Voting Rights Act: Appeals Court Upholds Key Provision
WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court has upheld a key provision of the Voting Rights Act and rejected a challenge by an Alabama county to the landmark civil rights law.
In a 2-1 decision, the appeals court said that Congress developed extensive evidence of continuing racial discrimination and reached a reasonable conclusion when it reauthorized the section of the law six years ago.
Appeals Judge David Tatel wrote for the majority that the court owes deference to Congress's judgment on the matter.
The act's section 5 requires state, county and local governments with a history of discrimination to obtain advance approval from the Justice Department, or from a federal court in Washington, for any changes to election procedures.
It currently applies to nine states and parts of seven others.
Ooopsie... It looks like the push to rollback voting rights in the South isn't working too well... Between that, and the odious voter-suppression laws, the GOP might actually have to win elections by winning a majority of the votes, instead of trying suppress the ones they don't like.
It takes quite a long time to get the old racial Democrats to stop trying to deny blacks their right to vote. The Democrats long for the good old days whenever they could deny such rights.
Still trying to push that idea that before the parties flipped and the GOP became the "southern strategy" racists, and the Democrats became the party of FDR, that it's relevant what happened party-wise back in 1868?
God, I love you guys... Just when I think you can't get stupider, you continue to amuse me...
Arlen wrote: It takes quite a long time to get the old racial Democrats to stop trying to deny blacks their right to vote. The Democrats long for the good old days whenever they could deny such rights.
Shelby County is 100 percent run by Republican politicians.
Prior to the early 1980’s, elected officials serving or representing Shelby County were all[citation needed] affiliated with the Democratic Party. Most of the rapid transition from the Democratic Party dominance to a complete reversal, with Republicans in control of all but a couple of offices, took place during the years between 1984 and 1992. It was not, however, until the election of 2010, and specifically the results in Alabama House of Representatives District 42[5], that Republicans held every elected office with jurisdiction or residency (or both) in Shelby County[6] (excludes municipal elected officials, who are elected on a non-partisan basis). The Shelby County Republican Party (Alabama), under the official direction of the Republican Executive Committee of Shelby County, Alabama, is the affiliate of the Alabama Republican Party in Shelby County, and is the identity by which its governing body is known.
If you would get your head out of your ass, you would know that if it is demonstrated that the racism has been reversed, the oversight of the election laws would be stopped. The election of Republicans, replacing the Democrats, should have been very good evidence that the racism perpetuated by the Democrats has ceased. This was a provision of the law.
