voting rights act

Marriage Equality and White Supremacy

Jun 27, 2013
The danger in the Supreme Court's dismantling of the Defense of Marriage Act is of the LGBTQ community being seduced into the mainstream and forgetting the plight of the oppressed just as it becomes more broadly accepted.
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The Third Political Branch

Jun 27, 2013
We prefer to think of the Supreme Court as an institution apart from politics and above its struggles. In the wake of this week's decision gutting the heart of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, its actions must now be viewed through the prism of the conservative movement's five-decade-long quest for power.

Gutting the Voting Rights Act

Jun 26, 2013
No matter how you parse it, the Supreme Court’s decision Tuesday in Shelby County v Holder is a constitutional train wreck of historic proportions But unlike most such disasters, this is one we saw coming No matter how you parse it, the Supreme Court’s decision Tuesday in Shelby County v.