Civil Rights Icon John Lewis Tears Into Supreme Court For Gutting Voting Rights

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http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/06/25/2211341/civil-rights-icon-john-lewis-tears-into-supreme-court-for-gutting-voting-rights/


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“It is going to be very difficult,” to pass legislation in this Congress, Lewis admitted, “but people said the same thing in 1965.” “I think what happened today with the Supreme Court will motivate hundreds and thousands of people, African American, latino, white, Asian American, Native Americans, men, women, students, to come out. The vote is precious.”

Indeed, in a press conference following the decision, Attorney General Eric Holder noted that federal courts relied on Section 4 of the Act to invalidate discriminatory voter laws in Texas and South Carolina as recently as last year and called on Congress to ensure that everyone’s vote is protected. Since 2010, at least eight of eleven states in the former Confederacy passed voting restrictions and just today, Texas Attorney General announced that the state will move “forward with a controversial voter ID law” in the wake of the ruling

Progressive groups have kicked off a petition to amend the constitution to “protect our freedom to vote,” building on legislation proposed by Democrats in the House. The measure will have to be approved by Congress and ratified by three-fourths of the states
http://www.freetovote.org/

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“I didn’t think that on that day when President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, that I would live to see five members of the United States Supreme Court undoing what President Johnson did with those pens,” Lewis added. “We must not forget our past. We must not forget our history. If we forget it, we will repeat it.”

[JustAnotherGen]

1. I knew it

I knew that trickster in Texas had something up his sleeve.

[kelliekat44]

2. The backlash must be insurmountable.

In 2014 we must prove to ourselves who we really are...on all sides. I don't ever want to hear a Rwinger decry "judicial activism" again. We now see that the Congress disrespects the President; now we see that SCOTUS disrespects the Congress and the American people. Come 2014 we must diss the SCOTUS and in 2016 we must ensure the election of Dems everywhere. And get rid of the DINOs.