Well…have been looking for a topic since I finished up with all the work I had to do today and I found one….with the seating of Justice Ketanji Jackson on the supreme court…people have been focusing on the fact that she is the first African American woman on the supreme court, but after her first day on the court and with how she handled herself and illuminated how damn good she is, all I can say is I’m damn impressed and I know she is going to be a good one. During arguments where Alabama is trying to gut the voting rights act, blathering that any redistricting in Alabama must be race neutral, she patiently explained the history of the 14th amendment and that it specific purpose was to protect the rights of freed slaves…and she asked how that could be “race neutral?” And she went on to explain that taking race into account in redistricting is perfectly constitutional….how much this going to matter with the right wingers salivating to allow the repubs to gerrymander to their hearts content and them not needing any reason in the constitution or law to make that happen, it is still heartening to see someone explode the idea that the “fix” is in and her opinion doesn’t matter…I can’t wait to read some of her dissents…I think she is going to end up a legal giant who will rule to the law and not to political goals…and she will show just how much the right wingers on the court are just hacks with no business at all of being there…can’t wait….
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Breathtaking hypocrisy…
Well….I just about puked when I read a statement put out by the repubs today to commemorate the passing of the voting rights act in 1965…and to praise the people who worked hard to get it passed…and the rest of the boilerplate where they try to take credit for passing it and that it was necessary to make sure all the people had the right to vote…okay, insert a big frickin laugh right here….in every state that the repubs control, they have been doing their best for the past twenty years to undermine it an make sure that minorities, the poor, and anyone else that will never vote for a repub can’t vote…in the past week alone, there have been 5 court cases striking down these voter suppression laws and now ole Reince has the gall to praise the VRA? This is just the latest in a long, long string of breathtaking hypocrisy out of the repubs…and I’m sure it won’t be the last…I’m just shaking my head…geez…
Finally, some wins on voting rights…
Well…with the repubs across this country doing everything they can to make sure dems can’t vote by many different types of voter suppression laws they have passed since the supreme court gutted the Voting Rights Act…saying that racism doesn’t exist anymore (yeah right)….it looked like they were going to be able to rig the election this fall. But, over the past few days, the courts have started to understand that these laws intent is not to prevent “voter fraud” but to make sure the poor, minorities, and anyone else that traditionally votes for dems can’t vote. The most egregious of these was North Carolina…big surprise…who called a special session the day after the supreme court ruled to blatantly use statistics on how blacks vote to make sure the new law would make it harder for them to vote….and the court slapped them down by saying that the new restrictions violated the constitution and immediately stopped them. The same thing happened in both Wisconsin and Texas this week so maybe the tide is turning and the rigging of the system by repubs will stop…and if they can’t cheat, they can’t win…geez…
The VRA and JEB!
Well…as you probably already know, the repubs on the supreme court gutted the Voting Rights Act by allowing states to make changes to their voting laws without any supervision by the federal government since “racism in voting is over”…and yesterday, ole JEB! agreed saying he wouldn’t approve the reinstatement of all of the parts of the VRA since “the problems were 60 years ago and are not happening now”. Well…whether JEB! is lying or he is so ignorant of what is going on in this country he should be disqualified from even running for president. As soon as the VRA was gutted, every repub controlled state started to put plans into action to disenfranchise the poor and minorities since they know that the time is coming that they can’t win any elections other than by cheating. No one likes their ideas other than the rich and racists so they institute voter ID, limit when people can vote, and the newest one, where the repubs move the polling places around up until the elections so no one in a majority minority precinct even knows where to vote…all to suppress the voters that will never vote for them. I hate to tell you this JEB! but your party is still doing the same old crap they did 60 years ago and the VRA was needed then since your party has no morals, and it is needed now since they still have no morals…open your frickin eyes, you idiot…geez…
Here’s an idea…
Well…with the ugly comments that were made by ole Scalia in the supreme court last week, and the general consensus that the Voting Rights act is going to be struck down by the conservative assholes on the court…an idea just popped into my head…as I sit here and think about it, it is seeming less and less like a good idea…oh, the idea is to extend the VRA to cover the entire country, not just the states that have been caught cheating to keep people from voting. I wonder where the court gets their news? In my news, the shenanigans of vote suppression and rigging is still in full force across the country so why not make it a federal crime to do this crap? Maybe if that was done, the repubs would stop spending all of their time trying to rig the vote and maybe, just maybe, they would start thinking about getting some jobs legislation going…nope, they’d just move on to more abortion legislation…what a bunch of crap…geez…