Just So We’re Clear On This

On Tuesday, lefties squealed like stuck cats that the SCOTUS were a bunch of racist fascists for repealing the parts of the Voting Rights Act that said that the states of the Old South – in many of whom blacks have better election turnout than whites – should forever be judged by their pre-1960 election records.  States Rights were a bad thing!

Yesterday, the same precise lefties danced in the streets due to the SCOTUS’ getting the feds out of the way of states rights. 

Just making sure we all follow this.

3 thoughts on “Just So We’re Clear On This

  1. Mitch I’m still confused about one thing:

    The US Supreme Court said that if you voted no on proposition 8 that you could have a lawyer walk into a federal court room (not bothering to have it thrown out right there because of the tenth amendment) while if I voted yes on proposition 8 I couldn’t have a lawyer walk into the federal court room and defend my vote.

    The big argument by gay marriage folks is that because of the 14th amendment which calls for equal treatment under the law why are they celebrating the US Supreme Court not giving equal treatment under the law.

    Walter Hanson
    Minneapolis, MN

  2. Walter, that’s a great question. It’s because if you’re missing out on benefits because you can’t marry your romantic partner, you do have standing in the courts. However, if it’s your wife and kids who will suffer as the focus of family law shifts from protecting the vulnerable to romance, then you don’t have standing in the courts, even though the stakes are far greater.

    Make (non) sense?

    Or maybe if you’re challenging an unpopular law, you have standing, but if you’re supporting it, you don’t? Or maybe you don’t have standing in the case you have corrupt governors who don’t do their duty to defend the law, or maybe in this case you don’t have standing because two corrupt judges failed to acknowledge their conflict of interst and recuse themselves, or…..

  3. Walter understands the issue. DOMA is one thing — the abdication of the California state government over Prop 8, and the Supreme Court letting them get by with it, is really dangerous. When governments get to choose which laws they enforce, you are no longer living under the rule of law.

    As an added bonus, I expect that the lawsuit that seeks to declare Prop 13 unconstitutional is already headed for a willing judge on the Ninth Circuit. Think Jerry Brown would defend Prop 13?

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