Today's decision in Shelby v. Holder certainly ends the era which inspired me in my youth: the lunch counter sit-ins, ending the segregated southern school systems in the south, Misssippi Freedom summer to enforce voting rights. Today the conservative majority on the Supreme Court claims the Voting Rights Act forces the southern states to prove they don't discriminate - when they think it is clear that bygones should be bygones. We know that force isn't necessary to persuade them that a civil rights measure is unlawful - Seattle's voluntary school integration plan was stricken in another Roberts-led majority opinion. I don't know what motivates John Roberts or the other conservatives on the court - aside from a gut resistance to any public action to eliminate the effects of our legacy of slavery, segregation, and racism. As usual Andrew Koppleman has a perspective close to mine. - GWCThe Supreme Court's Voting Rights Blunderby Andrew Koppleman, Northwestern Law School "Roberts writes: “There is no denying ... that the conditions that originally justified these measures no longer characterize voting in the covered jurisdictions.” There is a sense in which this is trivially true, the way it’s true that you can never step into the same river twice. The real question is whether racism is still powerful enough in these places to justify federal intervention. Congress thinks it is. But Roberts is sure that he knows better. The other notorious fact is a wave of voter I.D. laws that are being enacted across the United States. These laws are being justified with the rationale that they are necessary to prevent voter fraud. But that’s a transparent lie. The evidence of such fraud actually occurring is nil. The real reason for such laws is that they reduce the voting rates of blacks and Hispanics, and therefore advantage Republican candidates. Racially motivated voter suppression is still with us. The Supreme Court has just made it easier."'via Blog this'Source:http://blackstonetoday.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-supreme-courts-voting-rights.html
The Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Blunder -- Koppleman - New York Magazine Images
If you're wondering what it takes to look like The Rock (aside from ridiculous genetics), the new "Hercules" star just revealed the diet he maintains to play the son of Zeus -- and it's unbelievable. Rock just posted the breakdown on Twitter -- and it includes 7 full meals with ridiculous quantities of food, including rice, 14 egg whites, all kinds of vegetables, and more than 3 POUNDS of meat. It's been working too ... Rock's been posting pics of himself during filming (above) and he's more jacked than ever. Unfortunately, you can't just eat like The Rock to look like him ... you kinda have to go to the gym too.....Maybe tomorrow.
