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kpete

(71,991 posts) Thu Feb 28, 2013, 09:46 PM Feb 2013

A Picture That Should Make Scalia Hang His Head In Shame [View all]

JUSTICE SCALIA: The Voting Rights Act Is A 'Racial Entitlement'
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/scalia-voting-rights-act-racial-entitlement-supreme-court-vra-2013-2#ixzz2MFSFOyCq

John Lewis, future congressman, after having his skull fractured
by police in a protest in Selma, Alabama, March 1965.

A week and a day after Bloody Sunday, President Johnson appeared before a joint session of Congress to demand passage of the Voting Rights Act, empowering the federal government to enforce the voting rights of all Americans. The passage of the voting rights act finally brought the federal government into the struggle, squarely on the side of the disenfranchised voters of the South.

http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/lew0bio-1

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A Picture That Should Make Scalia Hang His Head In Shame [View all] kpete Feb 2013 OP

should, but it's pretty clear he has no shame fishwax Feb 2013 #1

NONE. He's a smug, arrogant, cocky prick. calimary Feb 2013 #3

I say that the SCOTUS should not have the power of judicial review. rhett o rick Feb 2013 #6

+1 Totally lacking any sense of shame. nt DCKit Mar 2013 #19

He propably has the photo on his wall goclark Feb 2013 #2

Tony "Hedgebrows" Scalia has no shame. TheCowsCameHome Feb 2013 #4

"Justice" Scalia. sheshe2 Feb 2013 #5

Bigots are the majority on the Supreme Court... ReRe Feb 2013 #7

Nice, huh. quite the legacy those Presidents left the country with Cha Mar 2013 #13

My soul.... ReRe Mar 2013 #23

Scalia probably scrubs his nub to that pic FoxNewsSucks Feb 2013 #8

He looks like he got pulled out of central casting Cha Mar 2013 #14

Because discharge Mar 2013 #15

No, but tony scalia is. Cha Mar 2013 #17

He was known as "Tony the Fixer" when he worked for Nixon. Ikonoklast Mar 2013 #21

He would have to have a conscience to fell shame. He has no ability to sabrina 1 Feb 2013 #9

Well said...and tragically correct. Boomerproud Mar 2013 #22

Republicans disgust me, dirty scumbag bastards! DrewFlorida Feb 2013 #10

Scalia is a sociopath The Wizard Mar 2013 #11

There is no person on earth I respect more than John Lewis NBachers Mar 2013 #12

The Voting Rights Act needs to be expanded not restricted Bjorn Against Mar 2013 #16

K & R Scurrilous Mar 2013 #18

hang his head ... speaking of his head ... napkinz Mar 2013 #20