Tuesday, June 25, 2013

No Big Surprise

SCOTUS says places with histories of violating the voting rights of minorities are now free to continue doing so.

More specifically, they chucked out section 4 which determined which areas needed pre-clearance for changes to voting laws under section 5 of the Voter Rights Act. Congress could fix it (well, probably they couldn't even if they wanted to), and monkeys could fly out of my butt, so section 5 is essentially dead.