Geogia requires Jim Crow like quiz for US citizens from Peurto Rico to obtain a drivers license

[hal2kilo]

Seriously, how openly racist can a state get? Somebody call the ACLU!

https://www.motherjones.com/politic...ns-about-frogs-and-plantains-lawsuit-alleges/

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I expect it to be low impact as I believe most Puerto Ricans would be smarter than to move to Georgia.

 

[zinfamous]

Remember how the effectiveness of the Voting Rights Act was also somehow evidence that it was no longer needed?

 

[TheVrolok]

I'd say I'm surprised, but I'm not. Pretty fucked up. They are literally US citizens. I wonder what the ramifications of changing the reciprocity laws would be. I'm sure there are ramifications I am unaware of, but a question worth asking.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

My god they seize all the guys documents then call him in and charge him for submitting fake documents. While he is waiting for that to process, still without his driver's license, they issue him a state ID card after he gets a new birth certificate and SSN card. The state ID card has THE SAME requirements as the license.

 

[DarthKyrie]

My god they seize all the guys documents then call him in and charge him for submitting fake documents. While he is waiting for that to process, still without his driver's license, they issue him a state ID card after he gets a new birth certificate and SSN card. The state ID card has THE SAME requirements as the license.

WTF only in Reichwing country does this make any kind of sense.

 

[HomerJS]

Remember how the effectiveness of the Voting Rights Act was also somehow evidence that it was no longer needed?

Didn't Alito argue states have changed their racist behavior therefore don't require pre-clearance?

 

[K1052]

That is some crazy shit the courts will likely not look kindly on.

 

[DarthKyrie]

That is some crazy shit the courts will likely not look kindly on.

That doesn't matter to the God-Emporer and his cult. Trump should be allowed to do whatever he wants because they elected him to fuck over everyone that isn't them.

 

[K1052]

That doesn't matter to the God-Emporer and his cult. Trump should be allowed to do whatever he wants because they elected him to fuck over everyone that isn't them.

I'm sure run of the mill MAGA hats yea. Most federal judges...probably not going to be fans of dumb arbitrary standards with no basis in law only applied to Puerto Ricans. The state will get beaten in court.

 

[DarthKyrie]

I'm sure run of the mill MAGA hats yea. Most federal judges...probably not going to be fans of dumb arbitrary standards with no basis in law only applied to Puerto Ricans. The state will get beaten in court.

I used to believe that the courts would prevent shit like this, but then the SCOTUS castrated the Voting Rights Act.

 

[Amused]

I expect it to be low impact as I believe most Puerto Ricans would be smarter than to move to Georgia.

Georgia has a very large Puerto Rican population because of 13 major military bases including the home of the US Army Infantry and Airborne school. I met my first wife in Georgia while in the Army and she was a second Puerto Rican whose father joined the Army from PR and rose to CSM before retirement.

 

[interchange]

Straight up illegal racist bullshit. It's not enough sometimes that a court deem something illegal. I would support some mechanism to penalize things like this.

 

[Jhhnn]

Georgia can't let Alabama have all the glory...

 

[Indus]

Seriously why the fuck would anyone wanna live in a hurricane central State?

 

[Luna1968]

Why, whats the purpose?

 

[Luna1968]

You mean the entire east coast and gulf states? And dont you live in NY?

 

[Jaskalas]

Seriously why the fuck would anyone wanna live in a hurricane central State?

Hurricane? Don't live at the beach, problem solved.

 

[Jhhnn]

Hurricane? Don't live at the beach, problem solved.

Hurricanes create inland flooding & damaging winds many miles from the beach. Witness hurricane Harvey-

https://www.weather.gov/images/hgx/...rainfalltotal_westgulfriverforecastcenter.PNG

 

[Jhhnn]

Why, whats the purpose?

For being a racist dick? In Georgia? It's traditional.

 

[nickqt]

Seriously why the fuck would anyone wanna live in a hurricane central State?

Atlanta is in Georgia. Atlanta is great.

Once you get outside of Atlanta, and a few other metro areas in Georgia, it's basically Mississippi.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Seriously why the fuck would anyone wanna live in a hurricane central State?

- Honestly? Because its god damn beautiful. As someone who grew up in Southern California and now lives in Northern California, the sheer amount of green in the deep south is magical. Also, history of the eastern states has a sort of allure to a westerner where everything seems to have been built in either the last 50 or 20 years. Most people are perfectly polite, they know how to fry things, and everything is third world levels of cheap.

This story is some straight up bullshit though. Throw the book at 'em.

 

[dawp]

Hurricane? Don't live at the beach, problem solved.

not really, I'm in charlotte, NC and we get hit with hurricanes and we're a couple of hundred miles inland.

 

[Meghan54]

not really, I'm in charlotte, NC and we get hit with hurricanes and we're a couple of hundred miles inland.

I've lived a from seventy-five to a couple of hundred miles inland off the East Coast the majority of my life and while hurricanes do generate a lot of rain and wind, neither of us suffer from probably the worst impact of a hurricane...storm surge. I'll take a hurricane any day vs. a tornado or wildfire.

 

[pmv]

Would be far better if they made 'actually being able to drive' a condition for getting a driving licence. The US has never really stressed that aspect of it, though. Seems as if it's only the 'voter ID' element that anyone cares about, hence, I guess, the absurd non-motoring-related questions.