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re: Barack Obama is tweeting about Voting Rights!
Posted on 8/6/20 at 1:33 pm to Steadmans Cheddar
Posted on 8/6/20 at 1:33 pm to Steadmans Cheddar
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Well, the number of polling locations has dropped significantly since the SCOTUS ruling removed the pre-clearance requirement, and they are predominately in areas which disproportionately affect minorities.
And you believe the reason they were shut down was because they had minorities? Not for any other reason than "muh racist"?
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Posted on 8/6/20 at 1:35 pm to Seldom Seen
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legislatures unleashed a flood of laws designed specifically to make voting harder, especially in communities of color.
I'd like to know which laws discourage people of color from voting. This is empty conjecture.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 1:39 pm to Seldom Seen
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the filibuster—a Jim Crow relic
A quick Wikipedia search tells me that isn't accurate.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 1:42 pm to Steadmans Cheddar
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Steadmans Cheddar
Still waiting on a response other than "racism". Here's some light reading for you, because you clearly don't know what that SC case was about.
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The Court held that Section 4(b) exceeded Congress's power to enforce the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, reasoning that the coverage formula conflicts with the constitutional principles of federalism and "equal sovereignty of the states" because the disparate treatment of the states is "based on 40 year-old facts having no logical relationship to the present day" and thus is not responsive to current needs.[2][3] The Court expressed that Congress cannot subject a state to preclearance based simply on past discrimination. It noted that since the coverage formula was last modified in 1975, the country "has changed, and while any racial discrimination in voting is too much, Congress must ensure that the legislation it passes to remedy that problem speaks to current conditions".[2][31][32] The Court declared that the Fifteenth Amendment "commands that the right to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race or color, and it gives Congress the power to enforce that command. The Amendment is not designed to punish for the past; its purpose is to ensure a better future."[33]
Roberts wrote that the Act was immensely successful "at redressing racial discrimination and integrating the voting process” and noted that the U.S. has made great progress thanks to the Act.[28] But he added: “If Congress had started from scratch in 2006, it plainly could not have enacted the present coverage formula.”[28] According to the Court, "Regardless of how to look at the record no one can fairly say that it shows anything approaching the 'pervasive,' 'flagrant,' 'widespread,' and 'rampant' discrimination that faced Congress in 1965, and that clearly distinguished the covered jurisdictions from the rest of the nation."[33][34]
Meaning, this isn't 1965, racism isn't as nearly as pervasive as it was 50 years ago, which is fact, further exemplified by the sitting President at the time of this ruling.
and the dissent
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote a dissenting opinion that was joined by Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan. The dissent would have held that Congress had sufficient evidence before it to determine that the coverage formula remained responsive to current needs. The dissent acknowledged that discrimination in voting has decreased in the covered jurisdictions since the Voting Rights Act's enactment, but it attributed much of that decrease to the Act itself, noting that "[t]hrowing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet."
So basically, big government Ginsburg is stating that government alone ended the racism, and the absence of government = racism.
This post was edited on 8/6/20 at 1:43 pm
Posted on 8/6/20 at 1:44 pm to Seldom Seen
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some state legislatures unleashed a flood of laws designed specifically to make voting harder, especially in communities of color.
Why is so hard for people of color to vote?
Posted on 8/6/20 at 1:48 pm to Seldom Seen
That terrorist pos needs to take his big eared arse to a Muslim country where he belongs
Posted on 8/6/20 at 1:52 pm to Seldom Seen
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Let’s also make sure to add more polling places
This is probably the only statement in that drivel I could support. No one should have to wait hours to vote.
But then I think that’s up to local officials right? not the state or national level. So national laws arent gonna solve that local problem.
This post was edited on 8/6/20 at 1:53 pm
Posted on 8/6/20 at 1:58 pm to Seldom Seen
He wants to end gerrymandering? I’m sure a lot of black officials don’t support that.
As for the filibuster, it’s been around since the early 1800s. It’s not something invented for Jim Crow.
As for the filibuster, it’s been around since the early 1800s. It’s not something invented for Jim Crow.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 2:04 pm to Aubie Spr96
This is how we end up with people like SheJack in Congress. Her district is shaped like a damn lobster claw
Posted on 8/6/20 at 2:10 pm to SelaTiger
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I agree with national holiday for election day.
April 16th sounds like a good date for this holiday.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 2:11 pm to Seldom Seen
Who doesn’t have the right to vote 
Posted on 8/6/20 at 2:14 pm to Seldom Seen
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And if all this takes eliminating the filibuster—a Jim Crow relic––then that’s what we should do.
Just because it was used in an attempt to prevent passage of the Civil Rights Act, that doesn't make the filibuster a racist bludgeon, you lying fop.
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