Supreme Court: Section 4 of Voting Rights Act Unconstitutional

[OttoVonBismarck]

for the black candidate/free money party as they always will.

Shame you made me stop reading right there, as I'm sure the rest of your post was just as lucid.

That sentence was literally added just for you. If you don't have something to get outraged about you'll invent it, so I find it better to just throw the dog a bone. I know you need the outrage a lot more than I need you reading my entire post. 

[11B4V]

So, your saying black people are too lazy to get a picture ID card?

What is wrong with getting the ID?

What part of the constitution allows infringement upon voting rights on those grounds?

That you have to be a US citizen to vote?

[Fate]

So, your saying black people are too lazy to get a picture ID card?

What is wrong with getting the ID?

What part of the constitution allows infringement upon voting rights on those grounds?

That you have to be a US citizen to vote?

So a social security card doesn't prove that, but an expired gun license does? (Texas law)

[11B4V]

So, your saying black people are too lazy to get a picture ID card?

What is wrong with getting the ID?

What part of the constitution allows infringement upon voting rights on those grounds?

That you have to be a US citizen to vote?

So a social security card doesn't prove that, but an expired gun license does? (Texas law)

They have started putting pictures on SS cards when?

[CountDeMoney]

I know you need the outrage a lot more than I need you reading my entire post. 

Not really.  Been seeing your bullshit coming for ten years now.

[DGuller]

And neither was the poll tax or the literacy test.   If you were white.

Ah, those are still ineffect then, eh? Has nothing to do with the ID.

Not yet, those need a SC decision or two.

[Neil]

I know you need the outrage a lot more than I need you reading my entire post. 

Not really.  Been seeing your bullshit coming for ten years now.

Still, at least being outraged gives you something to do, right?

[CountDeMoney]

Still, at least being outraged gives you something to do, right?

Beats playing Russian-designed video games.

[Neil]

Still, at least being outraged gives you something to do, right?

Beats playing Russian-designed video games.

I avoid them.  Even if they seem like they'd be totally awesome and right up my alley.  You can't trust a Russian.

[dps]

So, your saying black people are too lazy to get a picture ID card?

What is wrong with getting the ID?

What part of the constitution allows infringement upon voting rights on those grounds?

That you have to be a US citizen to vote?

You don't have to be a US citizen to vote;  at least it's not a Constitutional requirement.  We've been over this before, but in the past, some states did allow non-citizens who were permanent residents to vote.  Generally speaking, the Constitution gave the states the power to regulate who is or isn't allowed to vote.  That's been heavily restricted by amendments--the states can't discriminate against citizens on the basis of their race, gender, or age if 18 or older--but the basic power still lies with the states.  There's nothing in the Constitution that prohibits states from requiring ID.

[Eddie Teach]

Well to be fair JQ Adams and GW Bush were sort of disastrous.  Siege is probably right here.

Benjamin Harrison and FDR as well.

[Eddie Teach]

That's okay, I have no idea what you were on about with "original sin".

The people who suppressed minority voters prior to 1965 are mostly dead and gone. The current leadership/citizenry of those states have inherited their sins, much like we all inherited Adam & Eve's partaking of the forbidden fruit.

[Valmy]

Does democracy only get destroyed when federal legislation gets overturned, or does it get destroyed when state legislation is overturned as well?

I guess it depends on the legislation in question doesn't it?

[Valmy]

Well to be fair JQ Adams and GW Bush were sort of disastrous.  Siege is probably right here.

Benjamin Harrison and FDR as well.

FDR doesn't count.  He was like a 12th cousin of Teddy.

[Valmy]

That you have to be a US citizen to vote?

Do we really have to rehash the points we have been making about this in the past 20 threads?  It seems so tiresome.