Sandra Day O'Connor recently was reconsidering whether her and her fellow conservative SJC Justices did the right thing in calling the 2000 election for George W. Bush. Now she wonders if maybe the Court should have refused to hear that case. Now she wonders.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/05/sandra-day-oconnor-shift-on-bush-v-gore.html
I wonder what she makes of today's SJC decision to roll back the Voting Rights Act. Maybe in 12 years after the years of harm another Republican on this court will wonder if they made the right choice. Jan Brewer applauds the decision. All that racism stuff is so long in the past!
""It's hampered us for a long time," Brewer told reporters Tuesday. "I think we were being punished by the Voting Rights Act for indiscretions, for bad things that took place decades ago and those don't take place any longer. We have grown and so it was the right thing to do so I'm pleased."
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/gov-brewer-on-scotus-ruling-bad-things-that
The vexing question is how exactly it punished states that don't discriminate. If you don't plan to pass voter restriction laws where exactly is the punishment? She thinks all the bad things happened decades ago yet, she herself passed some extremely racist and reactionary anti immigration laws-SB 1070, the famous 'papers please' law. It wasn't a voter restriction law but it was highly discriminatory of people who looked the wrong ethnicity.
In the last few years, many GOP states have tried to pass voter id laws with the intent of restricting voting. Most of these efforts lost, in no small part thanks to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which is now gutted.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2013/06/scotus-rolls-back-voting-rights.html
Meanwhile. GOP states are wasting no time in taking advantage of the SJC's regrettable decision. In Texas, it's full steam ahead with voter ids.
http://editors.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/06/bring_on_those_voter_ids.php?ref=fpblg
North Carolina has been licking its chops in anticipation of the SJC ruling.
"A voter ID bill in North Carolina will move ahead in the wake of the Supreme Court decision striking down part of the Voting Rights Act, according to the Associated Press."
It seems that this is the new normal. The GOP has no political, moral. or intellectual authority to lead the country so it is more and more taking advantage of ways to maintain minority dominance.
The three legs of the stool is the filibuster, the gerrymander, and voter id laws thanks to the shameful SJC ruling.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/05/sandra-day-oconnor-shift-on-bush-v-gore.html
I wonder what she makes of today's SJC decision to roll back the Voting Rights Act. Maybe in 12 years after the years of harm another Republican on this court will wonder if they made the right choice. Jan Brewer applauds the decision. All that racism stuff is so long in the past!
""It's hampered us for a long time," Brewer told reporters Tuesday. "I think we were being punished by the Voting Rights Act for indiscretions, for bad things that took place decades ago and those don't take place any longer. We have grown and so it was the right thing to do so I'm pleased."
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/gov-brewer-on-scotus-ruling-bad-things-that
The vexing question is how exactly it punished states that don't discriminate. If you don't plan to pass voter restriction laws where exactly is the punishment? She thinks all the bad things happened decades ago yet, she herself passed some extremely racist and reactionary anti immigration laws-SB 1070, the famous 'papers please' law. It wasn't a voter restriction law but it was highly discriminatory of people who looked the wrong ethnicity.
In the last few years, many GOP states have tried to pass voter id laws with the intent of restricting voting. Most of these efforts lost, in no small part thanks to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which is now gutted.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2013/06/scotus-rolls-back-voting-rights.html
Meanwhile. GOP states are wasting no time in taking advantage of the SJC's regrettable decision. In Texas, it's full steam ahead with voter ids.
http://editors.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/06/bring_on_those_voter_ids.php?ref=fpblg
North Carolina has been licking its chops in anticipation of the SJC ruling.
"A voter ID bill in North Carolina will move ahead in the wake of the Supreme Court decision striking down part of the Voting Rights Act, according to the Associated Press."
"From the AP:
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/north-carolina-republican-says-voter-id-bill-willA bill requiring voters to present one of several forms of state-issued photo ID starting in 2016 cleared the House two months ago, but it's been sitting since in the Senate Rules Committee to wait for a ruling by the justices in an Alabama case, according to Sen. Tom Apodaca, R-Henderson, the committee chairman. He said a bill will now be rolled out in the Senate next week.
It seems that this is the new normal. The GOP has no political, moral. or intellectual authority to lead the country so it is more and more taking advantage of ways to maintain minority dominance.
The three legs of the stool is the filibuster, the gerrymander, and voter id laws thanks to the shameful SJC ruling.
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