Thursday, July 25, 2013

Supreme Court decision? What Supreme Court decision.

Eric Holder just announced he is going to try and reimpose "pre-clearance" on Texas. The New York Times just reported:

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced on Thursday that the Justice Department would ask a court to require Texas to get permission from the federal government before making voting changes in that state for the next decade. The move opens a new chapter in the political struggle over election rules after the Supreme Court struck down a portion of the Voting Rights Act last month. 

In prepared remarks for a speech before the National Urban League in Philadelphia, Mr. Holder also indicated that the court motion — expected to be filed later on Thursday — is most likely just an opening salvo in a new Obama administration strategy to try to reimpose “preclearance” requirements in parts of the country that have a history of discriminating against minority voters....

“This is the department’s first action to protect voting rights following the Shelby County decision, but it will not be our last,” Mr. Holder said. “Even as Congress considers updates to the Voting Rights Act in light of the court’s ruling, we plan, in the meantime, to fully utilize the law’s remaining sections to subject states to preclearance as necessary. My colleagues and I are determined to use every tool at our disposal to stand against such discrimination wherever it is found.”  Article

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

Don't mess with Texas.

Anonymous said...

It is still illegal under the VRA to create legal barriers, like Texas is doing, with the intent of making it difficult for our citizens to vote. My understanding of the effect of the Shelby County case is that the burden is now on the government to prove their allegations as opposed to the burden's being on the state to prove their intent is not to create barriers to voting.

No well intentioned person wants American citizens to be disenfranchised, right?

Anonymous said...

Meanwhile, Bennie Thompson was the only member of our Congressional delegation who voted to stop the NSA from spying on Mississippians.

The Libertarian said...

Texas should fight to the last man to keep their right to prevent Somalian nationals from being bussed to the polls in exchage for a free "Forward" t-shirt. In more local news, everyone who isnt in a corn syrup haze needs to call Gregg Harper and ask why he sided with the White House opinion toward our 4th amendment (or lack thereof)....RINO....fascist...state worshipper...totalitarian...red coat.Seriously? Bennie Commie Thompson was the only Ms rep that voted for the Amash-Conyers..really?

Anonymous said...

Ignoring that it's Eric Holder doing it for a second, I actually think this approach would be better than someone trying to rewrite Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act. Jurisdictions should be subject to pre-clearance when they are found by a court to be trying to violate the VRA -- if it's done fairly without regard to the race of the violators.

I've got no problem with a court imposing pre-clearance on Noxubee County, Texas, the City of Canton, or any other jurisdiction as a result of a court case finding voter intimidation or fraud.

Anonymous said...

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

Anonymous said...

Well 9:30 he is wrong. I am so sick and tired of you right wing black helicopter RepubliNAZI's that have ruined our party and made sure we lose forever.

We need to secure our country from people that hate us.

Barry W. Eed said...

Daily Caller Reports:

Public attitudes about race relations have plummeted since the historic election of white African-American President Barack Obama, according to a new poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal.

Only 52 percent of whites and 38 percent of blacks have a favorable opinion of race relations in the country, according to the poll, which has tracked race relations since 1994 and was conducted in mid-July by Hart Research Associations and Public Opinion Strategies.

That’s a sharp drop from the beginning of Obama’s first term, when 79 percent of whites and 63 percent of blacks held a favorable view of American race relations.

Negative views on race relations have also increased substantially. According to the poll, 45 percent of whites and 58 percent African-Americans now believe race relations are very or fairly bad, compared with 2009, when only 20 percent of whites and 30 percent of blacks held an unfavorable view.

Anonymous said...

Harper is a lost cause. He's got his nose buried so far up Boehner's ass in order to curry favor and a leadership job that he's completely blown off the voters of the 3rd. Harper will vote for amnesty too should it make it to the floor.

Anonymous said...

It was a bipartisan. vote.

Republican: Ayes - 94, Noes - 134
Democratic: Ayes - 111, Noes - 83

Go take a shower in the new fountain downtown LOSER @ 9:55.

Anonymous said...

Greg Harper needs a good challenger in the next election. He has been nothing but a bitter disappointment. Does he really think folks in our district want the NSA to continue to spy on us? And that we want an internet tax? How about his unwavering support of anything remotely related to Monsanto?

Anybody know someone that isn't interested in furthering the government's long reach into our daily lives? Or that can't be bought with crony capitalist money? I'd happily vote for that person.

The Libertarian said...

I'm not even sure what 9:55 is talking about. Black helicopter = me. RepubliNazi = Chaney style GOPers. Ruined "our" party, dunno if he means red or blue......but one thing is for sure, he/she/it cries out to the government for "safety" from alleged terrorists. Rabble rabble! TSA, DHS, protect us from terror! FDA, protect us from evil vitamin companies! DOJ, protect us from racism! Government government government, help, I'm scared!

Anonymous said...

"Supreme Court decision? What Supreme Court decision?"

The Court struck Section 4, automatic imposition of preclearance. Not Section 3, which Holder is proceeding under.

Anonymous said...

9:30 a.m.
Just as Benny was the ONLY member of the Mississippi delegation to vote against the NDAA.
9:55 He's not wrong and you are a cool aid drinking dumbfuck who'll wonder why we don't have any more rights, after they are all gone.
We're being sold out by our own RINOs and we won't forget. Time for the Republikan party to get thrown on the ash heap of history.

Anonymous said...

I'd like to know why Roger Wicker pulled his name off the letter supporting the defunding of Obamacare. Spineless lapdog.

Anonymous said...

Wicker voted for cloture on Rubio's folly immigration bill then voted against passage. No surprise when he trumpted to voters statewide in mailings that he had voted against the bill without mentioning that, in the true test, he voted for cloture.

Thad Cochran voted against both.

Anonymous said...

Thanks RINO Gregg Harper!

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