basically crickets. i am curious how you interpret it? easy, there was the unveiling of the statue of rosa parks, who led the movement, the most important civil rights victory of the movement. so i don t think they were going to unveil this statue and talk about how rosa parks was such a great inspiration and great woman, and then cross the street and say by the way, we think the voting right should be ruled unconstitutional. i think that is what is so remarkable about the case before the court. you have what is particularly by contemporary standards, a remarkable consensus on the piece of legislation. and the moment with scalia, which he refers to racial entitlement, the context in which he is making it. the context in which he shows that each subsequent reauthorization, that to his
54 republican, 44, democratic, and the supreme court today, the one facing the horrible threat to its sovereign dignity, those two senators, both republicans, voted for re-authorization in 2006. here is president george w. bush signing the legislation with congressional leaders, the congressional black caucus and civil rights leaders. during his remarks, the president said this. my administration will strongly enforce the provisions of this law, and we ll defend it in court. so on one level, the national level, the voting rights act has been the rare issue not subject to tremendous partisan polarization. and yet on another level, the law designed to prevent the infringement on voting rights, the head of the pennsylvania party in the state legislature actually bragged about passing a law that disenfranchised the
of the statue of rosa parks, who led the movement, the most important civil rights victory of the movement. so i don t think they were going to unveil this statue and talk about how rosa parks was such a great inspiration and great woman, and then cross the street and say by the way, we think the voting right should be ruled unconstitutional. i think that is what is so remarkable about the case before the court. you have what is particularly by contemporary standards, a remarkable consensus on the piece of legislation. and the moment with scalia, which he refers to racial entitlement, the context in which he is making it. the context in which he shows that each subsequent reauthorization, that to his mind shows that it is something illegitimate, because there is a nefarious force of political correctness, that stops the
incoherent that this is something that republicans would dare to oppose. well, you re not the only one, let s listen to what lisa murkowski, republican senator, said on this. i have urged on multiple occasions that we move forward with the re-authorization of this very significant legislation. have urged the house to do the same last year. they failed to do that. you don t give up when the cause is right. karen finney, there is somebody who knows something about how this law would operate on tribal lands. that is right, this includes alaska. it is my understanding there could be provisions that even a non-native man in this situation on tribal lands who was being prosecuted by the tribal courts could still maintain their constitutional rights. that is something that obviously that is one of the major sticking points.
with the re-authorization of this very significant legislation. have urged the house to do the same last year. they failed to do that. you don t give up when the cause is right. karen finney, there is somebody who knows something about how this law would operate on tribal lands. that is right, this includes alaska. it is my understanding there could be provisions that even a non-native man in this situation on tribal lands who was being prosecuted by the tribal courts could still maintain their constitutional rights. that is something that obviously that is one of the major sticking points. i want to say i agree with ana marie. let s talk about this disgusting issue with the heritage foundation at a time when they re trying to say they re pro women, they re basically saying it is okay to abuse certain kinds of women.