Right wing has begun yet another attack on the 65 Voting Rights Act.

[HomerJS]

Private citizens have been bringing voting rights cases for 60 years. A Republican selected federal appeals court has now ruled private citizens and groups cannot bring voting rights cases, only the US Attorney General can. When Trump came into office all voting rights cases stopped. Can you imagine ANY Republican administration bring a voting rights case on behalf of minorities. Look at the various states, GOP has spent all their energy trying to disenfranchise minority voters.

I'm posting 2 sources for the information. First Rachel Maddow sums up this ruling.

Article detailing the ruling.

Appeals court says private citizens, civil rights groups can’t sue under Voting Rights Act

A federal appeals court issued a ruling Monday declaring that only the U.S. government, not private citizens and civil rights groups, can sue under the Voting Rights Act, a decision that would deal…

thehill.com

IMO - Republicans see recent state victories on gerrymandering in states where Republicans are in violation of the Voting Rights Act. They want these cases to stop and they know Republican administrations will not enforce voting rights. Republicans have been fighting voting rights since its inception. Remember the Shelby v Holder case where the preclearance part of the VRA was struck down? That rule said states that had a history of discrimination had to get approval from DOJ in advance before and vote related changes. SCOTUS struck it down on the premise that discrimination against black people was no longer a problem. Of course the recent Alabama decision has proven Alito wrong.

 

[BoomerD]

It's simple...we are only going to allow the people we want to vote to have the right to vote.

 

[dainthomas]

Imagine if the government said you couldn't sue to enforce your first or second amendment rights, only an agent of the government could, whenever they get around to it (if ever)?

 

[Fenixgoon]

Imagine if the government said you couldn't sue to enforce your first or second amendment rights, only an agent of the government could, whenever they get around to it (if ever)?

if this goes through with the VRA, liberals should absolutely play the same game with the 2A. and they should also use the bounty system just like texas and all those other backwards-ass states do with abortions. bring the whole damn legal system to its knees by punishing conservatives with their own logic.

 

[cytg111]

Holy crap. Thats like… cheating

 

[soulcougher73]

Holy crap. Thats like… cheating

From the GOP no less. Shocking. /s

 

[BoomerD]

From the GOP no less. Shocking. /s

I know...who'd have thunk it?

 

[cytg111]

Been trying to look it up, is it listed somewhere which judges involved?

 

[Jaskalas]

Can you imagine ANY Republican administration bring a voting rights case on behalf of minorities.

Yes, yes I can. Some day. What is your definition of minority?

Majority-minority societies
Whites being over 50% of our population has a limited shelf life.

 

[iRONic]

Our Republican super majority legislature goes to work trying to limit as much voting access as possible in Kentucky:

'Dumb stuff': Michael Adams fears election bills will make 'national mockery' of Kentucky

Oooops, too late!

-There’s Senate Bill 61, a measure from Sen. John Schickel of Union and six other Republican co-sponsors that would eliminate three days of early voting and require all no-excuse in-person voting to take place on Election Day. His position isn’t based on potential fraud or the finances behind keeping the polls open — instead, he’s told colleagues, it’s about taking action against “those who say we should worship at the altar of convenience and casualness.”

“It would be disastrous to try to take away three of our four voting days going into an election with expected turnout in the millions,” Adams said. “And it would also just be a bad look for our state. We would be the subject of boycotts, national mockery — ‘Look at Kentucky, they had four days to vote but now they just have one. What’s going on down there?’”

-Senate Bill 77 would require a voting tally after Election Day. SB 78 would require all voting system equipment be produced in the U.S. SB 79 revises recount procedures. SB 82 would make additional amendments to the process, while SB 83 would cut straight-party voting as an option on ballots and SB 84would initiate a risk-limiting audit at each polling location once polls are closed to certify election results.

-A separate GOP proposal, House Bill 341, would leave it to voters to determine whether individuals who are not U.S. citizens should be eligible to vote in Kentucky. It was approved Tuesday in the House despite concerns raised by Democrats

-SB 80 would amend KRS 117.001, a Kentucky statute, to strip IDs from public or private colleges from the list of documents that qualify as primary "proof of identification" at the polls. It also would remove credit and debit cards from the list of secondary documents that can help prove an individual who doesn't have a primary ID is eligible to vote

 

[soulcougher73]

Sounds about on point for Republicans. "Can't beat em? Cheat em!"

 

[HomerJS]

I predicted when Trump cane I to office he would try to kill the 64 Civil Rights Act / 65 Voting Rights Act. Here we go but Trump isn’t racist, right?

Trump Attempts to Gut the 1964 Civil Rights Act with an Executive Order - Davis Vanguard

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order titled "Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy" that effectively nullifies disparate impact liability, a core method by which the federal government enforces the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and redefines civil rights in American law...

davisvanguard.org

 

[cytg111]

IF YOU NOT STRAIGHT WHITE MALE ITS DEI.

Ok?

 

[DZero]

if this goes through with the VRA, liberals should absolutely play the same game with the 2A. and they should also use the bounty system just like texas and all those other backwards-ass states do with abortions. bring the whole damn legal system to its knees by punishing conservatives with their own logic.

A civil war is likely to happen and the conservatives will become fully allies with Russia... the cost? Losing all the allies they have.

 

[nakedfrog]

IF YOU NOT STRAIGHT WHITE MALE ITS DEI.

Ok?

As the founding fathers intended, right? It's just historical accuracy.