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Originally Posted by dc_dux
The Bush crowd knew what they were doing. The cries of voter fraud provided the cover for the Bush administration, and particularly political appointees in DoJ, to support the more insidioius efforts to suppress the votes of minorities:
Fortunately, we still have a Court that understands that voting rights are sacred and above Republican politicization of the Justice Dept.
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How can you presume anything about "the Court". How much of the Reagan / Rehnquist mindset is still alive and "on the bench"?
Information here suggests that Reagan tapped Rehnquist because they shared the same indifference to racial inequality:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...st#post2201368
Rehnquist's dramatic lack of fitness and his "problem", first, as a poll "monitor", and then, in Phoenix, makes it seem that the problem of a "reverse" strategy when it comes to protecting voting rights is an entrenched attitude among many party members in position to make an official difference, if they weren't so partisan and lacking a sense of duty to protect voting rights of minorities with a long history as targets of those who have tried to interfere with their right to vote without unequal burden or challengeL
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...st#post2176531