When the case where the Wisconsin voter suppression law was upheld gets there, they’ll say “meh, so-so.”
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Yeah, I know it’s wrong.
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We can’t gloat. The NY Times this afternoon has a story on NC adding other restrictions to make it harder for African Americans to vote. And, MSNBC had a chilling story over the weekend that the NC Secy of State is purging the voter rolls of people who have not voted since 2014 or have voted in a state in addition to North Carolina. The list of those purged is secret. The State knows who voted twice by comparing names of voter rolls – so, for example, if Jose Hernandez voted in NC, and there’s another Jose Hernandez who voted in Georgia, it’s obviously the same person. Same with Anthony Jackson, Jun Lee, or (presumably) Alan Cohen. Even if the middle names are different, NC considers the two people to be the same.
Someone has got to stop this farce.
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So after the activist SC overturned the Voting Rights Act and the explicit will of Congress, they put a fig leaf on it to allow future findings of racial discrimination to reinstate invalidated portions of the law. Now that the lower court judge found exactly that, the conservative judges wanted to overturn? Sometimes it’s hard to see that bunch as anything but partisan scum not worthy of the robes they wear.
Oh, and Scalia? Thanks again!
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Great news, I think? That headline feels like a quadruple negative
Suck it, bigots
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GOP is better off with a 4-4 than a 4-5.
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In an article like this I’d like to know who voted how. Just one short paragraph, and I would appreciate it.
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It sounds horrible, but Scalia’s death truly was “the gift that keeps on giving”, wasn’t it?
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These people are irredeemably evil.
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4-4 split energizes the GOP more than the Dems. It is not great news! Good for this term but it should have 8-0 to stuff NC.
There is no doubt. there is no valid reason, there is no proof, there is nothing, never has been anything to suggest that voter fraud is rampant, or has ever decided an election .
Voter suppression is for one purpose, that is to suppress the will of the voter. Period.
To have 8 top notched, highly educated, well informed, and read individuals and only have 4 that disagree with the NC voting law is a National tragedy.
Ho-ray for our side? I do not think so.
Wake up!
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In about two weeks we’re going to hear the emergency request for an injunction ordering NC officials to obey the appeals-court ruling. Because they’ve been ignoring it so far.
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Joy Reid had a too short segment on voter roll purging either Saturday or Sunday, and I was horrified that it wasn’t treated as an issue of the greatest importance. Greg Palast, investigative reporter and a guy from the ACLU talked about it, then commercial, then onto next topic. One of them mentioned Kobach of KS was heavily involved. Why is no one else’s hair on fire.
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Read the actual decision at the bottom of the article. The court listed everyone who wanted to allow this abomination to continue.
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Is it just me or do others have difficulty reading headlines with so many words like denies, halt, and blocking all in one sentence? I get so that I have to do a double-take to get what’s actually being said. Not sure why…
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OMG, I missed your comment and basically wrote something similar. I have a big problem with so many negatives like this in the headline, and its not the first time. I thought maybe it was something with the way I read things. I have to figure out which verb applies to what and then sometimes I’m still confused. I thought it was just me.
Btw, are you left-handed by any chance too? We lefties have a way of being able to visualize what’s being said often times too.
That headline was really confusing. I had to translate it to SO the lawyer.
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Who would have thought someone dying would be a positive thing for the country. I actually hate saying that
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What would you like to do? I am certain we could find one of Saddam’s radio controlled nuke carrying model airplanes and fly it to NC.
Seriously, what?
Slight correction: it wasn’t the secretary of state, who is an elected democrat, but the chair of the state board of elections, who is a republican appointed by the governor.