VRA was great but it is about as useful today as Civil Areonautics Board after airline deregulation.Bklyn wrote:VRA.
14th vs 15th Amendments.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will062713.php3
George Will wrote:It is anti-constitutional to argue that it would have been admirable "restraint" for the court to respect Congress' decision to extend all of the VRA — whether from conviction, cowardice or sloth — regardless of what the court has called the act's "substantial federalism costs."
Tuesday's decision came nine years after a presidential election in which most of the states where higher portions of whites than blacks were registered were in states (e.g., Massachusetts) not covered by Section 5.
The decision came eight months after a presidential election in which African-Americans voted at a higher rate than whites.
It came when in a majority of the nine states covered by the preclearance requirements, blacks are registered at a higher rate than whites.
It came when Mississippi has more black elected officials — not more per capita; more — than any other state.
