{"id":36958,"date":"2013-06-26T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36958"},"modified":"2013-06-26T07:44:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T12:44:15","slug":"legal-chum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36958","title":{"rendered":"Legal Chum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What to say about the SCOTUS striking down parts of the Voting Rights Act?<\/p>\n<p>The Act was intended to add federal oversight to elections in states with long-standing patterns of discrimination in voting, and gross disparities in turnout.<\/p>\n<p>In 1960, about 70% of whites in Mississippi voted compared to under 7% of blacks. \u00a0The most recent figures show blacks in Mississippi have\u00a0<em>higher\u00a0<\/em>turnout than whites.<\/p>\n<p>Is it time for the feds to give the states back what is under the Constitution their sovereign right, subject to further litigation in cases where actual discrimination\u00a0<em>does<\/em>\u00a0still exist? \u00a0Well, so says the SCOTUS.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the left is playing this as &#8220;Voting Rights for Blacks Gutted!&#8221;, which is disingenuous at the very least, but it&#8217;s what they need to do to get ready for what will no doubt be a tough election for Democrats in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps its time for the Feds to look at elections in Minnesota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What to say about the SCOTUS striking down parts of the Voting Rights Act? The Act was intended to add federal oversight to elections in states with long-standing patterns of discrimination in voting, and gross disparities in turnout. In 1960, about 70% of whites in Mississippi voted compared to under 7% of blacks. \u00a0The most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36959,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36958\/revisions\/36959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}