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Featured Appeals court strikes down 'discriminatory' Texas voter ID law

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  1. InTheLight

    InTheLight Well-Known Member
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    Thanks, Lewis.
     
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    InTheLight Well-Known Member
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    For heaven's sake, I've posted this at least four times in the past year.

    15th Amendment:
    The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

    19th Amendment
    The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

    24th Amendment
    The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.

    26th Amendment
    The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.

    So there it is again, the phrase, "the right of the citizens....to vote." Any citizen of any race, any sex, anyone over 18 may vote. (Not felons, though.)
     
    #42 InTheLight, Aug 6, 2015
  3. Revmitchell

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    When you are being rude maybe you should avoid invoking heaven.
     
    #43 Revmitchell, Aug 6, 2015
  4. Lewis

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    You are welcome.
     
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  5. TCassidy

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    ZOOOOOMMMMMM! Right over your head! LOL! ROFLOL!
     
    #45 TCassidy, Aug 6, 2015
  6. Zaac

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    Nope. I placed my comment where even the goats could get it. If I need to dumb it down some more so that you don't fool yourself into thinking your lil "Mandela scenario" matters when it's not what I typed, lemme know.

    Sent from my SGH-M919 using Tapatalk
     
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  7. TCassidy

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    Once again you have proven your total lack of reading comprehension.

    Here, I will try to help you out just a bit. I wrote
    Got that? No enumerated right to vote. Such is not even mentioned until the 14th amendment.

    Then, as I said (and you seem to have missed) voting cannot be denied due to "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

    Then the 19th adds "on account of sex."

    Then the 24th "adds by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax."

    And finally the 26th adds "who are eighteen years of age or older."

    Yet none of these establish the initial right to vote which was supposedly being amended by the 15th, 19th, 24th and 26th amendments.

    The Constitution doe NOT contain a "right to vote."

    Matt Yglesias wrote a good article on this.
    Now do you understand? Has it sunk in yet? The US Constitution does NOT include a "right to vote" but leaves all such details to the states. Period. End of discussion.
     
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  8. TCassidy

    TCassidy Late-Administator Emeritus
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    I don't mind him being rude. I mind him being stupid! Being rude is the only real argument he can muster. :)
     
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  9. Zaac

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    look who is talking about somebody's reading comprehension after you have spent your last few posts trying to make a point about something not mentioned. :laugh:

    [​IMG]
     
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    Steve Benen of MSNBC wrote an interesting article which included:
     
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    It will be overturned by SCOTUS.
     
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    I am sorry you are too stupid to understand the parallel between claiming that voter ID laws are racist and Nelson Mandela's support of voter ID laws.

    I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you. Sorry.
     
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    It shouldn't be, but with the present makeup of SCOTUS it probably would be.

    Maybe after some of the present Justices are replaced SCOTUS will start making decisions that are constitutional and in the best interest of "we the people." But I'm not holding my breath. :)
     
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    Stupid has nothing to do with it unless you're referring to your stupidity of trying to make a point about something that wasn't mentioned.

    Po' thang.

    [​IMG]

    Get some help.
     
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    There is ample precedent. It's a lay down to be overturned.
     
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  16. TCassidy

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    Look. We all know you are a bit slow. But the IRL I posted contained a picture of Nelson Mandela wearing a T-shirt that says "Get an ID. Register. Vote."

    Here it is again. All you have to do is put your cursor (that little arrow thing) on the URL and click it. http://mediatrackers.org/wisconsin/2...-id-shirt-1998

    So, yes, Nelson Mandela was mentioned. He was mentioned in the URL that proves your thesis that Voter ID = Racism is wrong.

    Now, if you still don't understand there is not much more than I can do to help. You might want to steer clear of any political issues that require more than just a little thought. Maybe try basket weaving or something else fairly simple.
     
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  17. Zaac

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    Ain't anybody coming across as slow but you in your continued efforts to try to pull Mandela into a conversation that he had nothing to do with.

    [​IMG]

    There there now.
     
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    There is some precedent. In June of 2013 part of the Voting Rights Act was overturned on the basis that it lacked constitutional support and that such voting laws were left, by the Constitution, in the hands of the states.

    Yesterday the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Texas’ voter ID law violates the Voting Rights Act but also ruled voter ID law was not a poll tax.

    So we are seeing a swing in both directions.
     
    #58 TCassidy, Aug 6, 2015
  19. TCassidy

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    Fine. You are too stupid to understand that Nelson Mandela is not a racist because he supports voting ID laws.

    1 Corinthians 14:38 "But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant."
     
    #59 TCassidy, Aug 6, 2015
  20. Crabtownboy

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    Are you suggesting we use South Africa as a model?
     
    #60 Crabtownboy, Aug 6, 2015
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