In my weekly column for the American Issues Project today, I take a look at Congress’ failure to address the ongoing problems encountered by our servicemen and -women as they attempt to exercise their right to vote. in every election, a disturbing percentage of our men and women in active duty have their votes go uncounted through no fault of their own. And Congress - which is eager to address complaints of disenfranchisement by liberal groups - ignores their concerns. Simple and straightforward legislation has been introduced by Senator John Cornyn and Congressman Kevin McCarthy to fix the problem, but so far Congress has shown little interest.
If you’re interested in this issue, go read the column. And contact your Member of Congress, and ask him or her to sign on to the Military Voting Protection Act.
Why Won’t Congress Protect the Military’s Right to Vote?
Vannek Friday, May 29th at 4:20PM EDT (link)1.) Because most of them won’t vote Democrat.
2.) There are no New Black Panthers available to monitor their polling places.
Correct on both counts, Vannek
Vegas_Rick Friday, May 29th at 4:54PM EDT (link)There’s nothing in it for them.
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” Calvin Coolidge.
Well, I'm sure there Are Black Panthers available
Raven Friday, May 29th at 7:53PM EDT (link)The problem with said monitors is that they’re only comfortable trying to intimidate unarmed people…
“Unlike cruel liberty that requires you to stand and take responsibility for your choices, kind tyranny requires only that you kneel and surrender your choices.”
Maybe they should disguise themselves....
NeoKong Friday, May 29th at 8:49PM EDT (link)As illegal aliens.Then it is certain that their votes will be counted.
The opinion of a wise whitino male.
...and from today's Washington Times:
Big Apple Infidel Friday, May 29th at 9:23PM EDT (link)EDITORIAL: The franchise for felons
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor wants to give jailbirds the right to vote. It’s her opinion that the federal Voting Rights Act can be used to force states to allow voting by currently imprisoned felons. Ms. Sotomayor’s dissenting opinion in a 2006 felon-voting case should make senators extremely wary of confirming her for the high court.
In Hayden v. Pataki, a number of inmates in New York state filed suit claiming that because blacks and Latinos make up a disproportionate share of the prison population, the state’s refusal to allow them ballot access amounts to an unlawful, race-based denial of their right to vote. Eight of 13 judges on the liberal-leaning Second Circuit dismissed their arguments, and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled likewise in a similar case.
Yet, operating on a dubious and extremely broad reading of the Voting Rights Act, Ms. Sotomayor dissented from the decision. In a remarkably dismissive, four-paragraph opinion, she alleged that the “plain terms” of the Voting Rights Act would allow such race-based claims to go forward.
Judge Jose Cabranes, who like Ms. Sotomayor was appointed by President Bill Clinton, didn’t find the matter to be so clear. His majority decision against the criminal felons, in favor of the state, comprised 36 tightly reasoned pages. Particularly compelling is the fact that the Voting Rights Act was passed to help further the aims of the Constitution’s 14th and 15th Amendments. The 14th Amendment specifically allows states to deny the vote to those convicted of crimes.
Ms. Sotomayor is thus in the position of asserting that Congress can prohibit New York from doing something the Constitution itself specifically endorses. It’s as if she thinks black and Hispanic felons are convicted in order to deny them the vote, rather than that they are denied the vote as a result of being duly convicted. Her position ignores the fact that it is the convicts’ own actions, their crimes - not any state-based racial discrimination - that make those felons ineligible to vote.
As almost every state has done since the United States was founded, New York forbids currently incarcerated or paroled prisoners from voting. Some states go even farther by prohibiting some felons from voting even after they have served their sentences. New York’s law is not so stringent. It only applies to felons still under criminal sentences. It equally applies to all felons, black or white.
There is growing evidence that Judge Sotomayor believes some races are more equal than others. She said in a 2001 speech that she would expect a Latina judge to reach the right decision more often than would a white male judge. Her dissenting opinion in Hayden v. Pataki is another example of her taking racial grievance-mongering to absurd new depths. They are depths unbefitting a Supreme Court justice.
Greetings from occupied territory!