Tinker:
Giving special
allowances to a person because of their different skin color seems very
insulting to me, and I feel like people who are not the same color shade
of Caucasians people must feel the same way.
The slavery years are long
ago gone and far, far away, very far from how our society does business
now, so all that liberal special privilege stuff to the ancestors of
people who were once slaves long ago in mankind's history is just a lot
of bull talk to me now.
I don't really listen to that Ivory tower bull
talk now and have treated other people just like I treat myself. I am
very tired of the social confusion going around our government
politicians running Washington DC these days, how about you?
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5-4 Decision... ACTIVIST! Roberts Overrules Congress...
Obama: 'Deeply Disappointed' In Decision..
GINSBURG: 'The Court Errs Egregiously'...
Civil Rights Legend: Supremes 'Put A Dagger In The Heart Of The Voting Rights Act'...
Roberts' Long War Against VRA...
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Jun 25, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER
In a statement, President Obama called today's Supreme Court decision on the Voting Rights Act a "setback."
"I am deeply disappointed with the Supreme Court’s decision today. For nearly 50 years, the Voting Rights Act – enacted and repeatedly renewed by wide bipartisan majorities in Congress – has helped secure the right to vote for millions of Americans. Today’s decision invalidating one of its core provisions upsets decades of well-established practices that help make sure voting is fair, especially in places where voting discrimination has been historically prevalent," reads Obama's statement.
"As a nation, we’ve made a great deal of progress towards guaranteeing every American the right to vote. But, as the Supreme Court recognized, voting discrimination still exists. And while today’s decision is a setback, it doesn’t represent the end of our efforts to end voting discrimination. I am calling on Congress to pass legislation to ensure every American has equal access to the polls. My Administration will continue to do everything in its power to ensure a fair and equal voting process."
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Shocking ruling: Is Congress up for this?
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The 5 to 4 vote struck down a section of the historic civil rights legislation that determined which states, many of them with histories of racial discrimination, needed approval from the Department of Justice before changing voting laws.
NBC News Chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd said on MSNBC that Congress is not “mature enough” to reach a speedy political solution.
“This is not a welcome decision, by any means,” a senior White House official said in reaction to the decision. “But there is a theoretical path for Congress to update the statute in ways that would make it constitutional.”
“As a practical matter, that may be difficult to do given political dynamics,” the official told NBC News.
The White House has not yet released an official comment on the decision, but activists said they would organize to reach a new way to apply the law that they said protect the voting rights of vulnerable Americans.
Removing the map determining which jurisdictions need pre-clearance of new voting laws rendered the Voting Rights Act effectively toothless, law professor Kenji Yoshino said on MSNBC. While lawmakers could draw up a new map, “it’s not clear that this Congress is going to have the will to do that,” he said.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Senator Patrick Leahy, a Democrat, said that he looked forward to working with members of Congress after the court’s ruling.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand called the Supreme Court’s ruling a “significant setback that will put Congress to the test of whether we can move quickly and without partisanship.”
Republican Senator Jeff Duncan called the court’s ruling a “win for fairness,” saying that he hoped it would “end the practice of treating states differently and recognizes that we live in 2013, not the 1960s.”
“This is not an issue just for civil rights advocates, this is not an issue just for African Americans or Latinos, this is not just an issue for those in the South,” said Sherrilyn Ifill, director-counsel of the NAACP’s legal defense and educational fund. “This is the American we have all come to expect and that we have all come to enjoy and be proud of, and the question for us is are we willing to fight for it.”
Politico Playbook: "Not yet six months into his second term, Barack Obama's presidency is in a dead zone," Politico's John Harris, Jake Sherman and Elizabeth Titus write. Harris joins Morning Joe to explain exactly why Obama currently has "less influence over his circumstances."
“We will not sit down, we will not be silent, we will not accept the evisceration of our rights, we will fight every step of the way to make sure that voting rights are available to every single American,” said Barbara Arbwine, president of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
“This is devastating,” civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton said on MSNBC. “I think what we must do is really put pressure on Congress now to deal with this.”
“This is a devastating blow to those of us that need that protection, especially given the voter suppression schemes that we saw in 2012,” Sharpton said.
Sharpton said that voting rights were among the most important issues when Dr. Martin Luther King pushed for civil rights for black Americans in the 1960s.
”They just canceled the dream,” Sharpton said, “and the children of the dream are not going to sit by and allow that to happen.”
Civil rights litigator Judith Browne Dianis said that while the face of racial discrimination in voting has changed over the years, there are still many states that have “tried to roll back voting rights by making it harder to vote for people of color.”
“We know that discrimination still exists in those states. We know that discrimination also exists in other states,” Dianis said. “We’re going to have to set the record straight.”
“We witnessed in the last election cycle numerous states, an orchestrated effort, forty states in fact, where legislation was introduced to suppress the vote,” said Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League.
“I think this is another opportunity from both sides of the Congress to demonstrate that this is not going to get caught up in partisan wrangling, obfuscation, and obstruction,” Morial said.
Rick Pildes, a constitutional law professor at New York University, said that politicians concerned about voting rights might see leadership from the White House in the aftermath of the landmark ruling.
“I think there’s probably no body in political office today who understands these issues better than President Barack Obama,” Pildes said.
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Obama: Supreme Court Decision a 'Setback,' Says He's 'Deeply Disappointed'
Jun 25, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER
In a statement, President Obama called today's Supreme Court decision on the Voting Rights Act a "setback."
"I am deeply disappointed with the Supreme Court’s decision today. For nearly 50 years, the Voting Rights Act – enacted and repeatedly renewed by wide bipartisan majorities in Congress – has helped secure the right to vote for millions of Americans. Today’s decision invalidating one of its core provisions upsets decades of well-established practices that help make sure voting is fair, especially in places where voting discrimination has been historically prevalent," reads Obama's statement.
"As a nation, we’ve made a great deal of progress towards guaranteeing every American the right to vote. But, as the Supreme Court recognized, voting discrimination still exists. And while today’s decision is a setback, it doesn’t represent the end of our efforts to end voting discrimination. I am calling on Congress to pass legislation to ensure every American has equal access to the polls. My Administration will continue to do everything in its power to ensure a fair and equal voting process."
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Shocking ruling: Is Congress up for this?- Analysis: After the Supreme Court struck down part of the Voting Rights Act that determined which areas were covered, the president & Congress face a tough task.
- Future of the civil rights law is uncertain
- High court eliminates voting map
http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.
Congress not 'mature enough' to deal with Voting Rights Act decision
Decision
Following
the Supreme Court's ruling on the Voting Rights Act, NBC's Chuck Todd
says he's a pessimist on Congress' ability to update the map that
determines which states must get federal permission before they change
their voting laws.
By Matthew DeLuca, Staff Writer, NBC News
Activists
and organizers said that they would urge Congress and the president to
act quickly after the Supreme Court struck down the formula in the
Voting Rights Act that determined which jurisdictions were covered,
presenting lawmakers with a challenge some watchers said they may not be
ready for.The 5 to 4 vote struck down a section of the historic civil rights legislation that determined which states, many of them with histories of racial discrimination, needed approval from the Department of Justice before changing voting laws.
NBC News Chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd said on MSNBC that Congress is not “mature enough” to reach a speedy political solution.
“This is not a welcome decision, by any means,” a senior White House official said in reaction to the decision. “But there is a theoretical path for Congress to update the statute in ways that would make it constitutional.”
“As a practical matter, that may be difficult to do given political dynamics,” the official told NBC News.
The White House has not yet released an official comment on the decision, but activists said they would organize to reach a new way to apply the law that they said protect the voting rights of vulnerable Americans.
Removing the map determining which jurisdictions need pre-clearance of new voting laws rendered the Voting Rights Act effectively toothless, law professor Kenji Yoshino said on MSNBC. While lawmakers could draw up a new map, “it’s not clear that this Congress is going to have the will to do that,” he said.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Senator Patrick Leahy, a Democrat, said that he looked forward to working with members of Congress after the court’s ruling.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand called the Supreme Court’s ruling a “significant setback that will put Congress to the test of whether we can move quickly and without partisanship.”
Republican Senator Jeff Duncan called the court’s ruling a “win for fairness,” saying that he hoped it would “end the practice of treating states differently and recognizes that we live in 2013, not the 1960s.”
“This is not an issue just for civil rights advocates, this is not an issue just for African Americans or Latinos, this is not just an issue for those in the South,” said Sherrilyn Ifill, director-counsel of the NAACP’s legal defense and educational fund. “This is the American we have all come to expect and that we have all come to enjoy and be proud of, and the question for us is are we willing to fight for it.”
Politico Playbook: "Not yet six months into his second term, Barack Obama's presidency is in a dead zone," Politico's John Harris, Jake Sherman and Elizabeth Titus write. Harris joins Morning Joe to explain exactly why Obama currently has "less influence over his circumstances."
“We will not sit down, we will not be silent, we will not accept the evisceration of our rights, we will fight every step of the way to make sure that voting rights are available to every single American,” said Barbara Arbwine, president of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
“This is devastating,” civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton said on MSNBC. “I think what we must do is really put pressure on Congress now to deal with this.”
“This is a devastating blow to those of us that need that protection, especially given the voter suppression schemes that we saw in 2012,” Sharpton said.
Sharpton said that voting rights were among the most important issues when Dr. Martin Luther King pushed for civil rights for black Americans in the 1960s.
”They just canceled the dream,” Sharpton said, “and the children of the dream are not going to sit by and allow that to happen.”
Civil rights litigator Judith Browne Dianis said that while the face of racial discrimination in voting has changed over the years, there are still many states that have “tried to roll back voting rights by making it harder to vote for people of color.”
“We know that discrimination still exists in those states. We know that discrimination also exists in other states,” Dianis said. “We’re going to have to set the record straight.”
“We witnessed in the last election cycle numerous states, an orchestrated effort, forty states in fact, where legislation was introduced to suppress the vote,” said Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League.
“I think this is another opportunity from both sides of the Congress to demonstrate that this is not going to get caught up in partisan wrangling, obfuscation, and obstruction,” Morial said.
Rick Pildes, a constitutional law professor at New York University, said that politicians concerned about voting rights might see leadership from the White House in the aftermath of the landmark ruling.
“I think there’s probably no body in political office today who understands these issues better than President Barack Obama,” Pildes said.
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Analysis & Opinion
NAANTALI, Finland |
Tue Jun 25, 2013 11:27am EDT
(Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir
Putin said on Tuesday former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden
was still in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, was free
to leave and should do so as soon as possible.Putin told a news conference during a visit to Finland that he hoped the affair would not affect relations with Washington, which wants Russia to send him to the United States, but indicated Moscow would not hand him over.
"We can only hand over foreign citizens to countries with which we have an appropriate international agreement on the extradition of criminals," Putin said, adding that Snowden has committed no crime in Russia.
He dismissed U.S. accusations against Moscow over the case as "ravings and rubbish", saying that Russian security agencies had not worked with Snowden but added that he hoped the affair would not hurt relations with the United States.
Snowden, charged with disclosing secret U.S. surveillance programs, arrived at the Moscow airport on Sunday from Hong Kong. The U.S. State Department said diplomats and Justice Department officials were talking to Russia, suggesting they sought a deal to secure his return to face espionage charges.
"Mr. Snowden is a free person," Putin said of the 30-year-old American, who is being aided by the anti-secrecy group Wikileaks and has asked Ecuador for political asylum. "The sooner he chooses his final destination, the better it would be for us and for himself."
(Reporting by Alexei Anishchuk, Writing by Timothy Heritage, Editing by Steve Gutterman)
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By HUNT PALMER
BBI Senior Writer
OMAHA, Neb.-I overpacked.
Wednesday morning I stuffed 12 unworn shirts back into my suitcase, headed home for the summer. North Carolina essentially packed LSU the night before. I gotta tell you I didn’t see this coming.
LSU did not play well enough to win this week in Omaha. Errors and a lack of offensive punch cost them game 1, and the inability to shoot one through the infield with men on based doomed them in game 2.
But these Tigers were good enough to win this week. Next week, too. There’s no doubt in my mind, and that’s what will eat at Paul Mainieri for the next few months.
These Tigers had a true ace. They had speed in the outfield. They had bats with some pop. They had bats that hit for a high average. They had long relievers and strikeout guys in the bullpen. They had a dominant closer. Read more...http://www.tigerrag.
When the players stop hitting in a baseball game everything else doesn't matter because I keep remembering what Yogi Berra said about that, quote "Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical."
PALMER: Around the Horn
June 23, 2013 - © 2013 Tiger Rag
A last look at Omaha
By HUNT PALMER
BBI Senior Writer
OMAHA, Neb.-I overpacked.
Wednesday morning I stuffed 12 unworn shirts back into my suitcase, headed home for the summer. North Carolina essentially packed LSU the night before. I gotta tell you I didn’t see this coming.
LSU did not play well enough to win this week in Omaha. Errors and a lack of offensive punch cost them game 1, and the inability to shoot one through the infield with men on based doomed them in game 2.
But these Tigers were good enough to win this week. Next week, too. There’s no doubt in my mind, and that’s what will eat at Paul Mainieri for the next few months.
These Tigers had a true ace. They had speed in the outfield. They had bats with some pop. They had bats that hit for a high average. They had long relievers and strikeout guys in the bullpen. They had a dominant closer. Read more...http://www.tigerrag.
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james c on
June 23rd, 2013 9:30 pm
Amen! Brother! This was a great team and much fun to watch! Wish for them they could have went all the way!--------------
The future looks bright also for those still around though!
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august gonsoulin on
June 24th, 2013 8:00 am
I like coach Mainieri, but some of his calls I dont. I dont get the swinging at hi balls theary nor do Iget the non bunt theary when Rhymes did not show promise in his previous hittings. Mainiery did that last year also when not sending in his closer and letting his pitchers stay in too long. Oh its great the season was spectacular but changing stratergy in Omaha was a must (no long ball)?------------
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When the players stop hitting in a baseball game everything else doesn't matter because I keep remembering what Yogi Berra said about that, quote "Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical."
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