Matt Bors for March 07, 2013

Yeah, the oxymoron known as corporate democracy.

Montana tried it in the 1920s. Didn’t work out so well. That’s why (until the conservative activists on the supreme court threw them out, because states’ rights no longer apply) they had the strongest anti-bribery / corruption / campaign finance laws in the U.S.

Would the left feel better if Scalia had called minorities what they call them, voting blocks for their power bases?

I think the blowback on Scalia is that he has started commenting about subjects that have not yet come up before the court. Whether he has already made up his mind before any testimony or not, it appears that way. Also, this particular issue has to do with determining if the Voting Rights Act’s provisions of Judiciary reviewing changes in voting laws to determine whether said changes may disenfranchise a specific voting bloc.

If this review is as I understand it, this will turn out to be a decision of whether conditions are different enough from the deep-segregation days of the fifties and sixties that those provisions are no longer needed. The question is whether we have gotten so homogeneous as a society that one group may not need the special protections that were determined to be needed in the past.

To me, this is exactly the thing that Scalia’s past statements and decisions would suggest that the Court should not even be deliberating. First off, it’s not a constitutional issue (again, I do not hold a degree in constitutional law, but this doesn’t stop any of the other posters from giving informed opinions here). If I’m right, this is a decision for Congress to decide if the law needs changing. Second, it comes pretty close to legislating from the bench. Activist judges, and all that.

Then again, it appears that the other branches of government are not doing their jobs as sworn to do; why should the judicial branch be left out?

I observe that poor people also do not get on a plane, rent a car, buy a car, buy a house, and get credit, etc. You sound like you’ve never been poor.

So tired of the voter ID argument. Every registered voter ALREADY HAS A VOTER ID. It’s called your voter registration card. You should have to present it when you vote. Duh!

So why not let people register to vote there? Repubs consistently prevent it!!