One location in Texas had tried to overload black voting polls by limiting the locations and the day before yesterday lower courts had deemed this tactic discriminatory, but now with no map, it is fine so Texas can go ahead in that location and limit poling places.
But even the movement back then wasn't just about blacks, they were the targets of discrimination back then, so even if right wingers want to claim there is no current discrimination I call bullshit on that. The republican party now has free reign to gerrymander laws and polling places that discriminate against any location that has a high population of likely liberal voters, including college students and Hispanics and working poor.
Whites back then made it about blacks but the new discrimination is basically gerrymandering against any political opposition. Voting rights is a human rights issue, not a race issue.
If in Texas the rolls were reversed and democrats limited republican polling places to the same lopsided degree Texas has allowed against liberals, republicans would be crying voter suppression.
What good does this law now do when there is no current map and to expect the right wing nuts to make a new one is patently absurd. They might put on a show and write bills for show but put poison pills in them so they can say "I tried".
Like I said, having the building doesn't mean jack shit if the pillars that hold it up are damaged. I am not trusting the party that has attacked the middle class and poor, women and minorities.
Republicans are dying as a party and are desperate and cheating is the only way now they can win.
But even the movement back then wasn't just about blacks, they were the targets of discrimination back then, so even if right wingers want to claim there is no current discrimination I call bullshit on that. The republican party now has free reign to gerrymander laws and polling places that discriminate against any location that has a high population of likely liberal voters, including college students and Hispanics and working poor.
Whites back then made it about blacks but the new discrimination is basically gerrymandering against any political opposition. Voting rights is a human rights issue, not a race issue.
If in Texas the rolls were reversed and democrats limited republican polling places to the same lopsided degree Texas has allowed against liberals, republicans would be crying voter suppression.
What good does this law now do when there is no current map and to expect the right wing nuts to make a new one is patently absurd. They might put on a show and write bills for show but put poison pills in them so they can say "I tried".
Like I said, having the building doesn't mean jack shit if the pillars that hold it up are damaged. I am not trusting the party that has attacked the middle class and poor, women and minorities.
Republicans are dying as a party and are desperate and cheating is the only way now they can win.
