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| Chief Justice John Roberts |
The U.S. Supreme court ruled on June
25, 2013 by a Writ of Certiorari to “invalidate”
section 4 of the Voter Rights Act (VRA) of 1965. This section provides crucial
protections for Black Americans against states that have a long history of promulgating
racist obstructions to voting or running for office. Chief Justice John Roberts,
delivered the Supreme Court’s opinion in the SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA v. HOLDER,
ATTORNEY GENERAL, ET AL, case. As stated in the Supreme Court Syllabus for this
case:
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was enacted to address
entrenched racial discrimination in voting, “an insidious and pervasive evil
which had been perpetuated in certain parts of our country through unremitting
and ingenious defiance of the Constitution.” South Carolina v. Katzenbach, 383 U.
S. 301, 309. Section 2 of the Act, which
bans any “standard, practice, or procedure” that “results in a denial or
abridgement of the right of any citizen . . . to vote on account of race or
color,” 42 U. S. C. §1973(a), applies nationwide, is permanent, and is not at
issue in this case.
Article II Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution,
provides that the judicial Power of the united States , shall be vested in
one supreme court. The supreme court has jurisdiction to interpret issues of
the U.S. Constitution and statutes that Congress has enacted pursuant to its
limited powers under the U.S. Constitution.
One can interpret the current actions of the U.S.
Supreme Court by some of the current theories of Jurisprudence. I believe that
our present U.S. Supreme court justices are operating under Legal Realism. “The proponents of Legal
Realism assert that judges decide cases based on factors other than logic
and preexisting rules, such as economic and sociological factors.”
It is my opinion that their ruling is an example of
an Evolutionary Approach to
constitutional interpretation in which judges seek to determine the underlying,
purpose that the drafters had in mind at the time they wrote the law and the
modern-day option that best advances that purpose.
Voting fraud is rampant throughout this country. Even
the presidential elections are nothing but a staged TV media show to make it
look like we are living in a “free” country. Our leaders are not elected by the
U.S. Citizenry but are selected by the 1%. These elections are just staged TV
shows to make it look like American citizens are electing these unscrupulous
politicians into office. It was very obvious that our last President George Walker Bush, was not duly
elected as president in his first term or especially the second term. His
“selection” into office was just another hostile take over by the Bush Family
Regime and “Right Wing” Republicans. He even got the lone African American Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice, of the
U.S. Supreme Court to authorize his election “selection” results
that put Bush into office. His election was highly criticized for corruption
and for obvious attempts to suppress Black American voter turnout.
The U.S. Supreme court does not have jurisdiction to
decide the outcome of elections from the states for the American people.
Associate Justice Clarence Thomas did not mention this fact and still has not
even tried to do anything about it! This was obvious bias on partisan lines for
Republicans by Clarence Thomas. Subsequently, the Supreme Court did nothing to
oppose any of the criminal acts by the Bush Administration and has done nothing
to end the voter fraud and voter manipulations that dominate our electoral
process in this country.
As reported by the article published on the RT
Website, “The regions covered by the part of the Act that was struck down,
Section 4, have, in recent years, been twice as likely as those not covered to
have proven violations under other sections of the Act,” wrote The New Yorker’s Amy Davidson.
George
Walker Bush, just like his father
George H. W. Bush, has
conducted a campaign to “dismantle” the Civil Rights advancements that were gained
for Black Americans by 1965. I feel that the executive branch of our government
is using the Supreme Court in the Judicial Branch of our government to continue
their degradation of Civil Rights for Black Americans that is guaranteed by our
constitution.
The Supreme Court’s justification of their ruling
states in essence, there is no problem because more blacks are voting than back
in 1965 and there are more blacks in political office now than back in 1965.This
seems to be some kind of “Judicial Propaganda” to me and does not reflect true
statistics or reality. I do know that voter turn out in California for Black Americans is at an all
time low because there are no viable candidates for Blacks to vote for. They
say that there are more Blacks in office now than back in 1964. This is true,
but these so-called African Americans in political office have no real
substance and will not stand up for Black Americans at all! This can be seen by
our current President Barack Obama, who will not even say “Black Americans”
when he is running for office, has not mentioned any of the atrocities that
have been committed against Black Americans by our judicial system and law
enforcement agencies. Obama demonstrated during his campaign that he is
committed to do more for Mexico
and Mexicans than American citizens. That is why African Americans are worse
off now than back in 1913!
The Supreme Court’s opinion also states that voter
protections for Black Americans should be based on current conditions than what was prevalent back in 1965. It
seems to me that this opinion of the constitution is keeping in the Evolutionary Approach of constitutional
interpretational jurisprudence, in that they are trying to take current
social issues into consideration as a basis for the requirement that the federal government
“preclear” states or local changes in election rules that could potentially
prevent minorities from voting. If this were true, then they should be trying
to add more protections for Black Americans for voter rights and to assure that
viable Black American candidates run for office that will stand up of the
rights of Black African Americans than to just take away all protections.
