This VRA ruling is probably the single most depressing ruling

[La Lioness Priyanka]

coming out of the Supremes this year.

I don't have anything else to say, i just wanted to express my deepest sorrow about this ruling.

[JustAnotherGen]

1. I wrote yesterday

After being told that if my boss can't promote me - it is ao kfor him to call me a N8gger - and that I can't have my day in court . . .

And it did not bode well for the VRA.

And voila - I was right.

And now - folks will turn to the South. I caution everyone to remember how on edge we were with our friends down the road in Philly (I'm in Central NJ) this past election.

This was an attack on the Blue Swing States and there is nothing anyone here can tell me that Alito did not know that, he's not a fucking prick asshole, and he has a real chip on his shoulder towards minorities.

This - as was yesterdays was less 'activist' - and more vindictive.

I don't want to read one kind word about Papa Bush on here ever again. He appointed someone who thinks these laws will not apply to him. I hope he takes it on the chin with every poor minority in Philadelphia. I really hope someone does something and he gets disenfranchised and has to whine to Ginny about it.

[silvershadow]

2. yep. back to the future, it seems. 64? nt

[eissa]

3. I feel the same way

I know I shouldn't be, but I was shocked by the ruling. With all the shenanigans that have occurred in recent elections to prevent people from voting, I thought for sure the law would be upheld. This is tragic.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

5. i was not shocked but am still depressed

[UTUSN]

4. Here are the creme de la scum:

Let's see, there's the Eye Roller, the Totem Who Doesn't Speak, the Chin Flicker, the Inaugural Squasher, and the Swings One Way.


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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/24/samuel-alito-rolls-eyes_n_3492704.html

[font size=5]Supreme Court Justice Draws Gasps With 'Mini-Tantrum'
Samuel Alito Rolls Eyes While Ruth Bader Ginsburg Reads Dissent[/font]

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito broke from the high court's usual decorum on Monday morning, rolling his eyes and shaking his head as his senior colleague, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, read her dissents in two cases.

Longtime Supreme Court observer Garrett Epps called it a "mini-tantrum" and "display of rudeness."

"Alito pursed his lips, rolled his eyes to the ceiling, and shook his head 'no,'" wrote Epps in the Atlantic. "He looked for all the world like Sean Penn as Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, signaling to the homies his contempt for Ray Walston as the bothersome history teacher, Mr. Hand."

He added that Alito's gestures "brought gasps from more than one person in the audience."

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank echoed Epps' admonishment:

"His treatment of the 80-year-old Ginsburg, 17 years his senior and with 13 years more seniority, was a curious display of judicial temperament, or, more accurately, judicial intemperance," Milbank wrote. "Typically, justices state their differences in words -- and Alito, as it happens, had just spoken several hundred of his own from the bench. But Alito frequently supplements words with middle-school gestures." ....

According to Milbank, 10 days earlier, Alito also "glowered" at Justice Elena Kagan and "rolled his eyes and shook his head" while Justice Sonia Sotomayor was speaking. ....

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