They bring discredit on their communities and minimize their voters' influence on national policy. So if VRA was good enough for Tricky Dick, maybe I'd better think twice about getting it repealed. (Tho' you could still do the districting like that without VRA.)
Unfortunately for me, I'm not one of the voters "liberated" from the Baleful Influence, as I've told you before. I'm in Queen Sheila's barony.
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