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How can Justice Scalia call the Civil Rights act what he did?
"...perpetuation of another racial entitlement..."
Should not all Americans deserve the right to vote, not referring to immigrants I am referring to Americans. Is Washington really that out of touch with reality that it believes it can spout this garbage without repercussions?
And you chose to attack a simple mistake rather than address more pressing issue?
Here for people saying did not do research, I did post in anger, I apologize for that, but still the point is even worse when seen in the transcript...
And this last enactment, not a single vote in the Senate against it. And the House is pretty much the same. Now, I don’t think that’s attributable to the
fact that it is so much clearer now that we need this. I think it is attributable, very likely attributable, to a phenomenon that is called perpetuation of racial
entitlement. It’s been written about. Whenever a society adopts racial entitlements, it is very difficult to get out of them through the normal political processes.
I don’t think there is anything to be gained by any Senator to vote against continuation of this act. And I am fairly confident it will be reenacted in perpetuity unless — unless a court can say it does not comport with the Constitution. You have to show, when you are treating different States differently, that there’s a good reason for it.
That’s the — that’s
Again, I posted the entire thing, or tried too. You are just ignoring the implications and being lost in the jargon, their no phenomena of what he speaks, he essentially made it up. Lawyers are very careful when they speak, it's well known, thus why they are so selective about terminology, that's why you need to read between the lines.
Low information my ***, I did post in anger but then checked up and still found similar results.
Oh man so basically when he said it's written about, he meant he wrote about it in 1979, that is just wow, talk about arrogant as all hell!
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- justaLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
Washington isn't Scalia is.
And since he is appointed for life he can be as stupid as he chooses to be without repercussions.
Of course all eligible Americans should have the right to vote, Republicans aren't happy with that idea so they are trying in every way imaginable to negate the numerical superiority of Democrats, who, if they all got off the sofa on election day would win every office.
But rank-and-file Democrats aren't ideologues, and they tend to take a rather zen view of elections, whatever happens life goes on.
They think because we have choice now, it will always be there.
They think nothing much will really change.
Then one day it will and they will find they've been gerrymandered out of existence, the requirements for getting voter ID are losing a days pay and only available in one office in each state, and always in a Republican area.
They might just decide to vote then.
- Anonymous8 years ago
lol you sort of confuse the civil rights act with the voting rights act, no? Does this make you a low information voter?
Did you actually read what Scalia said in context of the argument? He said that it was predicated on gross discrimination when it was enacted-but does that gross discrimination still exist now? Or is it being passed simply because it racial entitlement and has little to do with reality. It's a fair question when your a justice--your job as a justice is to make the lawyers defend their positions. If you were a bit more of a voter with information you'd realize this. Sounds to me like you've latched onto a 30 second sound byte and made your argument.
- TeeknoLv 78 years ago
Actually, he called the unanimous vote to reauthorize the Act that, not the Act itself.
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- Anonymous8 years ago
Like all Italian men, he has a secret black girlfriend and a couple of kids with her.
