7-5-21 SUPREME COURT UPHOLD’S STATE’S RIGHTS
The 1965 Voting Rights
Act was the seminal piece of legislation in American
history outlawing racial discrimination in voting by providing federal
oversight in states with long histories of discrimination. The Voting Rights
Act led to the 15th Amendment of the US Constitution allowing nonwhites to
finally participate in a representative
democracy. The law was reauthorized by Congress in 2007.But the legal
underpinnings are now under threat by the conservative members of the Court.
The SC is bowing to the wishes of Republican lawmakers who are passing
draconian restrictions on voting. These are excessively cruel and vindictive
targeting people of color and minorities.
> The Trump virus has affected and corrupted the
Republican Party and the SC. Jesus is just a fading memory. The new messiah is
DJT!
> No pity for the tired and weary minorities who take
time off from work to vote. No Saturday voting. Good Samaritans who carry water
and food to help voters can be prosecuted. Jesus must be weeping! As one
federal judge put it several years ago, such new restrictive laws are akin to
using “a sledgehammer to hit either a real or imaginary fly on a glass coffee
table.”
> The SC also struct down California Donor Law in a
major win for Dark Money Groups. The names of large donors promoting their
political and economic interests will remain hidden from the general public.
> Election law experts predict the ruling could lead
to challenges of campaign finance disclosure laws and a surge in dark money
spending on elections.
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