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deminks

(11,014 posts)
Tue Jun 25, 2013, 11:12 AM Jun 2013

So SCOTUS makes the VRA unenforceable.

As if Congress is ever going to write new rules when all they can do is repeal Obamacare 37 times.

The states can do whateverthehell they want in the meantime. A freeforall. A poll tax here, a voter list purge there, no one can stop them.

I have changed my avatar accordingly. I haven't 'worn' this one since the Bush days.

We are witnessing a complete unraveling of our country since 2000 at the hands of unelected elites. The coup is almost complete.

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So SCOTUS makes the VRA unenforceable. (Original Post) deminks Jun 2013 OP
The 24th Amendment prevents poll taxes. amb123 Jun 2013 #1
Here are the creme of the scum UTUSN Jun 2013 #2

amb123

(1,581 posts)
1. The 24th Amendment prevents poll taxes.
Tue Jun 25, 2013, 11:26 AM
Jun 2013

But not Literacy Tests!

To the Black: "Please recite Article II of the Constitution word for word from memory please."

To the White: "Please spell the word cat."


Sickening!

UTUSN

(70,686 posts)
2. Here are the creme of the scum
Tue Jun 25, 2013, 11:27 AM
Jun 2013

Let's see, there's the Eye Roller, the Totem Who Doesn't Speak, the Chin Flicker, the Inaugural Squasher, and the Swings One Way.


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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/24/samuel-alito-rolls-eyes_n_3492704.html

[font size=5]Supreme Court Justice Draws Gasps With 'Mini-Tantrum'
Samuel Alito Rolls Eyes While Ruth Bader Ginsburg Reads Dissent[/font]

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito broke from the high court's usual decorum on Monday morning, rolling his eyes and shaking his head as his senior colleague, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, read her dissents in two cases.

Longtime Supreme Court observer Garrett Epps called it a "mini-tantrum" and "display of rudeness."

"Alito pursed his lips, rolled his eyes to the ceiling, and shook his head 'no,'" wrote Epps in the Atlantic. "He looked for all the world like Sean Penn as Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, signaling to the homies his contempt for Ray Walston as the bothersome history teacher, Mr. Hand."

He added that Alito's gestures "brought gasps from more than one person in the audience."

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank echoed Epps' admonishment:

"His treatment of the 80-year-old Ginsburg, 17 years his senior and with 13 years more seniority, was a curious display of judicial temperament, or, more accurately, judicial intemperance," Milbank wrote. "Typically, justices state their differences in words -- and Alito, as it happens, had just spoken several hundred of his own from the bench. But Alito frequently supplements words with middle-school gestures." ....

According to Milbank, 10 days earlier, Alito also "glowered" at Justice Elena Kagan and "rolled his eyes and shook his head" while Justice Sonia Sotomayor was speaking. ....

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