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Originally Posted by epitome
It may be hard for you to think this one all the way through, but lets try anyway...
DOJ busts a woman voting 5 times without the new Texas voter ID law.
Perhaps DOJ is confident that existing voter registration laws will allow it to properly do its job?
You do know that the fight is over the Supreme Court ruling in June that states do not have to obey certain parts of the 1965 Voter Rights Law, including the requirement that they notify the DOJ before changing their voting laws?
You do know why the 1965 Voter Rights Law came about, right?
You realize that it is Southern states that hate the 1965 Voter Rights Law, right?
Finally, you realize that it has predominately been the Southern states that have tried to smother the rights of minorities, right? It did not stop when the Civil War ended. |
I know about the Voters rights act of 1965
First
The Act was passed by the U.S. Congress over strong opposition within the Democratic Party. President Lyndon Johnson asked Republican Minority Leader Everett Dirksen for help [2] in breaking the Democratic filibuster. Dirksen spoke on the Senate floor,
? The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing of government, in education, and in employment. It must not be stayed or denied. It is here! ?
Under Johnson, the Senate had not been able to muster enough votes to cut off a filibuster on a Civil Rights Bill. With Republican support, the final count showed 44 Democrats and 27 Republicans voting to end the filibuster, with 23 Democrats and only 6 Republicans opposed. The formal Senate vote on the bill took place on June 19, 1964. It passed overwhelmingly, 73-27.
The final Senate vote on August 4 was 49 Democrats and 30 Republicans in favor, one Republican and 17 Democrats opposed. Segregationists who voted against the Voting Rights Act were J. William Fulbright [3], awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bill Clinton, and Al Gore, Sr., father of Democratic Presidential Nominee Al Gore.
Second the section you are going on about, the requirement of the states to notify the DOJ before changing their voting laws, was only suppose to be temporary, 5 years, and has been extended several times
Third, Bill Clinton violated the Voters Rights act of 1965 while the Governor of Arkansas
Clinton vs Jeffers
The Supreme Justices wrote:
Bill Clinton does not dispute here -- that violations of the fourteenth or fifteenth amendment justifying equitable relief have occurred in Arkansas. In May 1990, the district court turned to those claims, holding that "the State of Arkansas has committed a number of constitutional violations of the voting rights of black citizens." J.S. App. A5. In particular, the court determined that the "State has systematically and deliberately enacted new majority-vote requirements for municipal offices, in an effort to frustrate black political success in elections traditionally requiring only a plurality to win." In 1990...Devotion to majority rule for local offices lay dormant as long as the plurality system produced white office-holders. But whenever black candidates used this system successfully -- and victory by a plurality has been virtually their only chance of success in at-large elections in majority-white cities ? the response was swift and certain. Laws were passed in an attempt to close off this avenue of black political victory.