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THANKS JUDY AND IKIE ! FINALLY… the United States Supreme Court actually does its job to balance the power…. The striking of this section of the Voting Rights Act puts states back in control of elections in their states and removes the power of the corrupt justice department. Eric Holder’s Justice Department can no longer block states from requiring voter ID or any other regulations the states put in place in order to ensure the integrity of the election process.. President Barack Obama said today he was “deeply disappointed” that the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a key portion of the Voting Rights Act and called on Congress to pass a new law to ensure equal access to voting polls for all. “I am deeply disappointed with the Supreme Court’s decision today,” Obama said in a statement, saying the action “upsets decades of well-established practices that help make sure voting is fair, especially in places where voting discrimination has been historically prevalent. The Supreme Court gutted a key portion of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965, ruling that Congress used obsolete reasoning in continuing to force nine states, mainly in the South, to get federal approval for voting rule changes affecting blacks and other minorities. In a 5-4 decision with the court’s conservative justices in the majority, the court ruled in favor of officials from Shelby County, Alabama, by declaring invalid a section of the law that set a formula that determines which states need federal approval to change voting laws. Writing for the majority, conservative Chief Justice John Roberts said the coverage formula that Congress used when it most recently re-authorized the law in 2006 should have been updated. “Congress did not use the record it compiled to shape a coverage formula grounded in current conditions,” he wrote. “It instead re-enacted a formula based on 40-year-old facts having no logical relationship to the present day.” The coverage formula therefore violates the sovereignty of the affected states under the U.S. Constitution, Roberts said. One of the most closely watched disputes of the court’s current term, the case centers on the civil rights-era law that broadly prohibited poll taxes, literacy tests and other measures that prevented blacks from voting. In the 1960s, such laws existed throughout the country but were more prevalent in the South with its legacy of slavery. Read more on this story at The Gazette Read more: janmorganmedia/2013/06/supreme-court-strikes-key-part-of-voting-rights-act/#ixzz2XFmEBndg
Posted on: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 18:20:20 +0000

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