Supreme Court Has Opportunity To Uphold Our Right To Vote

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George W. Bush's domestic legacy will be a deeply conservative U.S. Supreme Court, one which has already shown its impatience with efforts to redress lingering racial discrimination. It ruled against efforts in Louisville and Seattle to keep schools racially balanced.

Let's hope the Roberts court is more progressive in its views toward voting. The Supreme Court is the last bulwark against an invidious effort to disenfranchise poorer voters, many of them black and brown, through highly restrictive voter ID laws. Such laws have been passed in states around the country, from Arizona to Indiana to Georgia.

The nation's highest court has agreed to hear an appeal of the Indiana law, and its ruling will likely be issued just in time for the 2008 presidential elections. The law -- and similar ones in other states -- should be struck down. By requiring voters to show a state-sponsored ID such as a driver's license, those laws create unfair obstacles for elderly and poor voters who are unlikely to own cars and, therefore, unlikely to drive.

Americans who are safely ensconced in the economic mainstream may find it hard to believe that there are law-abiding voters out there who don't have a driver's license. In writing the majority opinion upholding Indiana's law, Judge Richard Posner, who sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, certainly had that view.
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[no_hypocrisy]

1. They had that opportunity in 2000 and they blew it.

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2. Yes, this is one element in a huge push to deny voters opportunity to vote n/t

[eddiedemocrat]

3. After next election 2008

 The cure is for the system to be changed and we should  have
enough illegal voting information and control of the Senate
and the House and with the President we can even impeach a
Justice if we need to to get a Voting system that is foolproof
from crooked people and we should make it a far more serious
crime if attempted to stop someone from  voting legal or to
keep someone from having his or her voting right denied. 

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Your first post!! Welcome to DU!!!

:hi:

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5. What do we do about this today?

The Department of Justice's Voting Section is pressuring states to purge voter rolls before the 2008 election.