Top Perry Confidant Calls for an End to the Voting Rights Act

[Gothmog]

5. Voting Rights Act

The constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act will be raised in each and every case. A federal judge appinted by George W. Bush actually wrote a very good opinion on the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act where he makes a very good case that the VRA is indeed constitutional. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/us/judge-rejects-challenge-to-voting-rights-law-by-county-in-alabama.html This opinion was in effect written like a brief and makes a strong case that the VRA is constitutional.

I am still hoping that the DOJ will not pre-clear SB14 (the Texas voter id law) and that the DC circuit rules against the districts as drawn by the Texas legislature. In addition. the SCOTUS may address the VRA in the appeal of the stay on the maps for Texas. The opinion in the Alabama case cited above may help with Justice Kennedy on the issue of whether the VRA is valid.