(June 25, 2013 at 11:17 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Bullshit, you'd have me believe a republican party which has favored corporate America, has fucked workers rights over, has bowed to global corporatism, has attacked female control over reproductive rights and be trusted with voting rights considering they constantly over the past few years have mass produced voter ID laws and attempts to ban early voting and gerrymandered on a mafia scale, whose mantra since Obama's first election made their goal to prevent him from getting a second term, and announced so even before his first Inauguration.
You'd have me believe they have voters rights in our interest? No this is not Teddy Roosevelt's republican party, it isn't even Reagan's republican party, this current bunch is a throwback to pre civil war era where only white rich guys had any rights. They are the bat shit crazy party.
I'm not trying to prove anything for the Republican Party. I agree that the Republican party is largely bought out (so are Democrats). But what does any of this have to do with the Voting Rights Act? The one thing that you have made clear in that rant is that you chose a side and will stick with it, and shout down the other side because they are the other side. My point is a broken clock can still be right twice, and though I agree that that section of the bill should have been knocked down, I don't agree with it for the same reasons the Republican Party does.
There is a very simple way that Congress can fix this problem. Create a federal holiday for elections, that requires businesses close for the day so all Americans can vote and/or volunteer at a voting center. Keep in mind that many minorities work lower wage jobs, that require longer hours to provide sufficiently for their families. Which is why early voting is such a popular trend amongst minority voters, it allows them to vote without the major interference of having to take a day off to go to the polls. It can be done in a more flexible fashion.
You make a federal holiday and chances are you probably wouldn't even need early voting at all. But ultimately a voting holiday gives everyone an equal chance to vote. And besides, what better way to show our support for the democratic values we love than to devote a whole day to it?
(June 25, 2013 at 11:17 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Do you think Judge Ginsburg who has spent her life studying case law and precedence called the majority's decision "demolition" for nothing?
This is silly. I could say the same thing about any of the other justices.
"Do you think Judge Roberts who has spent his life studying case law and precedence called the majority's decision "good" for nothing?"
