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the vibe? justices scalia and sotomayor and kagan? a lot of people were surprised to hear justice scalia refer to the voting rights act as an entitlement. no one knows what he was actually thinking, but the word xwil entitlement suggests are you getting something that you didn t earn and we think of the voting rights act as sort of an equality mandate for all americans. equality mandate. not an entitlement. when the voters of texas and african-american latinos, federal courts found they were intentionally discriminated against. section 5 s ability to stop that, that s not entitlement, that s american justice. i don t believe, dale, that voting is a racial entitlement. i don t know how anyone could make that statement. giving him the benefit of the
whenever a society adopts racial entitlements, it is very difficult to get out of them through the normal political processes. joining me now are two people who were in the courtroom for the arguments. julie fernandes, a former deputy attorney general in the civil rights division of the justice department, and dale ho of the naacp legal defense and education fund who has worked on this case from the beginning. julie, take me in the supreme court. what was the body language? what was the vibe when they get into it? meaning justices scalia and sotomayor and kagan? i think that a lot of people were surprised to hear justice scalia refer to the voting rights act as a racial entitlement. i think that the language no one knows exactly what he was thinking, but the word entitlement suggests that somehow you are getting something that you didn t earn. for many of us we think of the voting rights act and the right to vote as sort of an equality mandate for all americans. it s an equality
sotomayor and kagan? i think that a lot of people were surprised to hear justice scalia refer to the voting rights act as a racial entitlement. no one knows what he was actually thinking, but i think the word entitlement suggests somehow that you re getting something you didn t earn, and for many of us we think of the voting rights act and the right to vote as sort of an equality mandate for all americans. it s an equality mandate, not some kind of an entitlement, something that when the voters of texas and in texas, african-americans and latinos, federal courts found that they were intentionally discriminated against. their right to vote, section 5 s ability to stop that, that s not a racial entitlement. that s american justice. i don t believe, dale, that voting is a racial entitlement. i don t know how anyone could make such a statement, but giving him the benefit of the doubt, it was bone-headed what he said at best. as i read the full context, he seemed to be saying we never