{"id":1804,"date":"2013-03-01T00:12:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T05:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2013-03-06T15:59:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T20:59:03","slug":"justice-scalia-sees-voting-rights-act-as-racial-entitlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=1804","title":{"rendered":"Justice Scalia Sees Voting Rights Act as \u201cRacial Entitlement\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Times<\/strong>, February 27, 2013<\/p>\n

Voting Rights Law Draws Skepticism From Justices <\/strong> <\/em>By Adam Liptak<\/a>
\nWASHINGTON \u2014 A central provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 may be in peril, judging from tough questioning on Wednesday from the Supreme Court\u2019s more conservative members.
\nIf the court overturns the provision, nine states, mostly in the South, would become free to change voting procedures without first getting permission from federal officials…
\n…Justice Antonin Scalia said the law, once a civil rights landmark, now amounted to a \u201cperpetuation of racial entitlement.\u201d
\n_________________________________________________________________
\n<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/em>(with apologies to Calvin Trillin and Dorothy Parker)
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

If MLK were still in the fight,
\nno doubt he’d know it isn’t right,
\nto give the blahs<\/a> advantage.<\/p>\n

He’d proudly see it just and true,
\nto back Scalia and his crew.
\nFor they like him believe
\nin equal rights for ALL.<\/p>\n

Unlike those nasty Democrats,
\nthey’re crazier than rabid bats!
\nEvery one a panderer,
\nand also, too, you know it’s true,
\nwe’ve ALWAYS been at war with Oceania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York Times, February 27, 2013 Voting Rights Law Draws Skepticism From Justices By Adam Liptak WASHINGTON \u2014 A central provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 may be in peril, judging from tough questioning on Wednesday from the Supreme Court\u2019s more conservative members. If the court overturns the provision, nine states, mostly in … Continue reading Justice Scalia Sees Voting Rights Act as \u201cRacial Entitlement\u201d<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,105],"tags":[253,542,546,545,543,544,541],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions\/1891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}