The chief of police in Montgomery, Alabama apologizing for his department’s failure to protect civil rights workers while Maryland is getting close to abolishing the death penalty show that progress is possible.
Scalia’s argument was so eye-poppingly offensive that lacking any mainstream role models with hoods, critics compared the Justice to America’s favorite all-around bigot, Rush Limbaugh.
Scalia’s contention that protecting voting rights somehow constitutes a ‘racial entitlement’ suggests an extremely disturbing vision of equality.
The Roberts Court continues to take up cases which risk the foundations of this country. If the Chief Justice has any love, if not for this country, than for his own party, he must end this madness.
Hold up on the congratulations for Arpaio, Flake, and a number of other office seekers in the state – Arizona’s got a problem.
Under the guise of protecting the vote, instead groups engage in often times racist purges in order to further their own, immoral agendas.
In a one-two punch, the Department of Justice has followed yesterday’s federal injunction against Florida’s voter suppression law with an order for the state to stop purging their voter roles.
