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Jun. 25th, 2013 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingUS Supreme Court (5-4 Faith-based to fact-based justices, like usual) guts Voting Rights Act, legalises Jim Crow restrictions intended to prevent minorities from voting.
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fengi put it: "The case was brought by states run by fucking racists who are openly trying to restrict the vote now, the fact they brought a case was evidence to uphold the law."
(Emphasis mine)
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fengi put it: "The case was brought by states run by fucking racists who are openly trying to restrict the vote now, the fact they brought a case was evidence to uphold the law."(Emphasis mine)
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Date: 2013-06-25 05:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2013-06-25 09:37 pm (UTC)"This is a sign of tremendous racial progress. And Congress, if it decides to look into this, needs to take account of that and go into this with, at best a scalpel and not a hatchet, as it did based on conditions that existed back in 1972 that fortunately no longer exist today." (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/25/195506795/supreme-court-strikes-down-key-provision-of-voting-rights-law)
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Date: 2013-06-25 09:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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