Georgia seeks to strike down Voting Rights Act

[mfcorey1]

Georgia filed suit earlier this month asking that the court approve Republican-backed plans to redraw the state's legislative and congressional districts. But in that filing, the state asks that if the court rejects its redistricting plans, that it also rule the law that requires that approval to be unconstitutional.

Georgia is one of nine states that must get any change in election law, including district maps, pre-approved by either the Justice Department or the federal court in Washington. That preclearance is required by Section V of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark 1964 law passed in the wake of Jim Crow and voting laws aimed at limiting the ability of African-Americans to vote.

"The state of Georgia and its voters are being subjected to the continued extraordinary intrusion into its constitutional sovereignty through Section 5 and its outdated preclearance formula based upon discriminatory conditions that existed more than 47 years ago but have long since been remedied," the state says in its filing.

http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-politics-elections/georgia-seeks-to-strike-1209979.html

[MrSlayer]

1. They haven't been "remedied", they've been held at bay.

They only want to get rid of it so they can go back to the way it was before. We're not that stupid. At least I hope not.

[mfcorey1]

2. What is so heartbreaking or maybe it was planned is that after Deal won the governorship,

several democrats who won seats immediately switched and became republicans. This was true across ethnic lines. Something still stinks in Georgia.

[madrchsod]

3. the ghost of old lester...ya just can`t keep a good man down can ya

you would think the state would have progressed in 47 years....


i mean no offense to the people of georgia who understand this issue should have been buried a long time ago