The Republican Party have been yard at work undermining over a century’s progress toward ensuring basic Constitutional rights to all Americans. They have attacked the rights of racial minorities, women, LGTP people, seniors, students, and more. Few have been more helpful in this regard than the Fascist Five Injustices of SCROTUS (Republican Constitutional VD). Here they go again!
Two days after celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth, the Supreme Court will consider weakening a federal housing discrimination law passed in the wake of his death.
The showdown over the Fair Housing Act of 1968 has been anticipated for several years — eagerly by conservatives who say the law has gone too far, anxiously by civil rights groups who fear it will be rolled back.
The facts of the case — involving a decision by Dallas officials to make most federal low-income housing vouchers available in poor, minority neighborhoods — are less important than the potential nationwide impact. If the court rules as expected, housing discrimination cases would be tougher to win from coast to coast.
Two earlier housing discrimination lawsuits from Minnesota and New Jersey were withdrawn or settled just before reaching the high court — in one case at the urging of the Obama administration, which is aligned with the civil rights community. They fear what most court-watchers predict: that five justices are poised to weaken the law, just as they did the Voting Rights Act in 2013…
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Rachel Maddow put the story in context.
I fully agree with Rachel’s analysis. The Fascist Five Republican Injustices of SCROTUS went out of their way to hear this case, because they want to gut civil rights protections. Bye Bye Fair Housing!
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I am afraid that it is going to get worse. We may have a repeat of the 1960s and with our militarized police, protesters are going to be hurt worse than before. Next they will want to bring back slavery.
MLK jr. is crying.
This is just the beginning. Anything bama said last night don't mean shit. There will be NO help for the middle class from these people in power. Wait till Jebber climbs into the saddle.
For those who pray, I guess prayers for Roberts to discern what we all see are in order. Thanks TC
I don't doubt MLK Jr is crying. So is Jesus. Despite her incrdible control, I heard hints in Rachel's voice too. And certainly I am.
What will we do when we all get to the anger stage of grieving? Let's hope we all do at the same time.
I didn't know whether to laugh or weep when I saw the cartoon – it is one of the best I have ever seen, but so painfully true!
This is awful – it seems to me that it will result in more poor families thrown onto the street.
These "Acts" are only gone if we allow them to be. We must not just focus on getting people out to vote but also on forcing our legislators to make allowing private corporations to have control on our elections. No company should be able to donate to politicians while they own/have access to our election machine codes. They can/have changed votes in precincts wherever they wished. No election result can be trusted anywhere. .
We don't even know if the results of the last election was legit. In some precincts I doubt it they were. We the Real People have let those politicians who voted to permit these corporations to buy our elections should be kicked out of office or made so uncomfortable that they will leave on their own. Once, we have taken back the legitimacy of our political system then we can kick-out the crooks…peace.
CORRECTION,
The second sentence should be, "We must not just focus on getting people out to vote but also on forcing our legislators to make allowing private corporations which have control of our elections illegal."
Welcome Cheryl. 🙂
How do you suggest er accomplish this?
USA Today:
A shakeup of the "Comfort Zone".
"gut civil rights protections"
Rachel Maddow is spot on in her analysis of this story.
OMG: The GOP/TP VD has, once again, come forth to tear down and gut the Civil Rights protections piece by piece. Bigotry and Racism is rearing its ugly head in the form and shape of its pointed hats. See cartoon above of the 5 SCROTUMS. They are: Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Kennedy. All that is missing from the robes of the 5 Justices? are their corporate sponsorship emblems and the endorsements from the KKK.
The five justices were appointed by Republican presidents and continue to show that their true loyalties are firmly aligned with America’s super rich.
Five Republican Supreme Court Justices Want America Ruled by the One Percent
This article includes a photo of the court and the 5 justices? wearing their corporate logos on their robes. Two logos missing are: Koch Bros. & the KKK emblems.
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/04/02/republican-supreme-court-justices-america-ruled-percent.html
For other cases before the Supreme Court, see the LINK to SCOTUS:
http://www.supremecourt.gov/
This is the end of any attempts at equality if they , Scotus, reverse this decision. We need term limits for all offices, beginning with the Supreme Court, and continuing to the Senate and House of Representatives. No more career politicians or judges who owe Corporations and other large contributors and have no moral compass to guide them.
In listening to Jeh Johnson and Rachel Maddow, I was reminded of the words of Martin Niemöller
Likewise, this from Edmund Burke
In gutting the Voting Rights Act and the Fair Housing Act, SCOTUS is setting the stage for a future revolution within the country. People can be pushed only so far and then they dig their heels in and say "Hell no, we won't go!". That revolution can take a number of forms. But I find it interesting that a country that cries "freedom" and "democracy" and criticises other countries for their lack of same, is suffering from the same lack of freedom and democracy, but its people, at least many of them, just don't realise it yet.
Thanks all. I'm pit stopping, because tomorrow is a prison volunteer day.
Of course the graphic is satire.
The graphic is satire which shows the invisible reality behind the original photo.
This is from memory, so it won't be perfect: The white middle class is at sea during a storm in a small rowboat which is barely seaworthy. We see minorities floundering in the ocean around us and we say, "Wow! Sure am lucky to be in this rowboat!" And we don't see the 300-foot yacht bearing down on us. That perfectly describes the people who think we are still a democracy with freedom.
President Obama needs to put someone on this court, somehow! It would be scandalous for him to have been in office for 8 years and not be able to put someone in this heinous bunch!
SCROTUS is the scourge of the US!