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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: TimF who wrote (70536)6/21/2014 7:07:40 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
I believe you may be a little confused about what the US Supreme Court interprets... and what it said in that (and other) cases.

It interprets a NATIONAL constitution... not the individual State constitutions.

In Bush v. Gore it's reasoning was based upon the US Constitution, (not Florida's constitution. :-)

And it's call was for uniformity in treatment of voters based on EQUAL PROTECTION, grounded in the US Constitution's language.

So too will the exact same reasoning apply to voting access (just as it historically did to poll taxes, 'literacy tests' and similar such exclusionary tactics).

Remember: you heard it first here from me! :-)
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