Posted on 06/25/2013 2:23:22 PM PDT by BradtotheBone
The Supreme Court's decision to strike a key part of the Voting Rights Act threatens to damage Democrats’ chances at the polls — and potentially cost them House seats, beginning in Texas.
The court ruled Tuesday that the way states were chosen for special federal scrutiny was unconstitutional.
Barring congressional action, that means a number of states — most of them southern and GOP-controlled — no longer have to meet higher criteria to pass voting laws.
The ruling holds big implications for congressional redistricting and voter identification laws that Democrats claim are aimed suppressing minority turnout.
"This makes it much easier for Republicans to draw districts in away that minimizes the opportunities for Democrats in the south, minimizes opportunities for minorities in the South," said former Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Martin Frost (D-Texas).
"They pretty much will have free rein to pack as many blacks into as few districts as possible. It's a blow for expanded minority representation in the south as well as for Democrats, and it clearly is a problem looking at voter I.D. laws."
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It will be interesting to see what this amounts to in real terms.
One of the arguments the SCOTUS used were that by concentrating minorities into a few districts to guarantee them seats, it also guaranteed that outside of those districts, white voters would also have guaranteed seats, and this would encourage both “hard left” minority seats and “hard right” majority seats.
However it also means something else. When a winning candidate has to be a minority, quality goes out the window.
A well funded kook like Cynthia McKinney will consistently win in such minority districts, because there is no reasonable minority challenger who can get the funding to challenge her.
As such, minority voters are denied sane, honest representation. Instead, without minority gerrymandered districts, if they have to choose between candidates, they actually get a choice, and race is only one factor. And since blacks are a minority, they know that white candidates won’t be completely malevolent, since they have lived with white representatives before.
So things like McKinney being stark raving mad might actually mean more than that she is black.
Well, zip-a-dee-doo-dah. Finally some good news.
Woohoo! Just when we could use some good news, too!
That decision will make all the difference if held up. Texas
has already put the rule into law. We don’t waste time here. :)
If the Commies manage to get the amnesty bill through the House, I think several of the red states will literally bolt the union. Only the worst kind of fool would continue playing at a table where the deck is so criminally stacked against them.
What sense would it make to remain in a political union where you're nothing but a designated host, upon which a government sponsored horde will ravenously feed upon you and your people at the point of a gun?
It won’t matter tx poltics are controlled by cheap labor lobby...only palin could blow them out.
Thanks for the El Pingo.
Let’s make it so.
Never. Her constituents are as smart as she is!
No chance. She'll win 93-7 now, instead of 97-3.
DPS will be prepared to issue Electoral IDs starting tomorrow.
All you need is proof of:
a.) Texas residence
b.) U.S. citizenship.
It may be a while...
Wish she’d give it a shot. :)
Absolutely.
You gotta love Greg Abbott, our incredible state AG. The ink wasn't even dry on the Supreme Court decision when he made his announcement that henceforth, identification will be required to vote in all Texas elections.
Nice to win one for a change.
The end of the 2nd reconstruction: fifteen states no longer under the thumb of the Federal government, free to govern themselves.
Love his style.
Thanks for the ping!
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