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Week 9 NFL Game Recaps
Falcons 31, Colts 7
This was seriously like a blooper reel. Indianapolis was guilty of the following ridiculous plays:
- Delone Carter fumbled the ball on the second play of the game. The Falcons took over and scored with Michael Turner (19-71, TD) after running it five consecutive times. All they had to do was rush the football. Carter (4-8) was benched in favor of Donald Brown (16-70).
- On the next drive, Curtis Painter (13-27, 98 yards, INT) threw a terrible interception to Kelvin Hayden - a cornerback whom the Colts cut earlier this year.
- Painter had a pass of his tipped back to him. He then decided to throw the ball again, and consequently was whistled as an illegal forward pass.
- Julio Jones (3-131, 2 TDs) caught touchdown passes of 50 and 80 yards. On the former, Jones was covered by three Colt defenders, who couldn't do anything to stop the stud rookie wideout.
Saints 27, Buccaneers 16
By Charlie Campbell - @draftcampbell
After a missing field goal, New Orleans got on the board with a drive led by running back Darren Sproles. He started it with a 35-yard run up the middle of the Tampa Bay defense. On the next play, Sproles caught a swing pass for 15 yards. They finished the drive with Drew Brees throwing a fade pass to Lance Moore for a short touchdown.
The next drive saw the Saints move the ball downfield quickly. They pounded the Buccaneers' run defense on the ground and set up a 21-yard screen pass to Sproles for a touchdown and a 14-0 lead.
Just before halftime, Tampa Bay's offense got going. Freeman lofted a deep ball to wide receiver Dezmon Briscoe for a 46-yard gain. That set up a field goal to cut New Orleans' lead to 14-3. Brees led a quick-strike drive to get the three points back.
In the third quarter, Brees was intercepted by veteran Ronde Barber on a dump off pass to Sproles. That set up the Buccaneers to get another field goal. It could have been more, but an idiotic late hit penalty by running back LeGarrette Blount put Tampa Bay in a 3rd-and-15. The Saints answered with a long drive to take a commanding lead. Running back Pierre Thomas charged through a few defenders to score a 9-yard touchdown run.
Freeman later tried to mount a comeback for the Buccaneers. He led a field goal drive to start the fourth quarter, and after getting the ball back, he engineered a 77-yard drive for a touchdown. Freeman made a clutch third-down play to wide receiver Mike Williams and tossed a 5-yard pass to tight end Kellen Winslow in the back of the end zone to cap the drive. That cut the Saints' lead to 24-16 with five-and-half minutes left. New Orleans put the game away on their next possession when they drove down the field and kicked a field goal.
Brees finished the afternoon 27-of-36 for 258 yards with two touchdowns and one interception. Jimmy Graham led the Saints with six receptions for 78 yards. Sproles had 89 yards rushing and receiving with a touchdown reception.
Freeman finished the game 27-of-37 for 267 yards and one touchdown. Blount ran for 72 yards on 13 carries. Williams paced Tampa Bay in receiving with six catches for 46 yards. The Buccaneers killed themselves with terrible gap integrity in run defense and horrible tackling. They also played very undisciplined football with a number of stupid, critical penalties.
Texans 30, Browns 12
All kidding aside, this score was completely indicative of how much of a bloodbath this matchup was. In the first quarter and a half alone, Houston had outgained the Browns, 216-38. Cleveland's tackling effort against Ben Tate and Arian Foster was pathetic.
The Browns' offense, meanwhile, wasn't going anywhere. Colt McCoy didn't threaten the secondary, and it didn't help that Chris Ogbonnaya (13-28), starting in place of Peyton Hillis and Montario Hardesty, coughed up the ball right away. Ogbonnaya's fumble on Cleveland's opening drive allowed the Texans to score an easy second touchdown, putting the game out of reach.
The Browns ruined any chance they had with another turnover right before halftime. McCoy foolishly heaved a weak-arm lob into triple coverage on a 2nd-and-19. It was naturally picked off, allowing the Texans to kick a field goal with two seconds remaining prior to intermission.
McCoy went 14-of-22 for 146 yards, one touchdown and a pick. If it wasn't obvious before, Cleveland has to look for a new quarterback this offseason.
Jets 27, Bills 11
Fred Jackson was also guilty of a key give-away. Down just 6-0 at the beginning of the third quarter, he fumbled deep in his own territory, giving New York an easy touchdown drive. Given Buffalo's inability to move the chains - they had just three first downs up until that point - a 13-0 deficit was just too much for them to overcome.
Dolphins 31, Chiefs 3
Two of Moore's touchdowns went to Anthony Fasano (2-38), who actually dropped one of Moore's few incompletions. Brandon Marshall (8-106) had the other score.
Cassel went 20-of-39 for 253 yards. With a ton of pressure in his face (five sacks), he had to run around a lot. In fact, he fell two yards short of leading his team in rushing yardage. Jackie Battle (14-40) paced the Chiefs in that category.
49ers 19, Redskins 11
By Greg Cox - @ActuallyGregCox
The Redskins did start with a bang. Rookie Roy Helu Jr., who got the start at running back, ran around the edge for 16 yards on the first play from scrimmage. Unfortunately, Helu (10 rushes for 41 yards) would average just 2.5 yards per carry the rest of the game. Even with Ray McDonald out on the defensive front, the 49ers were not budging. Starting in his place was Ricky Jean Francois, no doubt pumped over his alma mater LSU's huge win the previous night. Two short runs and a failed pass to Terrence Austin later, the opening possession ended in a punt.
San Francisco's offense was just a little more functional in this one even though they only drove more than 40 yards once. Their first drive was stopped by a funky shift that resulted in a penalty on 3rd-and-1 from the Washington 49. Head coach Jim Harbaugh clearly felt it should not have been a penalty for inducing the defense to jump and therefore an illegal motion penalty. Nevertheless, needing to throw, Alex Smith was crunched by rookie Ryan Kerrigan for a sack.
After a quick exchange of punts, Washington mounted a bit of offense, digging its way out from their own 3-yard line to reach the 37 thanks in part to a pair of 5-yard penalties. However, John Beck (30-for-47 254 yards 1 TD, 1 INT) was picked off by Dashon Goldson. One play later, the scoreless first quarter was over.
The 49ers went to Gore three times in a row to start the drive totaling 21 yards, then went away from him and failed to muster three yards on two plays to force a long field goal. David Akers, one of the most valuable players for them this season, was good from 52 yards out to make it 3-0.
The Redskins tried to mount an answer with Jabar Gaffney (4-40) catching two passes to convert third downs. However, on the second one, Trent Williams was nailed for a totally unnecessary smack in the back of Justin Smith for a 15-yard personal foul to force a punt following a pass to Helu. Now that I mention it, passing to him was a large part of the offense. He set a team mark with 14 receptions, putting Art Monk out of the record book in the process, for 105 yards.
Following another exchange of punts, San Francisco took over at its own 45. Alex Smith scrambled for eight yards on first down and Gore (19-107) had his longest run of the game chugging down field for a gain of 27. Two runs by Kendall Hunter set up the two-minute warning for a third-and-one. Smith threw incomplete under a bit of pressure, missing a wide-open Gore in the flat. Harbaugh decided to go for it, putting Smith in the Pistol formation. However, backup tight end Justin Peelle moved prior to the snap to set up another field goal for a 6-0 lead.
For some reason, Mike Shanahan was determined to get points prior to the half, even after a false start set them back to open the drive. Two plays later, a Helu reception ended in a fumble forced by Patrick Willis and recovered by Donte Whitner. Like a bolt of lightning, the 49ers immediately called a play and executed it, hitting fullback Bruce Miller down the sideline for a 30-yard touchdown for a 13-0 lead. The Redskins did scratch their way down the field in the final minute and get into field goal range. Graham Gano set a team record with a 59-yard effort to make it 13-3 at the break.
In the second half, Washington really never had a chance to get back in the game. After an exchange of punts, San Francisco finally converted its first third down (having failed on their first six) and made it to the 21-yard line before Brian Orakpo delivered a sack to force another field goal by Akers and a 16-3 lead. Trying to answer, the Redskins battled their way into scoring range, but had to go for it on fourth down. Navorro Bowman came up with the play to end the threat and things looked grim as the game entered the final quarter.
With the defense wearing down ,it was easy to mix in some passing plays. Vernon Davis picked up 22 yards and Braylon Edwards broke tackles turning a short gain into a big play for 24 more. The drive ended with another field goal for a 19-3 lead. Bowman, who of course had a great game, recovered a fumble but the 49ers gave it right back when Vernon Davis coughed it up. However, the subsequent drive ended on downs. After forcing a punt, they finally faced a soft prevent defense. It was too little, too late even though Gaffney caught a touchdown and rookie starting wide receiver Leonard Hankerson added the conversion to make it a 19-11 game with 1:05 to play. The onside kick was recovered by Vernon Davis who drew a flag for trying to fair catch a ball that was driven into the ground.
There was not much to this game. Both defenses can play. Smith (17-for-24 200 yards, 1 TD) was amazingly efficient and did not turn it over. Washington was forced to throw, and Chris Cooley or Santana Moss, that was not going to work. Fred Davis (4-42) did not start making plays until after the outcome was decided.
Cowboys 23, Seahawks 13
Murray is the real deal. At this point, it'll be a complete shock if he has to share the workload with Felix Jones once the latter back returns from injury.
This game was tied at 6 at halftime despite the fact that Dallas was outgaining Seattle, 304-134. The Cowboys had the ball on the Seahawk 1-yard line on two occasions and mustered only three points. One instance was a first-and-goal at the 1 in which Dallas couldn't punch it in. The second was a Dez Bryant fumble.
Bryant's fumble hurt because he could have reached the end zone at the end of his long reception. He had four catches for 76 yards. Jason Witten also had four grabs (71 yards, TD). Miles Austin-Jones (2-53), meanwhile, left early with a hamstring injury.
Broncos 38, Raiders 24
By Greg Cox - @ActuallyGregCox
Denver's offense started with a bit of foreshadowing. Willis McGahee ran for two yards. Tim Tebow then ran twice for six yards to set up the punt. The pair of them would wind up being the bulk of the offense, but more on that later.
Oakland's second play of the next drive was a 38-yard completion to Jacoby Ford who bolted down the middle of the field. He fumbled at the end of the play, but tight end Marcel Reece was there for the recovery. Bush (19-96) picked up 14 yards on the next play to put the ball in the red zone. He also wrecked Brian Dawkins, but the grisly veteran would soon return to the game. The drive would stall from there, and Sebastian Janikowski hobbled on for a 48-yard field goal to make it 3-0.
Left tackle Ryan Clady had a tough game, starting with wrecking Denver's next drive with a holding penalty leading to a quick punt. Oakland punted right back though, and Tebow really made his presence known even as the crowd chanted his name followed by a word that rhymes with ducks. He faked the handoff to McGahee, a regular play on the afternoon, and ran for 32 yards. Two plays later, he hit Eric Decker over the middle for a 27-yard touchdown and 7-3 lead.
After trading punts, the Raiders got their offense in motion as the second quarter started thanks to the Broncos failing to get their punt off. Britton Colquitt wound up throwing incomplete after bumbling the snap. On third down, Palmer hit Bush who did the rest, leaping for his first career touchdown reception and the 10-7 advantage. After another Denver punt, Oakland started running Bush, three times in a row in fact, before a pass to Moore put them in plus territory. Then, they tested Champ Bailey and found out he is still an elite player. Bailey intercepted Palmer.
In the first half, Oakland's defense was holding up and forced a quick punt. The offense showed some explosion on their next possession. Ford (5-105, TD) picked up 31 yards down the sideline at the two-minute warning. Three plays later, Reece proved why he is the "matchup nightmare," making a tough catch down the middle on a well thrown ball by Palmer for a 40-yard touchdown to give Oakland a 17-7 lead.
Head coach John Fox made a regrettable call during the final drive of the half, taking points off the board when Taiwan Jones followed up jumping offsides by running into kicker Matt Prater on a successful field goal attempt. Two failed plays later, he missed a shorter attempt, and the offense came up empty. At this point, the Silver and Black were very much in control of the game, but Eddie Royal changed all that after the break.
Denver took the opening kickoff and marched right down the field with McGahee and Tebow doing all of the damage. A strike down the middle to Royal for a 26-yard touchdown capped it off, but he was not done making plays. Oakland did answer with Palmer spreading the ball around before finding Ford for a doozy of a touchdown reception to put the Raiders ahead by double digits again at 24-14. It would be their final score of the afternoon though.
Perhaps departed head coach Josh McDaniels smiled when the Broncos opened their next drive with Tebow throwing to Demaryius Thomas for a 29-yard gain. Those were two of his first-round picks. The drive ended in a field goal, but they were committed to coming right at the Oakland defense.
Palmer came out firing on the next possession, connecting with newly signed T.J. Houshmandzadeh for a gain of 28 to put Oakland in enemy territory. Three plays later, Palmer tossed his second interception when Moore tipped the errant throw in the air and Chris Harris came up with it. This was definitely a turning point because the Broncos quickly took the field and McGahee blazed down the field on the first play 60 yards for the tying touchdown. Oakland was stunned as the third quarter ended with a 24-24 tie.
After trading punts, the Raiders' offense stalled again and reliable punter Shane Lechler booted the ball past his coverage. Royal housed the return, and all of a sudden, Denver led 31-24. Palmer hit Moore twice on the next drive for 35 yards, but also had four more incompletions and the Raiders punted. After a long afternoon of trying to tackle Tebow and McGahee, the Raider defense was spent. Tebow went for 28 and McGahee picked up 17 to start what would be the clinching march. Two plays later, McGahee capped it off with a 24-yard scoring scamper and the 38-24 final margin. For good measure, Palmer (19-for-35, 335 yards, 3 TDs, 3 INTs) threw another pick to Bailey.
This was not about any magic from Tebow; just smart play-calling. He had a lackluster passing day (10-for-21, 124 yards, 2 TDs) but ran 12 times for 118 yards. McGahee had 20 rushes for 163 yards and two scores. The key stats for Tebow were no turnovers and just two sacks.
Oakland's pass rush is less vicious without Matt Shaughnessy. Obviously, the run defense is a huge problem after coming within three feet of allowing 300 yards. Denver took the fight to them and absorbed the aerial effort of Palmer in the process. As a result, the AFC West is totally up for grabs.
Bengals 24, Titans 17
Johnson played like a PFT reader early on. Javon Ringer received the first carry, but Johnson then just took the next attempt for 20 yards. He had a 21-yard reception later on the drive, which culminated in a Tennessee field goal. It appeared as though everything was back to normal, and that the Titans were perhaps going to salvage this season and perhaps become a threat to Houston.
Yeah, not so much. The first drive proved to be a fluke, because Johnson's other 13 carries went for 44 yards. He also had three other receptions for only 25 yards. CJ20 still looked tentative and sluggish whenever he had the ball.
Cardinals 19, Rams 13
What's even worse is that the team that was called for two safeties actually won the game. How does that even happen?
Bradford finished 23-of-36 for 255 yards and an interception. He showed an OK rapport with Brandon Lloyd, who hauled in five grabs for 80 yards. Lloyd drew a key pass interference at the end of regulation to set up what should have been a Josh Brown game-winning field goal. However, Calais Campbell blocked the kick, which would eventually allow Patrick Peterson to return yet another punt for a touchdown for what would be the decisive score.
And rightfully so - Skelton went 20-of-35 for 222 yards and a touchdown to Larry Fitzgerald (4-43). Skelton had trouble moving the chains throughout the afternoon, converting just 2-of-10 third downs.
Special teams were a killer. The blocked kick really hurt, and Peterson obviously did them in. Ultimately though, this was probably a good thing for the Rams, who are one loss closer to Falling Flat for Matt Kalil.
Giants 24, Patriots 20
By Charlie Campbell - @draftcampbell
New York's offensive line had a lot of issues in the first half. They had multiple holding penalties and were letting consistent pressure get to Eli Manning. He took some big hits and moved well to avoid taking sacks.
Late in the second quarter, the Patriots started moving the ball with Brady making a series of short passes. After making a beautiful catch for a 21-yard gain against cornerback Corey Webster, Wes Welker was driven into the ground by Boley. Welker stayed in the game after getting attention from the medical staff. Brady missed Aaron Hernandez running open in the end zone, which really hurt as the Patriots missed the field goal, and at halftime, the score was deadlocked at zero.
To start the third quarter, Brady threw a bad pass for an interception to Deon Grant. There was no opening as the New England signal-caller forced the ball to Rob Gronkowski. The Giants took advantage and started moving the ball. Manning had good gains to Victor Cruz and Jake Ballard. That set up a field goal for New York. On the next New England possession, Brady got hit as he reared back to throw the ball and it came loose. The sack-fumble was recovered by the Giants at the Patriots' 10-yard line. The next play saw Brandon Jacobs run up the gut into the end zone, virtually untouched.
Special teams became a liability for both teams in the second half. First, a muffed punt by Giants cornerback Aaron Ross was recovered by New England. That set up the Patriots for a field goal. A short time later, New England committed their fourth turnover when Giants linebacker Mark Herzlich forced a fumble from Julian Edelman in punt coverage. On the drive, Manning moved the ball with a couple of good passes along the sideline. The Giants got inside the 10-yard line when Manning hit Michael Clayton in the back of the end zone. His catch was tossed because he had stepped out of bounds. A few plays later, Manning threw a pass up for grabs in the end zone after throwing off his back foot. Patriots cornerback Kyle Arrington spun off of his man and made a leaping interception to negate scoring chance. It was Arrington's fifth interception of the season.
Brady answered with a big 27-yard toss to Welker in the middle of zone coverage. They hooked up again for 28 yards to get inside the 20. Brady finished the drive with a touchdown strike to Hernandez. He caught the ball short of the end zone and made a few defenders miss before charging in for the game-tying score. Brady led another a field goal drive to take a 13-10 lead in the fourth quarter.
The Giants came up with a big answer. Manning made a few good throws to move the ball down the field. He was aided by a 35-yard pass interference penalty on Arrington. On 3rd-and-5, Manning made a perfect throw to Mario Manningham, who got by Arrington running through the end zone. The 10-yard score gave the Giants a 17-13 lead. A penalty on Manningham after the play helped give the Patriots good field position.
Brady got to work with a good pass to Deion Branch, and then a 19-yard pass to Gronkowski brought it to the Giants' 15 yard-line. A few plays later, and Brady had a 4th-and-8 at the Giants' 14-yard line. He threw a strike to Gronkowski in the front of the end zone for the lead.
To start the game-winning drive, Manning got a huge gain to Ballard. Manning tossed a ball down the seam, and Ballard made a leaping catch for 28 yards. Manning then scrambled for 12 yards. On the next play, he threw incomplete for Victor Cruz in the end zone but pass interference was called. That put the ball on the Patriot's 1-yard line. Manning threw incomplete for Ballard. Jacobs got stuffed on the next play. On third-and-goal, with 19 seconds remaining, Manning threw a touchdown pass to Ballard running an out route in the end zone. That completed New York's massive road win and saw the Giants improve to 6-2 on the season.
For the night, Manning was 20-of-39 for 250 yards with two touchdowns and an interception. Jacobs ran for 72 yards on 18 carries, while Cruz led the Giants in receiving with six receptions for 91 yards. Ballard caught four passes for 67 yards and a touchdown.
Brady completed 28-of-49 passes for 342 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions. The Giants had a good rush, but Brady missed some open receivers whom he normally hits. Brady seemed off against New York. Welker led New England in receiving with nine receptions for 136 yards. Gronkowski had eight grabs for 101 yards and one touchdown.
Packers 45, Chargers 38
Rodgers is amazing. Some of the throws he made in this game were just breath-taking. He threaded some passes into some really tight windows, and I don't know how he continues to complete those back-shoulder throws. It's like he's some sort of robot who can place any ball wherever he wants. And like any robot, Rodgers can also scramble; he rushed for 52 yards on eight scrambles.
Passing-wise, Rodgers finished 21-of-26 for 247 yards and four touchdowns. All of his scores went to different targets: Greg Jennings (6-46), Jordy Nelson (5-105), Jermichael Finley (5-44) and James Jones (1-21).
Rivers would finish 26-of-46 for 385 yards, four touchdowns and three interceptions. He led some impressive scoring drives, but those turnovers proved to be costly.
Ravens 23, Steelers 20
What's even more amazing is that Flacco's receivers tried their best to lose this game for him. Torrey Smith dropped what would have been a 38-yard touchdown on that final drive. Anquan Boldin then bobbled a pass that would have set up a first-and-goal with 15 seconds remaining. Smith redeemed himself, however, hauling in a 26-yard score with less than 10 seconds on the clock.
Flacco went 28-of-47 for 300 yards and that score. His most impressive number was 14-of-21 - as in Baltimore's third-down conversions. It's amazing how different he looked compared to the inept quarterback who couldn't complete any passes two weeks ago against Jacksonville on a Monday night.
Against the Ravens:
- Smith's hold to negate an 80-yard Rice touchdown on the opening play was completely bogus. Cris Collinsworth nearly had an aneurysm yelling about it.
- Rice ran into the end zone in the first quarter, but the play was blown dead extremely early.
- Smith was held a bit later, which prevented a long reception. The hold wasn't called.
Against the Steelers:
- Brown was interfered with in the end zone, but no penalty was called.
- Ike Taylor was whistled for a questionable pass interference in the third quarter that would later give Rice a short touchdown.
- Max Starks' bogus hold wiped out a nice Rashard Mendenhall scamper later on.
General ineptness:
When Smith scored the decisive touchdown, there was also a pass interference penalty. Coleman apparently thought the Ravens would wipe the score off the board because he announced: "Pass interference on the defense. The ball will be placed on the spot of the foul."
Because that game-winning score wasn't exciting enough.
For thoughts on Bears-Eagles, check out my updated 2011 NFL Power Rankings, which will be posted Tuesday morning.
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Antonin Scalia, just a few days ago:
In a speech to lawyers gathered June 21 in Asheville, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia decried judicial activism.
That was to the North Carolina Bar Association on Friday. But today, Scalia and his colleagues struck down a law enacted by a 98-0 vote in the usually fractious Senate. Commonweal's editors predicted this "clear judicial activism" in their March 5 editorial. Now perhaps Commonweal's own legal experts can weigh in: Is Shelby County v. Holder the most "activist" Supreme Court decision of all time?
Let's see what the Senate's leader was saying about the Voting Rights Act all the way back in 2006:
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) called the vote a major success. "The Voting Rights Act has worked," he said. "We need to build upon that progress by extending expiring provisions."
Indeed, the Voting Rights Act has, on the whole, worked -- a fact demonstrated clearly by the ruling itself. Has it worked so well that it is no longer needed? This is unthinkable, as demonstrated by the long litany of abuses in Ginsburg's dissent, many of them from the 2000's. This is not even to mention more recent attempts to suppress voter turnout, as discussed in this 2012 Commonweal editorial.
Recall that during oral arguments, Scalia referred to the Voting Rights Act as the "perpetuation of racial entitlement." That inaccurate and offensive remark was likely to be forgotten over time, but with today's ruling, it will probably become the most memorable and quoted line of Scalia's career.
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Scalia's offhand reference to the "perpetuation of racial entitlement" was another startling reminder of why the VRA is necessary. The federal government goes to great lengths to ensure equal representation not as a generous gift to racial minorities, but because the right of all to vote and be counted is fundamental to our political system.
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I think this decision will provide Democrats with a good opportunity to go on the offensive with the composition of the SCt.
We will see what happens on Thursday.
Perhaps most remarkable about this decision, given Scalia's originalism and his understanding that the courts should defer to the judgments of the people expressed through the legislative branch, is that we have in the VRA a statute re-authorized several times, most recently by a near-unanimous legislative branch only seven years ago. How an originalist who believes in the political branches of government and the primary authority of the people can say that the assumptions of section 5 no longer can apply is...puzzling.
From today's report in the NY Times:
The majority held that the coverage formula in Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, originally passed in 1965 and most recently updated by Congress in 1975, was unconstitutional. The section determines which states must receive preclearance from the Justice Department or a federal court in Washington before they make minor changes to voting procedures, like relocating a polling place, or major ones, like redrawing electoral districts.
John Neiman, an attorney who submitted an amicus curiae brief on behalf of Shelby County is quoted as saying:
All nine justices agreed in a 2009 case that the coverage formula had serious constitutional issues. The coverage formula is exceedingly difficult to justify as a matter of logic. I had hoped that more justices would agree to strike down the coverage formula, and to leave it to Congress to fix the problem if it so desired.
Does anyone know why Congress did not use a more up-to-date formula when they renewed the Act in 2006?
Does anyone know why Congress did not use a more up-to-date formula when they renewed the Act in 2006?
Lazy. Its just easier to keep renewing the same law rather than actually holding hearings and deciding what actually makes sense now.
And this post seriously mischaracterizies this issue. The real issue is that Congress failed to uphold its responsibility. The act itself is not unconstitutional; its that Congress failed to update it for changing conditions. Voting patterns have changed dramatically since 1975 which means the law should have changed. And in 2009 the Democratic party controlled both the House and the Senate so they certainly could have passed any update they wanted once the Supreme Court put them on notice. Lazy and irresponsible.
Bruce, what do you mean "once the Supreme Court put them on notice"? The Voting Rights Act was renewed in 2006 for 25 years by Congress and signed into law by President Bush. The Senate vote was unanimous; well over 90% of the House voted in favor as well. At the time, Republicans controlled both houses of Congress.
Here is the complete text of the 15th amendment to the US constitution:
"Section 1. 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.
Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."
The Court's majority yesterday did not (so far as I know, I'd be happy to be prove wrong) cite what provision of the Constitution the Voting Rights Act violated, contenting itself with stating it violated the "letter and spirit of the Constitution".
So we have a case in which the Constitution gives explicit and unrestricted power to Congress to pass "appropriate legislation" to enforce a constitutional right, the Congress by near-unanimous vote exercises its power, and the Court's majority overturns the law. Can we agree that so-called "originalists" have lost all credibility when they decry "judicial activism"?
The constitutional objection is on the grounds of equal sovereignty, i.e. that the federal government should not impose an unequal burden on state governments because all states are equally sovereign. Still, I cannot elude the feeling that the changes in voting patterns provide only a convenient opportunity to strike down a law the majority might have liked to have struck down (and those who agree with them would've struck down) in 1966. The real objection is to any federal limitation of state sovereignty at all, and the presence of remarkable mountains of evidence of discrimination in the pending Texas case and other places seems not to move the majority much. This isn't a decision about voting or race so much as it is one driven by the oldest argument in American politics--state power vs. national power. (And like many of the times we've had that argument, the implications are charged with potential harm for minorities.) One reads the decision, its data-heavy demonstration of how voting patterns have changed, and one seems meant to feel the warm satisfaction of living in a post-racial society. The justices know that's not true as well as we do, but that's not the point. The goal was to limit the power of the federal government, and they have succeeded.
As for why the formula was not updated in 2006? I don't know that "lazy" really gets it. More like inertia. To tinker with the formula and crawl into the tall weeds of these issues offers members of Congress no win--especially because the appearace (to my eye) is not that the geographical loci of descrimination really have moved or changed so much as that the discrimination in those places has grown subtler, harder to quantify. Most probably the same disincentives that prevented congressional action in 2006 will continue to promote the same inertia now that the Court has forced the question. And that means that the majority has effectively struck down the VRA without actually striking it down. We'll all blame Congress, call them lazy, but there will be no more section 5 enforcements.
Last point. Does anybody remember Roberts's confirmation hearing where he talked about how important it would be to work for larger majorities on major cases, and how undesirable it is to make far-reaching changes to the law by 5-4 margins? Or do I remember that incorrectly?
Here is Justice Black in South Carolina v. Katzenbach (1966):
I cannot help but believe that the inevitable effect of any such law which forces any one of the States to entreat federal authorities in far-away places for approval of local laws before they can become effective is to create the impression that the State or States treated in this way are little more than conquered provinces. And if one law concerning voting can make the States plead for this approval by a distant federal court or the United States Attorney General, other laws on different subjects can force the States to seek the advance approval not only of the Attorney General, but of the President himself, or any other chosen members of his staff. It is inconceivable to me that such a radical degradation of state power was intended in any of the provisions of our Constitution or its Amendments.
Notice first that Black's fears of further laws encroaching on state sovereignty or powers over states being granted to faceless bureaucrats in the Executive Office of the President have not come to pass...despite fears that persist today that such 'tyrannical' excesses lurk around every corner of a federal building. But finally, the real logic of Shelby County is the same as Katzenbach: we cannot treat states unequally--no matter how much historical evidence or current practice demands that we recognize state and local behaviors that demand some federal remedy.
Steve Benen asks on what grounds the court found the struck section of the VRA unconstitutional. Oddly, Roberts's opinion doesn't say. Not so oddly, Roberts also neglected to mention the 15th amendment, which (as noted by Luke Hill, and in the editorial Michael Peppard links to) is the one that explicitly spells out Congress's right and responsibility to pass laws like the VRA. I don't see any way around the conclusion that Benen (and we) reached: "The justices decided to substitute their judgment for the people's and their elected lawmakers, because they felt like it."
It seems to me conservatives should be alarmed by the court's decision to vacate an action of the legislative branch, even if they happen to dislike the specific law that the Court delegitimized. Unelected elites overturning the work of the elected representatives of the people, in direct contradiction of the Constitution, strikes me as the sort of thing conservatives tend to protest. And if the Roberts court were inclined to look to precedent as part of its usual process, this decision would set a very bad one.
I'd respectfully disagree that "this isn't a decision about voting or race so much as it is...(about) state power vs. national power". The old argument that the Civil War was about "states' rights" is pretty well disproven by now (not least by the writings of the secessionists). It was about slavery and white power. It's hard not to see this decision as the latest episode in that long struggle.
The Voting Rights Act was renewed in 2006 for 25 years by Congress and signed into law by President Bush. The Senate vote was unanimous; well over 90% of the House voted in favor as well. At the time, Republicans controlled both houses of Congress.
This is one of Michael Peppard's points as well. My question is: is a provision's Constitutionality a function of the majority by which it is passed? Had it passed the Senate 51-49, and the House 218-217, would that be an indication to the Court that the provision was of dubious Consitutionality?
The PATRIOT Act also passed by significant majorities of both houses, including 98-1 in the Senate. The Defense of Marriage Act passed by overwhelming majorities in both houses, including 85-14 in the Senate. By the logic being put forth here, should the Court even agree to consider challenges to those laws?
I'm told that New York City was one of the areas that required Federal permission to change its voting laws under the Voting Rights Act. There are many New Yorkers who post and comment here. In your opinion, now that the provision is overturned, is New York particularly vulnerable to systematic racial discrimination against African Americans? Now that Mayor Bloomberg's hands no longer are tied, should we look for him to enact sweeping reforms that will disenfranchise black voters in New York?
Roberts also neglected to mention the 15th amendment, which (as noted by Luke Hill, and in the editorial Michael Peppard links to) is the one that explicitly spells out Congress's right and responsibility to pass laws like the VRA.
The 15th amendment is still in effect, and Congress is still (sort of) operating. Except for this single provision that was struck down, the Voting Rights Act remains in force. President Obama has already vowed to pass replacement legislation, presumably that would take into account the Court's ruling and avoid what is Constitutionally objectionable. Also, I don't know of any reason that individual states that were subject to the now-voided provision can't enact their own laws and regulations to ensure voting fairness. And with the publicity that this decision has engendered (except in Chicago, where nothing but the Blackhawks and the Stanley Cup is considered worthy of newscasts and front pages), the wind should be at the backs of those who want to replace the provision in question.
Sorry, meant to add to my previous comment: the political optics that led to the virtually unanimous extension of the VRA in 2006 haven't changed. While there is no percentage in supposing that Congress has hit bottom in its ability to be dysfunctional, I would guess that even House Republicans don't want to go on record as obstructing anything that smells like it would disenfranchise non-white voters. There is a presidential election in 2016, and Republicans have failed for two presidential elections to muster enough white voters to get anywhere near the summit, much less over the hump.
And today, says Justice Scalia, the Court's rulings on DOMA and Prop 8 "both spring from the same diseased root: an exalted notion of the role of this court in American democratic society."
And, yes. It's been fewer than 24 hours since announcing his vote to nullify a flawed though not unjustifiable standard adopted by the legislative branch with near unanimity only seven years ago.
We want what we want, after all.
Shame on the Catholics on the bench and the Catholics who justify it. Striking down the Voting Rights Act and Affirmative action in the same week! These are empire Catholics who exult in building 200 million dollar cathedral while cooly neglecting the disenfranchised. It is judicial activism. I am not sure how it will stimulate the Democrats. But it will surely galvanize minorities. I think it will help the Dems in the midterm elections. At any rate it removes all semblances of good will of the Catholics on the court. Shame on them. Wonder what Ted Hesburgh thinks about these Scotus Catholics.
To pick up on Steven M.'s observation, here's how Charles Pierce prefaces his views on the day-to-day statements of Antonin Scalia: "I'd be remiss if, in light of yesterday's day of jubilee regarding the Voting Rights Act, I didn't point out what an incredible passel of Janus-faced thooleramawns the Supreme Court's conservative faction is."
My two cents on the matter. Scalia is a lawyer not a justice. A legal fundamentalist. If there is, as he seems to believe, something divine in the law it was in the motives that led to its creation of some of its particulars.. As to the particulars of its implementations, that's another matter altogether.
Would it really have been so damaging, so irresponsible, to have passed on this one by merely suggesting the Congress reconsider its methods of identifying areas of our nation requiring the attention demanded by the VRA and, in the mean time, leave it be? Nope.
My thanks to Dominic for passing along the reference to thoolamawn. It joins bacciagalupe among my favorite ethnically-specific putdowns, the very spice of life in the remnant of Catholic immigrant culture.
This was a really odd argument for a group that claims to believe that the courts should defer to the legislature whenever possible. The court in essense said we don't much care what the Congress did. We are making a judgement that its standard should be changed based on our personal views. Judicial activism at its worst.
This wasn't a case of legal fundamentalism. This was a case of the judiciary substituting its judgement for that of the legislature, which is the very opposite of legal fundamentalism. Justice Scalia and his little me toos, Justices Thomas and the Alito, are effectively conservative political activist who with no coherent judicial philosophy. They have demonstrated this in any number of cases where deference to legislature, a fundamental position of conservative legal pricipal, or any number of other pricipals have been tossed aside in order to support concservative political causes.
The ULTIMATE issue is whether or not people's voting rights in those areas are being respected.
The IMMEDIATE issue is whether or not the data on which government action is to be based is in fact current data, that is, data which reflects the facts today.
The Court has not thrown out the VRA, it has only demanded current data in order to implement the that crucial section of the law.
Until we actually have facts and figures to tell us (both Congress and the Court) whether or not the facts have or have not changed, we can't really say whether the Court's decision regarding those facts is right or wrong, It thinks times have changed enough to require a change in the law. Maybe it's right, and maybe it's wrong. It's up to Congress to look and see.
This time I'm with the Court. Surely at least Manhattan should have been taken off the list, as Jim P. has noted.
A perfect example of this position is Scalia's disent in the DOMA case. Here is his comment:
"We have no power to decide this case. And even if we did, we have no power under the Constitution to invalidate this democratically adopted legislation."
Yet not 24 hours earlier the court in the voting rights act did exactly that and Scalia was among those who had no reservations about substituting his judgement on what standards a state should meet to be included under the act for those included in "democratically adopted legislation." He is a conservative political activist masquerading as a justice.
@Jim Pauwels (6/26, 8:20 am) To answer your first question, a law's constitutionality is not a function of the majority by which it is passed. I was merely pointing out to Bruce the strong degree of Republican support when it was renewed in 2006.
@Ann Olivier,
It really isn't the role of the court to decide what data one should use in establishing a standard. That puts the court in a role that goes way beyond its proper function. And I'm a supporter of a relatively activist court. Using the Roberts logic, the court should or could get into really detailed decisions for which it is ill equipt. It is as if what it did was to say "We agree that you have the right to set the speed limit, but we think it ought to be 75, not 65 because we've heard that cars and highways ar better built these days."
this was a case where they knew on the law they couldn't justify their decision so they went and threw out the details.
JIm D. --
True, it isn't the function of the Court to establish the data -- that's why it told Congress to revise the data in 2009 but Congress didn't do its duty, as usual. Yes, there should be blame -- and Congress should get it.
@Ann Olivier (6/26, 5:19 pm) But what makes the data set a matter of constitutionality when it comes to Congress carrying out its designated power under the 15th amendment? Upon which provision of the Constitution is the majority relying?
@Jim Pauwels (6/26, 8:28 am) - I can't speak for NYC. I can say that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts was successfully sued by civil rights organizations for the redistricting plan adopted after the 2000 census. (In a related matter, the House Speaker ended up in prison.)
UPDATE: Also very much worth noting is this excerpt from Justice Ginsburg's dissent: "The VRA permits a jurisdiction to bail out by showing that it has complied with the Act for ten years, and has engaged in efforts to eliminate intimidation and harassment of voters. 42 U. S. C. §1973b(a) (2006 ed. and Supp. V). It also authorizes a court to subject a noncovered jurisdiction to federal preclearance upon finding that violations of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments have occurred there. §1973a(c) (2006 ed.)."
In other words, "A jurisdiction included under Section 4 could take steps to get removed from preclearance requirements under Section 5. And a jurisdiction not included under Section 4 could be placed there if they demonstrated a pattern of systemic racial discrimination."
@Jim Pauwels (6/26, 8:38 am) Actually, with Section 4 struck down, section 5 cannot function---which was the goal of the plaintiffs and their backers.
True, in theory there's no "reason that individual states that were subject to the now-voided provision can't enact their own laws and regulations to ensure voting fairness".
However, in the real world in which we live, leaders of the governing party in several of the "individual states that were subject to the now-voided provision" have made clear that they intend to move forward with laws and regulations that will ensure voting unfairness, discriminating against the poor, the young, and the non-white.
UPDATE: According to this AP story, Republican officials in Texas, North Carolina and Mississippi are moving forward with plans to restrict voting.
Doubling back to the "state sovereignty" argument, ponder this: if Roberts, Scalia, Alito and Thomas care so much about protecting state powers from encroachment by the federal government, then why did they dissent from Kennedy's opinion in today's DOMA case---a classic case of "states' rights"?
In reply to Ann, here is George Will today:
Progressives resent progress when it renders anachronistic once-valid reasons for enlarging the federal government's supervisory and coercive powers. Hence they regret Tuesday's Supreme Court rulingthat progress has rendered Section 4 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act unconstitutional.
His reply is typical of conservative opinion here, and notice the importance of the "Hence." The role of voter supression and discrimination is absent from his consideration of the problem
Justice Jackson can guide us when we're setting our constitutional priorities. He quipped that the Constitution was never intended to be a suicide pact. A decision to uphold the Constitution can't be repugnant to the purposes of the Constitution. It might be ideal, yes, were Manhattan and other jurisdiction removed to reflect the state of things. Congress should do that. But it wasn't Manhattan that filed suit. Indeed, those jurisdictions haven't complained. The complaint came from Alabama where, perhaps, we'll agree that voter supression and discrimination continues...and, will continue unchecked now in light of what the Court has done.
What, in fairness, you call a reasonable and right decision (and which is, in its way, reasonable and right) will empower voter supression and discrimination, the very opposite of what the 15th Amendment intends. So I don't think the question is whether the formula should have been updated. Ideally, it should have. But practically, the Court has empowered voter supression and discrimination in the name of upholding a constitutional standard. That's a perverse mis-ordering of constitutional priorities.
Communities that will have 4-6 hour lines to vote will pay a big price and the SC could care less. MSNBC showed one Florida juristriction that had a polling place for 6000 voters and another for 68,000 ..
The SC will announce like some other un-skilled dolts.. "that's not our job'
"Hubris is a fit word for today's demolition of the V.R.A
Justice Ruth Ginsburg
I am convinced beyond debate we severly limit our ability to understand the often complete lack of reasonable political maneuvering in our nation when we accept as valid a label a person gives themselves without useful consideration of its validity. So many of those who label themselves conservatives are no such thing. To believe they are requires we believe conservatism does not merely tolerant the destructive aspects of ignorance it does in fact enshrine it. That we tolerate lunacy can be a fine thing. We all need a vacation from reality from time to time. That we demand it of our leaders is another matter.
BTW, if it is indeed true that Scalia's train of thought when expressing his opinions of the DOMA decision allowed him to find appropriate his dragging the phrase "homosexual sodomy" into the public arena....well....my goodness but the boy is a bit over the edge, fancy robe and all.
Nobody is denying that the section needs to be restored -- but Chief Justice Roberts insists that a restoration be done on the basis of current facts as they are determined by the Congress, which is, according to the Constitution, Art. 15, the body resposible for protecting the rights at issue.
It's time we voters take responsibility for the do-nothing Congresses that we've been electing.
Ed G.=
Is it the job of the SC to write the laws governing voting processes? Or do you think that it makes no difference which arm of the government gets a job done? That way would also lead to executives (Presidents) deciding what shall be done, not Congress.
@Ann Olivier (6/26, 11:04 pm) According to Justice Ginsburg in her dissent, "Congress may have been charged with rigidity had it afforded covered jurisdictions no way out or ignored jurisdictions that needed superintendence. Congress, however, responded to this concern. Critical components of the congressional design are the statutory provisions allowing jurisdictions to "bail out" of preclearance, and for court-ordered "bail ins." See Northwest Austin, 557 U. S., at 199. The VRA permits a jurisdiction to bail out by showing that it has complied with the Act for ten years, and has engaged in efforts to eliminate intimidation and harassment of voters. 42 U. S. C. §1973b(a) (2006 ed. and Supp. V). It also authorizes a court to subject a noncovered jurisdiction to federal preclearance upon finding that violations of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments have occurred there. §1973a(c) (2006 ed.)."
So Congress created mechanisms for "pre-clearance" jurisdictions to remove themselves from the requirement for pre-clearance, and for other jurisdictions to be subjected to pre-clearance.
How is that not an example of writing law "on the basis of current facts" (regardless of whether there might be other ways of accomplishing the same end)?
And what provision of the Constitution does Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act violate? (I've yet to find a citation.)
Re Scalia's use of the words "homosexual sodomy"
Not only inapprorpriate but a cheap shot.
Scalia has 9 children and over three times that many grandchildren (last I read, 28). Suppose one of that clan is gay. It's possible. And supposing that member of his clan finds a life partner and wants to marry.
Hmm... will he continue his rant about "homosexual sodomy?"
However, in the real world in which we live, leaders of the governing party in several of the "individual states that were subject to the now-voided provision" have made clear that they intend to move forward with laws and regulations that will ensure voting unfairness, discriminating against the poor, the young, and the non-white.
In the link you provided, I didn't see any reference to laws and regulations that will ensure voting unfairness, discriminating against the poor, the young and the non-white. I did see that a handful of states that are in various stages of enacting voter-ID laws, now no longer being burdened with getting clearance from the Obama Administration's Justice Department, are now proceeding with those initiatives.
The state that made news reports that I've heard in the last couple of days in this regard is Texas. Following the link you provided, I learned that Texas residents, in order to vote, will need to present an ID card. A driver's license serves this purpose; for those who don't have one, the ID card is free and is obtainable wherever drivers licenses are obtainable. To obtain one, a Texan needs to demonstrate citizenship which, for anyone born in the US, means producing a birth certificate. Is it your understanding that the poor, the young and the non-white are not issued birth certificates? That hasn't been my observation. I happen to have one kicking around the house already because I've needed it in the past to obtain other things required to get on with my life - in my case, I think it was a marriage license and a passport. I don't remember how I got it, but it wasn't particularly burdensome.
Texans also have to prove state residency. The link you provided doesn't specify how to establish residency in Texas, but I've had to do it here in Illinois for various purposes, such as getting a municipal sticker for the car, and obtaining a driver's license. Utility bills with my family's name and place of residence usually suffice in Illlinois, including for the poor, the young and the non-white, but there are many other ways to do it, too.
I note, too, that according to Slate Magazine, there are something in excess of 1.6 million illegal immigrants in Texas. Given that reality, it doesn't seem outrageous to me that proof of citizenship and residence be confirmed at the polling place. The population of illegal immigrants in Texas approaches 7% of the state's total population, and of course, many, many elections are decided by margins smaller than that.
All of the above is based on a couple of minutes' surfing on the web. Possibly there are concerns with the Texas requirement that didn't surface in my brief research. If that is the case, we're told that, despite this Supreme Court decision, a variety of other legal remedies (to say nothing of legislative remedies) are still available to those who advocate for voter fairness. But we already know this to be true, because we know at least two states, Ohio and Pennsylvania, that were not burdened with the VRA preclearance provision during the 2012 election season, but who nonetheless had problematic voter ID laws struck down by the courts.
What is so inappropriate about the words 'homosexual sodomy'. Sodomy is defined in Websters as 'oral or anal copulation with a member of the same or opposite sex'. Sodomy describes a physical act with humans actually perform; it is truthful. Homosexual is defined in Websters as 'of, relating to, or characterized by a tendency to direct sexual desire toward another of the same sex'. No problem with this word either. So Scalia's use of the words 'homosexual sodomy' accurately descibes a human activity and it describes it truthfully. So what's 'inappropriate [and] a cheap shot?
Maybe its an implied opprobrium against such human activity especially when that involves a 'loving couple'. Surely a God who is Love would not contenance such opprobrium. But God is also Truth. And the truth about the human sexual faculty is that it can only achieve its most astounding intended purpose, conception of a child, when only a male and a female are involved. A truthful and loving God cannot countenace sexual contact between a sex organ and a mouth or anus or any other non-sex-organ body part, else He becomes untruthful and hence not God. He cannot be loving and untruthful. Or perhaps He is just cruel, designing a world where it is impossible for humans to the ascertain right conduct of His truth. But in that case as well, He cannot be the God - Father, Son and Holy Spirit - which the Catholic church teaches. Love is not that God's only quality.
Maybe you are referring to my use of the word appropriate with respect to Scalia's comment about homosexual sodomy.
It is my belief that Scalia in his usual way was trying to get attention by making comments that are outlandish and quotable.
He thinks that he is funny and clever. To me he is a boor.
Luke H. --
Thanks. I didn't realize that Congress had already in the last version of the law made provision for changing the status of particular counties and states. You're the only one I've read who has made that point. Odd, though, that the minority view didn't make that point -- or did it?
As for last version of Section 4 violating the Constitution, if the majority of the justices assumed that there was no provision to change the status of offending state jurisdictions, then that would be a clear violation not of Amend. 15 (which is concerned with the rights of individuals to vote) but it would be a matter of violating the right of non-national jurisdictions to not-be-burdened with the requirements of Section 4. I have no idea which article or amendment that right to not-be-burdened would violate. But that point is moot if Section 4 still allows action to be taken to correct any unfair implementing of the voting rights.
Oops - - Justice Ginsberg did make that point. No wonder she's so angry.
@Jim Pauwels (6/27, 10:01 am) Thanks for the response. Quoting from the federal court ruling last summer that blocked Texas' voter ID law: ""The State of Texas enacted a voter ID law that — at least to our knowledge — is the most stringent in the country. That law will almost certainly have retrogressive effect: it imposes strict, unforgiving burdens on the poor, and racial minorities in Texas are disproportionately likely to live in poverty. And crucially, the Texas legislature defeated several amendments that could have made this a far closer case."
This quote is not from the court's ruling, but from the linked news story, "One set of data provided by the state showed Hispanics were 46.5 percent more likely to lack a state-issued form of photo identification, while another showed Hispanics were 120 percent more likely to lack that type of ID."
I find the following statement from your comment illuminating: "Is it your understanding that the poor, the young and the non-white are not issued birth certificates? That hasn't been my observation. I happen to have one kicking around the house already because I've needed it in the past to obtain other things required to get on with my life - in my case, I think it was a marriage license and a passport."
First, my understanding---like yours---is that everyone gets issued a birth certificate. You have a copy of yours because you needed one to get "a marriage license and a passport". Young adults---particularly low-income young adults---very often have never needed to get a marriage license or a passport, because they've not been married and they've not travelled to other countries.
In-person voter fraud is virtually nonexistent in Texas, and in every other state in the union. The wave of voting restrictions introduced in recent years have two things in common: 1) they're all aimed at creating an electorate that is older, whiter and wealthier than the citizenry at large; and 2) they're all proposed by Republicans---the party that has made a conscious decision over the past two generations to leave behind its pro-civil rights tradition in order to appeal to the racial and ethnic resentments of a sizable bloc of white voters.
I'll ask you, as I've asked others in this thread: what provision of the Constitution---according to Justice Roberts---did section 4 of the Voting Rights Act violate? Because, from everything I've read so far, his decision never makes that clear.
@Ann Olivier (6/27, 12:33 pm) Thanks for your reply. Actually, the minority did make that point. Above I quoted directly from Justice Ginsburg's dissenting opinion where she makes precisely that point. Apparently the majority either misread the statute or ignored that section of it.
I'm not sure what you mean by the "right to not-be-burdened". It seems fairly clear from the history of the 15th amendment, that its framers quite consciously wrote it so as to remove voting rights from the power of the "several states" and lodge it firmly with the federal government, specifically by giving Congress the power to enforce those rights.
Luke --
By the right not-to-be-burdened I was just referring to the right of a jurisdiction not to be burdened with irrelevant laws. For instance, if a county in up-state new York were covered by Section 4 even though it had no voter registration problems, that would violate its right not-to-be-burdened by the law.
Ann, thanks for clarifying. As I think you indicated, and as Ginsbrug wrote in her opinion, Congress seems to have written the Voting Rights Act to accommodate that situation. If a jurisdiction had no recent history of discriminatory voting laws or practices, then it's not subject to pre-clearance. If a jurisdiction starts adopting discriminatory laws or practices, then it is.
I note, too, that according to Slate Magazine, there are something in excess of 1.6 million illegal immigrants in Texas. Given that reality, it doesn't seem outrageous to me that proof of citizenship and residence be confirmed at the polling place. The population of illegal immigrants in Texas approaches 7% of the state's total population, and of course, many, many elections are decided by margins smaller than that.
Jim Pauwels (6/27, 10:01 am)
That's a strong argument if one assumes that the 1.6 million illegal immigrants, who have good reason not to draw attention to themselves, are going to vote fraudulently at far higher rates than Texas citizens vote legitimately.
Closer to reality, I suspect, is this state-by-state map of known voter fraud cases since 2000.
Texans have cast tens of millions of votes since 2000, and 37 of them are known to be fraudulent. The probability that fraud falsified any election result is exceedingly small, although still larger than the chance that voter fraud prevention is the true motivation for voter ID laws.
I don't remember how I got [a birth certificate], but it wasn't particularly burdensome.
I think you might agree that it is hazardous to generalize from one's own case to that of millions of other people whose circumstances are known to be different. We who have a computer and the leisure and inclination to post comments on this blog may be better able to overleap small administrative hurdles than those whose waking hours must be devoted almost entirely to feeding their families and keeping them sheltered, that is, poor people.
" A truthful and loving God cannot countenace sexual contact between a sex organ and a mouth or anus or any other non-sex-organ body part, else He becomes untruthful and hence not God."
BruceTraditional Catholic moral theologians allow oral and anal sex as long as the semen ends up in the vagina. Yyour conclusions contradict both conservative and moral theologians.


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