A New Threat to the Voting Rights Act
A New Threat to the Voting Rights Act
Plus: Some thoughts on Nikki Haley
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KIM WEHLE: A New Threat to the Voting Rights Act.
LAST WEEK, A FEDERAL APPEALS COURT ruled in a 2-1 decision that there is no private cause of action under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). What this means is that only the Department of Justiceāand not voters and other groupsācan sue to challenge electoral maps that are gerrymandered to the disadvantage of racial minorities. Because most Section 2 cases are brought by private plaintiffs and not DOJ, the ruling, if left to stand, will make it much harder for courts in the seven states of the Eighth CircuitāArkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakotaāto enforce whatās left of the VRA.
Letās start with some backgroundā¦
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JILL LAWRENCE: Nikki Haley Stands for Everything and Nothing.
THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY owns a very special pair of red, white, and blue flip-flops. Republicans sold them at their 2004 convention to fuel their flip-flop attacks on then-Sen. John Kerry, the Democrat running against President George W. Bush.
I nominate Nikki Haley for her own Smithsonian exhibit. She may or may not be on track to wrest the 2024 Republican nomination from Donald Trump, but this much is clear: Sheās already a museum-level flip-flopper. Flip-flops with five-inch heels, anyone?
ROBERT ZUBRIN: Give āEm Hell, Haley!
THE WESTERN ALLIANCE FACES a critical test in Ukraine.
Should Putinās invasion of Ukraine prevail, Russia will be greatly strengthened both materially and technically. Its armed forces will be at the borders of NATO allies Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania. Its strategic weakness along its southwest border, which constrains its ability to invade the Baltic states, will be gone. If the United States allows such a strategic catastrophe to happen, it will completely discredit the policies of collective security and deterrence that have prevented the outbreak of general war for the past eighty years.
LISTENš§: Mona and Charlie consider Haleyās chances on Just Between Us š
My View: Nikki Haley is an ideal candidate to support to deny Trump the nomination. Who knows if she will, or can, be that candidate on Super Tuesday. In an alternate universe, itās possible sheād be an excellent candidate to support in a general election. In this universe, she is not.
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