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[telemann.livejournal.com]

Several news reports described a collective gasp in the court when Justice Scalia made his statement. Rachel Maddow's coverage (she was in the court for the oral arguments) and shows a clip from President Johnson's speech proposing the Voting Rights Act. In that speech, Johnson cited specific examples of voter repression, some of which should sound familiar since they're STILL occurring.

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[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

I don't think readers in this community properly appreciate your contributions as Conservative Iron Shiek. If there's an outrageous conservative position to be taken, you take it and argue it to death and beyond.

It takes a special mindset to declare an act designed to prevent discriminatory voting practices as a law "designed to benefit the minority".

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

I don't see what's especially outrageous about opposing race-based legislation.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Well of course not. Just you don't see the existence of a "rape culture."

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Being reality based has its benefits.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Reading about it doesn't count.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

Only when it's about rape culture, right?

[telemann.livejournal.com]

I dunno, is it?

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

How about poll taxes? Literacy tests?