The Supreme Court sent the law back to the Congress to rewrite for a larger application. The DOJ still has every right to file a lawsuit against any state for egregious laws.
In all honestly, we still have the 14th and 19th Amendment to the USA Constitution besides The Voting Rights Act.
The 14th Amendment states: No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
By Phil Mattingly - Jul 25, 2013 12:34 PM ET
The U.S. Justice Department,(click here) deprived by the Supreme Court of the power to pre-emptively halt state voting laws it finds discriminatory, will seek a federal court ruling to force Texas to get approval before changing any of its election laws.
“We believe the state of Texas should be required to go through a preclearance process whenever it changes its voting laws and practices,” Attorney General Eric Holder Holder said in prepared remarks for the National Urban League Annual Conference in Philadelphia...
And there is the 1866 Civil Rights Act (click here).
The 13th Amendment ended slavery and the USA Constitution was a civil rights document from the beginning. Besides any anti-discrimination legislation at the federal and state levels.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
If women and/or men are finding there is obstruction to asserting their CONSTITUTIONAL rights then it is litigable ONCE AGAIN all the way to the Supreme Court.
The AG should be seeking injunctions to any voting rights CHANGES that has proven statistical oppressive effects. All the communities need is ONE example of any person aggrieved by the new OR revised laws.
The Fifteenth Amendment (click here).
The reason States BELIEVE they have the RIGHT to run roughshod over people that vote against the GOP is because they 'think they can get away with it.' That is the only reason. It is not that the states have the right to carry out illegitimate elections, it is because they believe they can even though they should not. The laws that oppress even ONE VOTERS expression of their will at the ballot box is illegal. It is stated over and over and over again in laws of the USA Constitution and across this country.
The States seeking MORE POWER since the Supreme Court decision and aggressively moving to oppress voters are acting UNCONSTITUTIONALLY and quite possibly illegally.
Does anyone actually believe when President Lincoln freed slaves that he was not committed to their full citizenship. It was that commitment Booth assassinated.
In all honestly, we still have the 14th and 19th Amendment to the USA Constitution besides The Voting Rights Act.
The 14th Amendment states: No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
By Phil Mattingly - Jul 25, 2013 12:34 PM ET
The U.S. Justice Department,(click here) deprived by the Supreme Court of the power to pre-emptively halt state voting laws it finds discriminatory, will seek a federal court ruling to force Texas to get approval before changing any of its election laws.
“We believe the state of Texas should be required to go through a preclearance process whenever it changes its voting laws and practices,” Attorney General Eric Holder Holder said in prepared remarks for the National Urban League Annual Conference in Philadelphia...
And there is the 1866 Civil Rights Act (click here).
The 13th Amendment ended slavery and the USA Constitution was a civil rights document from the beginning. Besides any anti-discrimination legislation at the federal and state levels.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
If women and/or men are finding there is obstruction to asserting their CONSTITUTIONAL rights then it is litigable ONCE AGAIN all the way to the Supreme Court.
The AG should be seeking injunctions to any voting rights CHANGES that has proven statistical oppressive effects. All the communities need is ONE example of any person aggrieved by the new OR revised laws.
The Fifteenth Amendment (click here).
The reason States BELIEVE they have the RIGHT to run roughshod over people that vote against the GOP is because they 'think they can get away with it.' That is the only reason. It is not that the states have the right to carry out illegitimate elections, it is because they believe they can even though they should not. The laws that oppress even ONE VOTERS expression of their will at the ballot box is illegal. It is stated over and over and over again in laws of the USA Constitution and across this country.
The States seeking MORE POWER since the Supreme Court decision and aggressively moving to oppress voters are acting UNCONSTITUTIONALLY and quite possibly illegally.
Does anyone actually believe when President Lincoln freed slaves that he was not committed to their full citizenship. It was that commitment Booth assassinated.
