Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburgh
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This is the year of the scathing Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissent. The woman, the myth, the jabot connoisseur, Ginsburg handed down yet another blistering dissent, this time criticizing Texas’ controversial voter ID law. In her six-page dissent, Ginsburg attacks the voter ID law for being discriminatory, and dismisses the argument that it’s too close to the 2014 election date to not enforce the provision. It’s classic Notorious RBG — and we wouldn’t expect anything less.
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Texas’ voter ID law early Saturday morning, dismissing an emergency request from the Department of Justice, which sought to block the law from being enforced during the upcoming midterm elections. The law — which could potentially bar 600,000 Texans, mostly African-Americans and Latinos, from voting in November — has been ping-ponging between federal courts. Last week, a federal judge struck down the law, calling it an “unconstitutional burden on the right to vote.” However, a federal appeals court stayed […]
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As responsible citizens we should have the natural right to eliminate justices who are not responsive to the requirements of the constitution, like Roberts and his neo-liberals. They are the ones who should not be allowed to vote.