John Fund, top player in the voter suppression and vote fraud bamboozlement racket, takes to National Review to announce that the court decision is “actually a victory for civil rights.”
The first African American attorney general will speak shortly about today’s Voting Rights Act decision. Watch.
I hinted at this in my post from earlier today: the VRA decision is the perfect complement to the GOP’s increasingly clear strategy of ignoring the 2012 election and doubling down on maximizing the white vote. But Josh Green really captures it when he calls the decision a ‘poison chalice‘ for the GOP, encouraging and giving more tools to the GOP in its quest to max out white voting and make the Democratic party the home of the overwhelming number of non-white voters and the white voters who feel at home in a truly multiracial party.
To paraphrase Bill Clinton’s famous words from 1996, the Court has built the GOP a mobility scooter to ride into the 22nd century.
As we move into the post-VRA era, I’m wondering just what new laws the ‘redeemed’ jurisdictions are now going to come up with to deal with minority voters? I figure this might be a good job for a crowd-sourcing effort. What laws are we likely to see? One day voting between 9 am and 1 pm? Minority voter districts must be under sea level? Ideas?
There’s surprisingly little discussion today of the fact that a jurisdiction can get out of under the pre-clearance standard by simply demonstrating over a ten year period that they’re no longer abusing/discriminating against minority voters in the jurisdiction. And a substantial number of jurisdictions have been able to do that, especially with revisions to the law passed in the early 1980s. Here’s a piece on how New England got entirely out of under the VRA pre-clearances process (yes, there were covered areas) basically by not being racist.
South Carolina Attorney General thanks Supreme Court for overturning “an extraordinary intrusion into state sovereignty.”
Texas AG says now that the Court has redeemed his state from the Voting Rights Act, bring on the voter IDs!
Buy in now because we’re seeing the start of a bull market for voter ID laws. After Texas said Voter ID or bust this afternoon, now North Carolina is ready to push through it’s voter ID law too.
President Obama won over no one at Fox with today’s climate change speech.