Things were going along just fine. Then the Robert's Court through everything into chaos.
I have addressed this mess once before on the blog and included all the pertinent law, the amendments to the US Constitution starting with ten, fourteen, fifteen, etc.
So as a review there is an article below. Let's just skip to the fallout from the atomic bomb that blew apart lady justices' blindness by the Robert's Court.
There is everything at this site, including oral arguments.
The Fourteenth Amendment protects every person’s
right to due process of law. The Fifteenth Amendment protects citizens
from having their right to vote abridged or denied due to “race, color,
or previous condition of servitude.” The Tenth Amendment reserves all
rights not expressly granted to the federal government to the individual
states. Article Four of the Constitution guarantees the right of
self-government for each state.
The Civil Rights Act of 1965 was enacted as a response to the nearly century-long history of voting discrimination. Section 5 prohibits eligible districts from enacting changes to their election laws and procedures without gaining official authorization. Section 4(b) defines the eligible districts as ones that had a voting test in place as of November 1, 1964 and less than 50% turnout for the 1964 presidential election. Such districts must prove to the Attorney General or a three-judge panel of a Washington, D.C. district court that the change “neither has the purpose nor will have the effect” of negatively impacting any individual’s right to vote based on race or minority status. Section 5 was originally enacted for five years, but has been continually renewed since that time....
I have addressed this mess once before on the blog and included all the pertinent law, the amendments to the US Constitution starting with ten, fourteen, fifteen, etc.
So as a review there is an article below. Let's just skip to the fallout from the atomic bomb that blew apart lady justices' blindness by the Robert's Court.
There is everything at this site, including oral arguments.
The Civil Rights Act of 1965 was enacted as a response to the nearly century-long history of voting discrimination. Section 5 prohibits eligible districts from enacting changes to their election laws and procedures without gaining official authorization. Section 4(b) defines the eligible districts as ones that had a voting test in place as of November 1, 1964 and less than 50% turnout for the 1964 presidential election. Such districts must prove to the Attorney General or a three-judge panel of a Washington, D.C. district court that the change “neither has the purpose nor will have the effect” of negatively impacting any individual’s right to vote based on race or minority status. Section 5 was originally enacted for five years, but has been continually renewed since that time....
