Native American tribes’ lawsuit could decide who controls Senate in 2015

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: The Hill

A high-profile lawsuit on the voting rights of Native Americans could help determine control of the Senate in the next Congress.

A group of 16 Native Americans, nine of whom are military veterans, is waging a protracted legal battle against Montana’s Democratic secretary of State and county administrators, arguing for improved access to voter registration sites.

The case will be significant for Democrats in 2014 as they vie to keep control of the upper chamber by holding retiring Sen. Max Baucus’s (D-Mont.) seat. Republicans need to pick up six seats to win back control of the Senate.

The litigation is moving forward at the same time as a recent Supreme Court decision that no longer requires a number of jurisdictions to get advance federal permission in order to make changes to their election laws.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/311199-tribes-lawsuit-could-decide-who-controls-senate-in-2015

[AllyCat]

1. I hope they keep up the good fight.

Wish I could be more optimistic that our racist, conservative Supremes would even hear the case, let alone decide in the favor of non-white, poor people.

[Iliyah]

2. Native Americans need better access

in Montana? WOW, sounds like 2012 all over again when mostly minorities had to wait hours to vote. Great job US Supreme Court assholes.

[Berlum]

3. "We have information suggesting that Native Americans came from Kenya." - RepubliBaggers (R)

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"I mean, check their long-form birf certificates and stuff like that. " - RepubliBaggers (R)

[mtasselin]

4. Really

I can not believe that we are all on the same side or I thought we were, but yet the democratic party sounds more like they are republicans. really this shit has to stop now not later but now, if she continues to be a problem get rid of her as soon as possible.

[RC]

5. Why not? The Democratic Party is the shadow of the Republican Party, as it sashays over the cliff.

The (D) does not mean what many thinks it means anymore. Many (D)'s are actually hard core Republicans and they do not even try to hide it anymore.

[elleng]

6. Why? Because

'“What I do not have the authority over is establishing county clerk offices. That authority belongs to the county governing body, the county commissioners.' ?

[Kelvin Mace]

7. They will lose in the SCOTUS

Scalia and his gang have pretty much handed the country over to our corporate masters.

[Vogon_Glory]

8. Voter Registration Might Also Be A Problem In Sd

Voter registration might also be a problem in South Dakota. The guy who moderated a list I also belong to claimed that the Republican-controlled county near the Lakota reservation deliberately kept low stocks of voter registration forms and voter ballots to reduce the impact of Native American voting. After watching the behavior of R's and Teabaggers outside of the old Confederacy, I would not be surprised if he's right.