Wut?
Posted on 03/01/2013 5:09:05 PM PST by BradtotheBone
Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee said she was offended by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dismissal of the 1965 Voting Rights Act as a racial “entitlement.”
“Whenever a society adopts racial entitlements, it is very difficult to get out of them through the normal political processes,” Scalia said during Supreme Court debate in the Shelby County (Alabama) voting rights case earlier this week.
Jackson Lee, who visited the courtroom during the case, said the provision of the Act under question was not a racial entitlement.
“It simply says that you will have the right to vote that has been given to all citizens,” the Houston Democrat said on MSNBC’s Ed Show. “Why a justice would classify the simple protected right to vote as ‘racial entitlements’ baffles me and offends me.”
Scalia, one of the court’s most conservative voices, said that political pressure will prevent lawmakers from voting against the measure. The Act was last renewed by a 98 to 0 vote in the Senate and a 390 vote majority in the 435-member House.
Jackson Lee spoke of the voting rights problems in the Lone Star State on the interview. She said the GOP-authored state voter photo identification law was discriminatory. Jackson Lee noted that you could not use a student ID or a Texas state-issued ID, but could use a concealed firearm permit as identification. Jackson Lee said the section of the Voting Rights Act which Scalia disputed helped strike down this law.
“Next year they could make another law to block voting, and section five stands there as a codification of the Constitution to block those kinds of laws,” Jackson Lee said.
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Sheila Jackson Lee is a perfect example of why universal suffrage is a really bad idea.
The biggest mistake Texas ever made was letting this ignorant carpet-bagging New Yorker and her affirmative-action-hire-husband into the state. The University of Houston should be sued for bringing that scourge to the Lone Star State.
Constitutional Change - Only citizens who pay taxes may vote!!
Well, lessee. If Maxine Waters says we’re gonna lose 170 million jobs to the sequester, Sheila must think we’re gonna lose at least 200 million voters to those awful Republican ID laws.
Constitutional Change - Only citizens who pay taxes may vote!!
Just wanted to get that in print, so the LSM can say do a quick google search, see it and them quote it without reference and claim, i saw it on the internet, it must be true. right?
Sheila Jackson Lee is not human. She has the “mind” of a slug, if that.
You can’t get into an Oprah show without a government issued ID so what is her problem when one is required for voting?!
Whatever that dumbass has to say can wait.
I'll go further and add that I agree 100% with Tom Tancredo's advocacy of a civics literacy test as a sine qua non for voting. At the 2012 Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Mr. Tancredo stated this undeniable truth:
Because we don't have a civics literacy test to vote, people who couldn't even spell vote, or say it in English, put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House named Barack Hussein Obama.
Wut?
She once asked whether the Mars Pathfinder had taken a picture of the flag that Neil Armstrong had planted on the moon in 1969. She is one of the most profoundly stupid people ever to serve in Congress.
She, Manchelle and Barry could be intellectual triplets.
Why do we need a law to enforce a law?
Black women speaks with forked tongue—although I don’t think she is smart enough to know—as Eric Holder does—that Section 5 is the reason for the racially gerrymandering that gives the likes of her a safe seat in Congress. Without it, Texas could divide it up into neighboring districts to include a majority of whites, or least give a moderate black candidate a chance to won.
Black women speaks with forked tongue—although I don’t think she is smart enough to know—as Eric Holder does—that Section 5 is the reason for the racially gerrymandering that gives the likes of her a safe seat in Congress. Without it, Texas could divide it up into neighboring districts to include a majority of whites, or least give a moderate black candidate a chance to won.
Barbara Jordan must revolve in his grave every time this woman opens he trap.
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