Well…this looks like it is going to be a theme for at least the next couple of days while the term winds down…another bad, bad decision written by the righties on the court that strikes down key provisions of the Voting Rights Act that kept states like Mississippi, Alabama, and Texas from doing everything in their power to keep minorities and everyone else except whites from voting…and one of the reasons is that it has been a long time since 1965 and voter suppression can’t possible still be happening….well, it was more like they objected to a formula that is used to determine voter suppression but the effect is the same thing…that even though it is well documented that repub controlled states are doing their best to limit legal voting by shortening poll hours, requiring voter ID, and making sure that students in their states can’t vote there…the righties on the court dismissed these facts, handing the repubs a blank check to continue to keep legal voters from voting and allowing them to rig elections….I guess since these folks didn’t see a problem with handing an election ole GW, of course they would have no problem allowing their side to lie, cheat, and steal elections…bad, bad, decision….geez…
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Scalia is an idiot…
Well…I am actually ahead by one for the month but I thought I’d come back here for one more to deal with a a couple of things that have come up over the past couple of days..the first one is the comments that justice Scalia made during arguments over the continuation of the voting rights act and whether or not discrimination still exists in voting rights in the southern states that are covered by parts of the act. This idiot stated that the only reason that the congress re-authorized the act overwhelmingly in 2006 was that the members were afraid to vote against a “racial entitlement”, not that there is still discrimination going on..something that is clear IS still happening; especially during the last election with all of the voter suppression that happened across the country. This is probably one of the most outrageous statements I’ve ever heard from a justice of the supreme court and I really do think it raises to the level of an impeachable offense…especially since he is attributing the votes for the act to being a sort of reverse blackmail that minorities are doing to the congress when the only reason the act was re approved is that when these states are left to their own devices, they immediately go back to discriminating against the poor and minorities by throwing up new barriers to their votes. Over the years, Scalia has shown that he is not the “huge brain” that the right holds him up to be, but just a venal, misogynistic, hack who has no problem using his lifelong appointment not to judge on the facts of a case, but to continually misinterpret the law to further his own political ends…the country would be better off if he would just resign and go to work for one of the corporations that he reveres and stop gutting the laws of the land. Geez…
Is Romney violating the law?
Well…I know I’ve been doing a bunch of these today but a new revelation on ole Mitt’s sketchiness surfaced on Twitter and I thought I’d write a short one about it. As you probably already know, there has been an epidemic of repub business owners telling their employees that they should vote for ole Mitt with dire consequences if they don’t, with one idiot in Florida telling his thousand employees that if Obama wins he is going to close the business and fire everyone. Ole Mitt was caught talking to donors and giving them the same advice, in direct violation of the 1965 voting rights act….so, he is either too stupid to understand that you can’t intimidate people to vote for you or he just doesn’t care…after all, laws don’t mean much to the repubs unless they can use them for their own benefit…geez…