Scalia calls oting Rights Act a racial entitlement!

[IndependentinWis]

Yes, making it possible for people to vote is a racial entitlement according to the hero of the right, Justice Scalia. I always thought voting was a "right" in this country. I guess Scalia is tired of having laws that make it harder for minorities to vote be overturned by lower courts as they violate the Voting Rights Act, so just get rid of it. And the idea that people not only in the 16 areas that are where they have to go to the Feds to get permission to change laws are trying to enact lasw to limit voting, it seems to be happening everywhere the GOP controls the state governments. Shame, Shame, Shame on Scalia and those who are responsible for trying to enact these laws to limit voting, the first right of every American.

 

[bdtex]

What Scalia and the other SCOTUSCons are gonna do is make the GOP even more of a regional party. Southern Strategy news coverage is gonna multiply. I can just imagine what white Texas GOPs are gonna do to dilute and disenfranchise the Hispanic vote.

 

[Arkady]

Yes, making it possible for people to vote is a racial entitlement according to the hero of the right, Justice Scalia. I always thought voting was a "right" in this country. I guess Scalia is tired of having laws that make it harder for minorities to vote be overturned by lower courts as they violate the Voting Rights Act, so just get rid of it. And the idea that people not only in the 16 areas that are where they have to go to the Feds to get permission to change laws are trying to enact lasw to limit voting, it seems to be happening everywhere the GOP controls the state governments. Shame, Shame, Shame on Scalia and those who are responsible for trying to enact these laws to limit voting, the first right of every American.

Scalia is a good example of how history can turn on the tiniest of things. Imagine if some little bit of plaque were to break off from the wall of one of his blood vessels, float up to his brain, and cause a fatal stroke. That almost microscopic accident would remove from the Supreme Court bench the worst human being to befoul it for many decades, thereby freeing up the spot for someone who would certainly be a vast improvement. That one tiny thing would result in a whole series of cases being decided very differently. Citizens United might very well go away, for starters. Legislatures would again have some freedom to pass sensible gun control the way the people want. That one lucky bit of mortality would work an enormous positive change for over three hundred million people.