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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (159030)1/27/2003 5:13:09 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1580262
 
Furthermore, this law was established to protect the voting rights of minorities. Why would Mr. Pickering object to that?

You can object to a law without objecting to the laws motivations.

He didn't simply object, he blocked its implementation. Can you see the distinction?

And do you suggest that if you don't agree with a law and you are in a position of power than you have the right to do all you can to prevent its implementation?

Judges do that sort of thing.

They do.......when and where? As far as I know they can rule for or against a law. You can not block its implementation.

It wouldn't have to be racist but unless he has a sincere reason to think the law constitutionally questionable it would seem to be a case of legislating from the bench. I would have to know more details about this situation to give you a better answer.

Then you submit a case to the US Supreme Court.

Also what is this 15 years you are talking about? You seem to be saying that the voting rights act was not in effect in Mississippi until 1980. I've never heard or read that claim anywhere except in your post.

The state was 35% black and heavily segregated. Yet there was not a black legislator in office until 1980, 15 years after the law was passed in 1965. You do the math.

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