(USA) Right-Wing Media Flip-Flop And Begin Attack On Entire Voting Rights Act

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After the conservative justices gutted the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder, right-wing media complained that criticisms of the legal challenge were overblown because other provisions of the VRA remain intact to fight voter suppression. But now some of those same right-wing media figures have begun to flip-flop on that position, arguing that another crucial component of the VRA is unconstitutional as well.

http://mediamatters.org/research/2014...

[Malcolm]

The entire right (nutjob) wing of yer current SCOTUS is all for original intent, unless, of course, it's the original intent behind the Voting Rights Act.

[Malcolm]

May I suggest that a very good overview of the illegal voter suppression committed by the likes of Karl effing Rove, is Greg Palast's Billionaires and Ballot Bandits. Essentially, it takes a state's Secretary or State to bring charges against Karl Rove, but he rather conveniently only targets Red States, and when a Secretary of State doesn't wanna play ball, for instance by, say, bringing charges against Mr. Rove, the National Party/Machine just happens to fire said Secretary of State. It's insane.

[Jimmy]

I do a mini protest in my state of NH. I refuse to show an ID. Then I have to fill out an affidavit which will be sent to the secretary of state. I still get to vote. I get a postcard to fill out a few months later. I swear I am who I say I am. I want to get as many NHerites as possible to join me. The other day I mentioned it to someone, and she said, "Oh, you're the one." So I guess people have been talking about it.