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Are they Right? Or are they People right? I will go with them, since the people seem to be very hypocritical on the two recent rulings.
1. On Tuesday June 25, 2013 The Supreme Court of the United States struck down a key portion of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. According to many liberals and blacks this is evil and bad! For it MAY allow voting discrimination to come back. Especially with the south’s (mainly Texas’) evil voting ID laws. The liberal and black communities fail to mention that John Roberts basically believes that the world has moved past racism and voting discrimination. For all intents and purposes it has! With no evidence to support these claims the liberal hero of Obamacare, John Roberts, is now part of an evil right wing conspiracy to control the election cycle! Even though, these same liberals think that the GOP is working with the Democrats on immigration just to get Hispanic votes…
2. Today, June 26, 2013 The Supreme Court of the United States struck down DOMA. Now, 12 states and the District of Columbia authorize same-sex marriages. Liberal cable news anchors seemingly forgetting last night that they accused the SCOTUS of being part of a racist right wing conspiracy theory, are hailing the decision which gives access to federal benefits to same sex marriage couples…in California.
This is almost the same thing is it not?
I'm just trying to figure out if SCOTUS is liberal or conservative, head is spinning now...
I believe they are pretty much neutral.
Which they should be.
But often aren't...
Then we should be happy when we can't tell.
I'm just trying to figure out if SCOTUS is liberal or conservative, head is spinning now...
I would be if I could see any overarching principle guiding their decisions like say the constitution, but I can't so that's disturbing.
This is almost the same thing is it not? It's just a different states rights issue. Gay Marriage benefits and voting.
I think the last few days where quite illuminating. God knows, I am not given to bouts of irrational optimism (I am a Slav, 'nuf said). But look at the composition of the SCOTUS votes, pro and contra, on the Californian Prop 8.
I know it is almost a blasphemy, if you ask my fellow libertarians, but...apparently, "the system" does "work". Sometimes.
Make no mistake: Scalia and Roberts did not want to join the "liberals" on this one. But they thought that they have to. To preserve their "intellectual integrity", or whatever else you want to call it.
At the risk of sounding all giddy-patriotic - this is a good day for America.
At the end of this string of decisions by the SCOTUS I feel just the opposite. I've never been less proud or less hopeful for our country. If I were younger I'd probably rebel, but as it is I'll probably ride out my remaining years as far under the radar as I can get and be comfortable, and apologize to my grandchildren for handing them a permanently broken country.
To be clear, it's not just this decision, this is just the final straw for me.
i'm a bit disappointed that they punted Prop 8, but overall, it was a pretty good day for equal protection. another case will make its way through the courts in a few years, and then the matter will be settled as per Loving v Virginia.
But...why?
Why do you see this as a sign of our country "being permanently broken"?!
I am not playing any games here - I am honestly trying to understand: Why the government assigning equal legal status to homosexual couples is an issue - AT ALL?
The country is permanently broken in my view because we have allowed the court to openly engage in social engineering.
Are they Right? Or are they People right? I will go with them, since the people seem to be very hypocritical on the two recent rulings.
1. On Tuesday June 25, 2013 The Supreme Court of the United States struck down a key portion of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. According to many liberals and blacks this is evil and bad! For it MAY allow voting discrimination to come back. Especially with the south’s (mainly Texas’) evil voting ID laws. The liberal and black communities fail to mention that John Roberts basically believes that the world has moved past racism and voting discrimination. For all intents and purposes it has! With no evidence to support these claims the liberal hero of Obamacare, John Roberts, is now part of an evil right wing conspiracy to control the election cycle! Even though, these same liberals think that the GOP is working with the Democrats on immigration just to get Hispanic votes…
2. Today, June 26, 2013 The Supreme Court of the United States struck down DOMA. Now, 12 states and the District of Columbia authorize same-sex marriages. Liberal cable news anchors seemingly forgetting last night that they accused the SCOTUS of being part of a racist right wing conspiracy theory, are hailing the decision which gives access to federal benefits to same sex marriage couples…in California.
This is almost the same thing is it not? It's just a different states rights issue. Gay Marriage benefits and voting.
Doma was unconstitutional what will be interesting now is how they treat states that already have defined marriage.
No. They're about people's rights. Who gives a crap about the rights of a state? Especially when the only right that states ever seem to need is the right to strip people of their rights. People need rights, not states. People need the right to vote, and to marry the person they want to marry, without states standing in their way.
Pardon?
How legally accommodating some 5-15% of the population is "social engineering", and legally accommodating the remaining 85% is not? What are we, heterosexuals - chopped liver?!
Are they Right? Or are they People right? I will go with them, since the people seem to be very hypocritical on the two recent rulings.
1. On Tuesday June 25, 2013 The Supreme Court of the United States struck down a key portion of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. According to many liberals and blacks this is evil and bad! For it MAY allow voting discrimination to come back. Especially with the south’s (mainly Texas’) evil voting ID laws. The liberal and black communities fail to mention that John Roberts basically believes that the world has moved past racism and voting discrimination. For all intents and purposes it has! With no evidence to support these claims the liberal hero of Obamacare, John Roberts, is now part of an evil right wing conspiracy to control the election cycle! Even though, these same liberals think that the GOP is working with the Democrats on immigration just to get Hispanic votes…
2. Today, June 26, 2013 The Supreme Court of the United States struck down DOMA. Now, 12 states and the District of Columbia authorize same-sex marriages. Liberal cable news anchors seemingly forgetting last night that they accused the SCOTUS of being part of a racist right wing conspiracy theory, are hailing the decision which gives access to federal benefits to same sex marriage couples…in California.
This is almost the same thing is it not? It's just a different states rights issue. Gay Marriage benefits and voting.
No they are not the same.
Striking down the VRA will allow the states to limit (voting) rights of citizens,
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